The Liberated Bride
by A B Yehoshua
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Yochanan Rivlin, a professor at Haifa University, is a man of boundless and often naive curiosity. His wife, Hagit, a district judge, is tolerant of almost everything but her husband's faults and prevarications. Frequent arguments aside, they are a well...
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Liquidation
by Imre Kertesz
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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. —...
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Drowned Book Ecstatic & Earthy Reflectio
by Rumi
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Bahauddin, Rumi's father, was not only a major force in the development of Islamic spirituality, but also deeply influential in his son's life. This delightful and provocative collection reveals the depth of thirteenth-century Sufi mystical wisdom and...
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The Last Will and Testament of Senhor Da Silva Araujo
by Germano Almeida
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Everyone in Cape Verde knows Senor da Silva. Successful entrepreneur, owner of the island's first automobile, a most serious, upright, and self-made businessman, Senor da Silva is the local success story. Born an orphan, he never married, he never...
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The Tower of Glass
by Ivan Angelo
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The five interlocking stories in The Tower of Glass create a singular, powerful account of a nation in turmoil--and a prophetic warning about an oppressive government's need to control not just the society but the mind. Through symbolism, wry humor, and...
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Mr. Mani
by A. B. Yehoshua
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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...
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A Dream in Polar Fog
by Yuri Rytkheu
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"A Dream in Polar Fog" is at once a cross-cultural journey, an ethnographic fable and chronicle of the Chukchi people and a breathtaking adventure story. It is the story of John MacLellan, a young Canadian sailor who is left behind by his ship, stranded...
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Chapel Road (Netherlands Literature)
by Louis Paul Boon
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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...
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Hiroshima Notes
by Kenzaburo Oe
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Hiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature. Oe's account of the lives of the many victims of Hiroshima and the valiant efforts of those who cared for them, both...
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