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Red Spectres: Russian Gothic Tales from the Twentieth Century by Muireann Maguire Publisher Comments In the first decades of the twentieth century, gothic fiction flourished in Russia, despite official efforts to stamp it out. Yet few of these stories have been translated or published outside Russia. This rare collection includes eleven vintage tales by... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Great Modern European Short Stories by Douglas Angus Publisher Comments Included in this brilliant collection are twenty-five stories of twentieth-century Europe by some of the greatest writers of the era. Unique in their range of insights, these pieces reflect the vast upheavals of their time, etching o fascinating and very... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Azalea 2: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture by David R Mccann Publisher Comments Special Feature: Inside North Korea, edited by Heinz Insu Fenkl. Includes excerpts from a graphic novel by Guy Delisle and a comic book by Cho Pyōng-kwōn and Rim Walyong; photographs by Peter Sobolev; poetry by O Yōng-jae, Li Chong-d&... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction by N Holden Publisher Comments A groundbreaking volume from Lamda Award-winning editors Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle, The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction presents a range of literary voices--from twenty-seven countries spanning six continents--and offers... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Great Russian Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) by Paul Negri Publisher Comments Twelve powerful works of fiction, including Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades," Gogol's "The Overcoat," Turgenev's "The District Doctor," Dostoyevsky's "White Nights," Tolstoy's "How Much Land Does a Man Need?," plus "The Clothes Mender" by Leskov... (read more) List Price $4.00 Your price: $2.50 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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So That You Can Know Me: An Anthology of Pakistani Women Writers (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European) by Yasmin Hameed Publisher Comments Ghulam Mohammad, successful hotelier and shop owner, wants to sell up and buy a church - a derelict church in a run-down corner of Birmingham - and convert it into a mosque. But his son has other plans. With an eye on his temporal rather than spiritual... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Terrestrial Intelligence: International Fiction Now from New Directions by Barbara Epler Publisher Comments New Directions, the discoverer of the greatest of the great contemporary world writers--such as W. G. Sebald and Roberto Bolano, Inger Christensen and Bei Dao, Victor Pelevin and Javier Marias--now puts them on display in a showcase anthology. <BR>"... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $1.95 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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English by Margaret Atwood Publisher Comments One of Canada's leading writers and the dean of Canadian anthologists have pooled their talents to produce this lasting tribute to the great variety of talent Canadian writers have brought to the genre. The team of Atwood and Weaver have compiled an... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Caine Prize for African Writing 2012 (Caine Prize: Annual Prize for African Writing) by Caine Prize Caine Prize Publisher Comments The Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa's leading literary prize. For over ten years it has supported and promoted contemporary African writing. Keeping true to its motto "Africa will always bring something new," the prize has helped launch the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women by Muneeza Shamsie Publisher Comments 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, travelers and explorers, seasoned... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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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: $4.95 Used - 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... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature by Amit Chaudhuri Publisher Comments In recent years American readers have been thrilling to the work of such Indian writers as Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth. Now this extravagant and wonderfully discerning anthology unfurls the full diversity of Indian literature from the 1850s to the... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Caribbean New Wave: Contemporary Short Stories (Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series) by Stewart Brown Publisher Comments This anthology provides readers with a sampler of the energy, commitment, and sheer brilliance of a whole new generation of Caribbean writers.... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $4.95 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Beirut 39: New Writing from the Arab World by Samuel Shimon Publisher Comments Beirut is the 2009 World Book Capital, as designated by UNESCO, and at the center of the festivities, in collaboration with the world-renowned Hay Festival, is a competition to identify the thirty-nine most promising young talents in Arab literature. The... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Writing Black Britain, 1948-98: An Interdisciplinary Anthology by James Procter Publisher Comments The first anthology of its kind, this timely collection brings together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and documents from across the post-war period within a single volume. Spanning half a century, this rich archive of... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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