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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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By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano Publisher Comments In a deathbed confession a Jesuit priest pours out self-justifying dark memories of Opus Dei and Pinochet.... (read more) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper
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Arabian Nights and Days 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 $15.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Publisher Comments Called the greatest of short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition. Now, thirty of his best tales from the major periods of his creative life are available... (read more) Your price: $13.00 New - Trade Paper
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood 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) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Independent People by Halldor Laxness 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 $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Name is Red 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 $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass Publisher Comments Acclaimed as the greatest German novel written since the end of World War II, The Tin Drum is the autobiography of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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So Long a Letter (African Writers Series #248) by Mariama Ba Publisher Comments It is not only the fact that this is the most deeply felt presentation of the female condition in African fiction that gives distinction to this novel, but also its undoubted literary qualities, which seem to place it among the best novels that have come... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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