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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) Your Price $15.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used 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) Your Price $7.95 (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 $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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 Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher Comments The master work by the 1988 Nobel Prize winner in literature, this stunning book, which introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1990s, is "a majestic and capacious accomplishment"... (read more) Your Price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Publisher Comments Showcasing Dostoyevsky's evolving outlook on man's fate, this collection presents his compelling works "White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" and selections from "The House of the Dead." Original.... (read more) Your Price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) 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 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 $7.50 (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
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by Jorge Luis Borges
Powells.com Staff Pick In 1938, Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges suffered a severe head wound that left him near death and unable to speak. Though he made a complete recovery, the experience appears to have tapped into the author's deepest creative reservoirs, for... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your Price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Italo Calvino Publisher Comments In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo — Tartar emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts the emperor with tales of the cities he has seen in his travels around... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Jose Saramago
Powells.com Staff Pick "You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have," reads the epigraph of All the Names, a captivating and gorgeously written allegorical tale of identity penned by the illustrious José Saramago, which concerns the seemingly... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Gao Xingjian
Powells.com Staff Pick Born in 1940, Gao Xingjian was still a young man when China's decade long Cultural Revolution began in 1966. This disastrous period represented China's bizarre attempt to create a utopian society by both erasing its extensive history and obliterating... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Orhan Pamuk
Publisher Comments At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Kenzaburo Oe
Powells.com Staff Pick If you like your books to be a punch in the face, then consider A Personal Matter a good nose bleed of a novel. This is a depiction of human frailty, alienation, despair, and ultimate triumph. Coming to grips with the narrator proved to be quite a... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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