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Copenhagen Noir (Akashic Noir) by Bo Michaelis Publisher Comments "The latest entry in the publisher's series (41 and counting) proves the resilience of, and market for, these locale noirs. Editor Michaëlis, a Danish book critic, is both scholarly and insightful in the introduction and outlines how the stories... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain by Words Without Borders Staff Pick This valuable collection of stories, memoir, poems, images, and reportage from former Soviet Bloc countries gives an intimate glimpse of how life has changed — for better and for worse — since 1989. The texts are visually anchored with images of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia by Jeff Parker and Mikhail Iossel Publisher Comments Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia showcases the work of Russian writers born in the twentieth century whose entire adult lives have been spent in post-Soviet circumstances. These stories show the range of aesthetics and subject matter the young... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Anth. of Japanese Lit. (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European) by Donald Keene Synopsis The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poetry and novels of the seventeenth century, find a place in... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story by Anne Enright Synopsis Lyrical, dark, comic or iconoclastic, the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight. Anne Enright has brought together a dazzling collection of Irish stories by authors born in the twentieth century - from Mary Lavin and Frank O'Connor... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories (97 Edition) by Roberto (ed.) Gonzalez Echevarria Publisher Comments When Latin American writers burst onto the world literary scene in the now famous "Boom" of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had invented itself over night out of thin air. Not only was the writing extraordinary but its sudden and... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond by Tina Chang Publisher Comments Language for a New Century celebrates the artistic and cultural forces flourishing today in the East, bringing together an unprecedented selection of works by South Asian, East Asian, Middle Eastern, and Central Asian poets as well as poets living in the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Best European Fiction (Best European Fiction) by Aleksandar Hemon Publisher Comments Now in its third year, the Best European Fiction series has become a mainstay in the literary landscape, each year featuring new voices from throughout Europe alongside more established names such as Hilary Mantel, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Ingo Schulze... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction From Contemporary China (08 Edition) by Shouhua Qi Publisher Comments “Modern Chinese fiction . . . looks to have made a great leap towards the bookshelves of [Western] readers.”—Guardian Hugely popular in China, flash fiction is poised to be the most exciting new development in contemporary Chinese... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mendeleev Rock: Two Short Novels from Debut (New Russian Writing) by Andrei Kuzechkin Publisher Comments These two novels by Debut Prize finalists present typical provincial towns in central Russia and a gallery of modern-day types: radically minded youths, ruthless thugs, drunken intellectuals, the local elite, and failed fortune seekers. The heroes are... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Perverted by Language: Fiction Inspired by the Fall by Peter Wild Publisher Comments Mechanical ducks, shark women that taste of licorice, perverted sexual shenanigans in cramped office spaces, double-crossing Nazi apologists, bald-headed cultural subversives, and celebrity deer-culling-this is the wonderful and frightening world of... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader (Viking Portable Library) by George Gibian Publisher Comments The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of world literature as Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman"; Gogol's "The Overcoat"; Turgenev's novel First Love; Chekhov's... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Paris Tales: A Literary Tour of the City by Helen Constantin Publisher Comments If you've never been to Paris, here is your chance to experience it; if you have been there, here is your chance to return. Paris Tales is a highly evocative collection of stories by French and Francophone writers who have been inspired by the mystery... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women by Muneeza Shamsie Publisher Comments Cultural Writing. Middle Eastern Studies. The only English-language anthology by Pakistani women published in the United States, AND THE WORLD CHANGED goes beyond the sensational headlines to reveal the stories of Pakistani women. Immigrants and refugees,... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Afrocuba: An Anthology of Cuban Writing on Race, Politics and Culture by Pedro Perez Sarduy Publisher Comments This anthology looks at the AfroCuban experience through the eyes of the island's writers, scholars and artists. A rich portrait of AfroCuba--one of the most vibrant and least well-documented of the black Caribbean diasporas.--Stuart Hall An insightful... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Anansi Reader: Forty Years of Very Good Books by Lynn Coady Synopsis In 1967, then-unknown writers David Godfrey and Dennis Lee founded a small press they grandly named “The House of Anansi,” after an African trickster spider-god. Their goal was to publish groundbreaking new Canadian work in three core genres... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tablet and Pen (11 Edition) by Reza Aslan Publisher Comments The countries that stretch along the broad horizons of the Middle East--from Morocco to Iran, from Turkey to Pakistan--boast different cultures, different languages, and different religions. Yet the literary landscape of this dynamic part of the world... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $17.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Modern Hebrew Literature #05: Israel at 60: Retrospective & Renewal by Ory Bernstein Synopsis For more than twenty years, Modern Hebrew Literature has helped English speakers keep abreast of Israel's dynamic literary scene. Each issue features translated excerpts of novels, short sorties, articles, interviews, poetry and book reviews recently... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Best European Fiction by Aleksandar Hemon Publisher Comments Historically, English-language readers have been great fans of European literature, and names like Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, and Thomas Mann are so familiar we hardly think of them as foreign at all. What those writers brought to English-language... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East (Words Without Borders Anthologies) by Reza Aslan Publisher Comments The countries that stretch along the broad horizons of the Middle East--from Morocco to Iran, from Turkey to Pakistan--boast different cultures, different languages, and different religions. Yet the literary landscape of this dynamic part of the world... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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