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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 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 $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy #1) 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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz Publisher Comments The best known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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One Hundred Years of Solitude 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) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif Publisher Comments Banned in Saudia Arabia, this is a blistering look at Arab and American hypocrisy following the discovery of oil in a poor oasis community.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blindness 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: $7.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Discipline & Punish and The Birth of the Prison 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) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Liquidation by Imre Kertesz Publisher Comments A masterly new novel from the 2002 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature: the story of a Hungarian writer whose death forces his circle of friends to confront their own terrible moment in history. Ten years have passed since the fall of Communism. B. —... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Chapel Road (Netherlands Literature) by Louis Paul Boon Publisher Comments According to the author, Chapel Road "is the book about the childhood of Ondine [. . .] about her brother Valeer-Traleer with his monstrous head wobbling through life this way and that." But the book is about a lot more than that. It is also the story of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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