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Reading the World



Reading the World


Western Europe
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Invisible Cities
Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino
Staff Pick
In Invisible Cities, Marco Polo and Kublai Khan tell stories of the cities they've seen, imagined, dreamt, and remembered. The result is a diaphanous fantasy alternating between mirage and memory, like bridges slipping through river fog, or minarets... (read more)

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Middle East
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
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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)

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Asia
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My Name is Red
My Name is Red
by Orhan Pamuk
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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)

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Latin America
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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)

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Africa
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Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy #1)
Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy #1)
by Naguib Mahfouz
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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)

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Eastern Europe and Russia
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The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
by Franz Kafka and Breon Mitchell
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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)

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Western Europe
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Blindness
Blindness
by Jose Saramago
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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)

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Asia
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
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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)

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Chekov: The Four Major Plays
Chekov: The Four Major Plays
by Anton Pavlo Chekhov
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In these fresh, vibrant new translations of Chekhov's four greatest plays--Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and Cherry Orchard--the brilliant theatrical translator Curt Columbus recaptures the master's open-ended simplicity. Curt Columbus loves... (read more)

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Used Books
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Embroideries
Embroideries
by Marjane Satrapi
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By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, this book's stories lift the veil off the real, private lives of Iranian women and--perfectly captured in Satrapi's simple, beguiling drawings--reveal the connections between women everywhere.... (read more)

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Bestsellers

Monday, November 9, 2009
Invisible Cities
  1. Invisible Cities
    by Italo Calvino
  2. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    by Haruki Murakami
  3. My Name is Red
    by Orhan Pamuk
  4. Blindness
    by Jose Saramago
  5. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
    by Marjane Satrapi
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