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by Marjane Satrapi  
Publisher Comments Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Haruki Murakami
From Powells.com Haruki Murakami is generally considered the greatest Japanese writer of his generation, but at times he seems more in tune with the culture of the West than of his native country. Throughout his work, the food, music, movies, and literature... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your Price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Isabel Allende Publisher Comments Here, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave... (read more) Your Price $4.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
by Jose Saramago
Publisher Comments A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Franz Kafka and Breon Mitchell Publisher Comments Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get... (read more) Your Price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Naguib Mahfouz Publisher Comments A renowned Nobel Prize-winning novelist refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories, made new by the magical... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Albert Camus
Publisher Comments Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's extraordinary first novel, The Stranger (L'Etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a... (read more) Your Price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Italo Calvino
Powells.com Staff Pick For those with an amorous affair with books, this may, perhaps, be the ultimate love letter to the reader. Calvino's novel, or more precisely, his book of ten interrelated stories, is both masterfully created and startlingly unique. Told alternately in... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Roberto Bolaño Publisher Comments In a deathbed confession a Jesuit priest pours out self-justifying dark memories of Opus Dei and Pinochet.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Publisher Comments One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Halldor K. Laxness
Powells.com Staff Pick "Independent People is epic and thorough, covering the sweep of generations as well as detailed hours ticking by during sleepless nights, ambling walks around the plains. It is a novel of contrasts, especially in its nuanced exploration of character... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Yasunari Kawabata Publisher Comments To this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature. As he chronicles the affair between a wealthy dilettante and the mountain geisha who... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Elfriede Jelinek
Publisher Comments Erika Kohut teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory by day. But by night she trawls the porn shows of Vienna while her mother, whom she loves and hates in equal measure, waits up for her. Into this emotional pressure-cooker bounds music student and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Michel Foucault Publisher Comments In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his... (read more) Your Price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by A. B. Yehoshua Publisher Comments A six-generation family saga, extending from nineteenth-century Europe to British-occupied Palestine to German-occupied Crete and ultimately to modern Israel. Named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, chosen as one of the 50 Best Books of 1992 by... (read more) Your Price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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