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Amsterdam Noir by René Appel (Editor); Josh Pachter
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir Ser.
Walter van den Berg's "Get Rich Quick" was named the recipient of the inaugural Literatuurprijs Nieuw-West award "Every book in the Noir series serves as an introduction to a place. Besides the crime, the series and its editors have made it a point to address things like economic infrastructure, gentrif ...Show more
Beirut Noir by Iman Humaydan (Editor); Michelle Hartman (Translator); Zena El Khalil (Contribution by)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir Ser.
"Haunting" stories about crimes that are "often submerged in the greater tragedy of a beautiful city constantly torn within and without by violence" (Publishers Weekly). Beirut is a city both urban and rural, a city of violence and forgiveness, memory and forgetfulness, war and peace. This short story ...Show more
Bronx Noir by S. J. Rozan (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir Ser.
Fiction by Marlon James, Kevin Baker, and more: "Captures the immense diversity . . . from the mean streets of the South Bronx to affluent Riverdale" (Publishers Weekly). Set amid landmarks like Yankee Stadium and the Bronx Zoo, in crowded streets or leafy enclaves, this collection of crime and suspens ...Show more
Buenos Aires Noir by Ernesto Mallo (Editor)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir Ser.
"A good introduction is Buenos Aires Noir, in the ever-reliable Akashic Noir series, edited by the novelist Ernesto Mallo. Mallo himself is a playwright, script writer and crime novelist with the Superintendent Lascano series, a couple of which have been translated into English."--CrimeReads, included i ...Show more
Chicago Noir - The Classics by Joe Meno (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir Ser.
"In this superior entry in Akashic's noir series, Meno offers nearly a century of Chicago crime fiction....Familiar bylines abound: Max Allan Collins, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Sherwood Anderson, Fredric Brown, Patricia Highsmith (with an excerpt from her novel The Price of Salt), Stewart M. Kamins ...Show more
Copenhagen Noir by Bo Tao Michaelis
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir
Joining Rome, Paris, Istanbul, London and Dublin as European hosts of the Akashic Noir series, Copenhagen Noir features brand-new stories from a top-notch crew of Danish writers, with several Swedish and Norwegian writers thrown into the mix. This volume definitively reveals why Scandinavian crime ficti ...Show more
D. C. Noir 2 - The Classics by George Pelecanos (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir Ser.
Classic reprints from: Edward P. Jones, George Pelecanos, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, James Grady, Julian Mayfield, Marita Golden, Elizabeth Hand, Julian Mazor, Ward Just, Jean Toomer, Roach Brown, Larry Neal, and others. George Pelecanos is an independent film producer, the r ...Show more
Delhi Noir by Hirsh Sawhney (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir Ser.
"This book is a chance to get a fix on some of India's best crime writers" (The Globe and Mail, Toronto). These fourteen original stories, from some of India's most outstanding literary talents, take you into a world of sex in parks, male prostitution, and vigilante rickshaw drivers. Set in a city plag ...Show more
Haiti Noir - The Classics by Edwidge Danticat (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir Ser.
Edwidge Danticat's short story from Haiti Noir 2: The Classics, "The Port-au-Prince Marriage Special," was included in Ms. Magazine's Fall 2013 issue. "A worthy sequel that skillfully uses a popular genre to help us better understand an often frustratingly complex and indecipherable society."--Miami Her ...Show more
Helsinki Noir by James Thompson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir
The excitement around Scandinavian crime fiction has focused largely on Sweden, but Finland - as poignantly revealed here - is equally dark, grisly and strong in the noir department. Helsinki's endless bays and islands offer a killer plenty of places to dump a body and, because winter days can often con ...Show more
Hong Kong Noir by Jason Y. Ng; Susan Blumberg-Kason
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir Ser.
"Hong Kong Noir digs below the financial centre's gleaming surface to unearth stories of the city's ghosts and spirits...The stories touch on major points in Hong Kong modern history: the horrors of Japanese occupation, post-war poverty, the economic boom under the British, the city's return to Chinese ...Show more
Los Angeles Noir by Denise Hamilton
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir
Los Angeles is the birthplace of noir. Maybe it's the overwhelming shadow cast by Hollywood, the blur of artifice and reality, the possibility of shucking off the past like last year's dress and reinventing yoursefl beyond your wildest dreams. Maybe it's the desperation that descends when the dream goes ...Show more