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Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata Publisher Comments Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer’s masterpiece: a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 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 the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Saul Bellow Synopsis A chronicle of success and failure, this work is Bellow's tale of the writer's life in America. When Humboldt dies a failure in a seedy New York hotel, Charlie Citrine coping with the tribulations of his own success, begins to realize the significance of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 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: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan Staff Pick What an epic! Riotous writing sprawls through years and incarnations. Infamous characters, including Mo Yan himself! Incredibly imaginative, honest, and filled with beautiful emotion.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blindness by Jose Saramago Publisher Comments The late Nobel laureates final novel, a radical retelling of the Old Testament "Reading the Portuguese writer José Saramago, one quickly senses the presence of a master." Christian Science Monitor "Saramago is the most tender of writers...with a... (read more) List Price $15.00 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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa Publisher Comments Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - 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 $15.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Mercy (Vintage International) by Toni Morrison Publisher Comments A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas... (read more) List Price $15.00 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) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 Splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible . . . A contemporary love story that explores the mores of the urban 1960s--and 70s and 80s.--The New York Times Book Review Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 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 Prizewinning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fateless by Imre Kertesz Publisher Comments One of Publishers Weekly's Fifty Best Books of 1992!... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin (New York Review Books Classics) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments In 1973, the film director Miguel Littín fled Chile after a U.S.-supported military coup toppled the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende. The new dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, instituted a reign of terror and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Raised from the Ground by Jose Saramago Staff Pick One of the late Nobel laureate's earlier novels, Raised from the Ground was originally published in Saramago's native Portuguese in 1980 but has only now been posthumously translated into English. Set in the Alentejo region of Portugal, the novel follows... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa Publisher Comments A painstakingly researched and lively novel about a neglected human rights pioneer by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Dossier K: A Memoir by Imre Kertesz Publisher Comments The first and only memoir from the Nobel Prize-winning author, in the form of an illuminating, often funny, and often combative interview — conducted by the author of himself. Dossier K is Imre Kertész’s response to the hasty... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Home (Vintage International) by Toni Morrison Publisher Comments When Frank Money joined the army to escape his too-small world, he left behind his cherished and fragile little sister, Cee. After the war, his shattered life has no purpose until he hears that Cee is in danger. Frank is a modern Odysseus returning to a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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