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Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata Publisher Comments To this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature. As he chronicles the affair between a wealthy dilettante and the mountain geisha who... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - 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: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Stranger 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) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa Publisher Comments Set in the 1860s, The Leopard tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. The dramatic sweep and richness of observation, the seamless intertwining of public and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Soul Mountain by Xingjian Gao Publisher Comments In 1983 Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death. But six weeks later, a second examination revealed the cancer was gone, and he was thrown back into the world of the... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.50 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: $5.95 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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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All the Names by Jose Saramago 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... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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The House of the Spirits 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) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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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: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Will and Testament of Senhor Da Silva Araujo by Germano Almeida Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lovers of Algeria by Anouar Benmalek Publisher Comments A breathless story of love and survival in war-torn Algeria-past and present The devil has entered our country, and his footprints are everywhere. Nine-year-old Jallal is old enough to know that his life in Algeria is precarious at best. Having run away... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima Publisher Comments Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mr. Mani by A. B. Yehoshua Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Publisher Comments The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Vagabond by Colette Publisher Comments Thirty-three years-old and recently divorced, Renee Nere has begun a new life on her own, supporting herself as a music-hall artist. Maxime, a rich and idle bachelor, intrudes on her independent existence and offers his love and the comforts of marriage.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Notes From Underground (04 Edition) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Publisher Comments A collection of powerful stories by one of the masters of Russian literature, illustrating the author's thoughts on political philosophy, religion and above all, humanity.... (read more) Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Three-Arched Bridge by Ismail Kadare Publisher Comments Set amid the impending chaos of the medieval Balkans, this chilling tour de force by Albania's greatest living writer is at once a superbly realized work of historical fiction and a Kafkaesque parable of the barbarism currently sweeping its author's... (read more) List Price $17.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Poems of Akhmatova: Izbrannye Stikhi by Anna Akhmatova Publisher Comments Witness to the international and domestic chaos of the first half of the twentieth century, Anna Akhmatova (1888-1966) chronicled Russia's troubled times in poems of sharp beauty and intensity. Her genius is now universally acknowledged, and recent... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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