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The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems by Tomas Transtromer Publisher Comments In day's first hours consciousness can grasp the world as the hand grips a sun-warmed stone. Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of Tomas Transtromer has had a profound influence around the world, an influence that has steadily grown and has... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Home by Toni Morrison Publisher Comments America’s most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man’s desperate search for himself in a world... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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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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Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.50 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: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Poems New and Collected by Wislawa Szymborska Publisher Comments Described by Robert Hass as "unquestionably one of the great living European poets" and by Charles Simic as "one of the finest poets living today," Szymborska mesmerizes her readers with poetry that captivates their minds and captures their hearts. This... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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In the Heart of the Country by J. M. Coetzee Publisher Comments On a remote farm in South Africa, the protagonist of J. M. Coetzee's fierce and passionate novel watches the life from which she has been excluded. Ignored by her callous father, scorned and feared by his servants, she is a bitterly intelligent woman... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Snow by Orhan Pamuk Publisher Comments Dread, yearning, identity, intrigue, the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism–these are the elements that Orhan Pamuk anneals in this masterful, disquieting novel. An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway Publisher Comments The famous "Nick Adams" stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent -- a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk Publisher Comments It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal and Sibel, children of two prominent families, are about to become engaged. But when Kemal encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation, he becomes enthralled. And once they violate... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Saul Bellow Publisher Comments Bellow's glorious, spirited story of an eccentric American millionaire who finds a home of sorts in deepest Africa.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Four Quartets (Harvest Book) by T S Eliot Publisher Comments The last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in “The Waste Land.” Here, in four linked... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago Staff Pick Widely considered to be one of the most accomplished works from Portugal's only Nobel laureate, Baltasar and Blimunda is a heart-wrenching epic of prodigious scope. Set in the early years of the eighteenth century, the story seamlessly intertwines... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hunger Angel by M Publisher Comments A masterful new novel from the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize, hailed for depicting the "landscape of the dispossessed" with "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose" (Nobel Prize Committee) It was an icy morning in January 1945 when the... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Hunger by Knut Hamsun Publisher Comments A true classic of modern literature that has been described as “one of the most disturbing novels in existence” (Time Out), Hunger is the story of a Norwegian artist who wanders the streets, struggling on the edge of starvation. As hunger... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Letters to a Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa and Natasha Wimmer Publisher Comments Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe—Borges, Bierce, Céline, Cortázar, Faulkner,... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee Publisher Comments For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 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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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 $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Under the Glacier by Halldor Laxness and Magnus Magnusson and Susan Sontag Publisher Comments Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness’s Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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