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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Publisher Comments Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwos fall from... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami From Powells.com Haruki Murakami is generally considered the greatest Japanese writer of his generation, but at times he seems more in tune with the culture of the West than of his native country. Throughout his work, the food, music, movies, and literature... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Publisher Comments With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as "the 21st century daughter of Chinua Achebe." Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she recreates a seminal moment in... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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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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The Street of Crocodiles (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Bruno Schulz Staff Pick "Schulz is a master of metaphor, and his lush, poetic sentences burst with sensory detail. He transforms the pedestrian — salesgirls, brooms, bolts of cloth — into fantastic apparitions, lit with significance and color....Schulz's stories...are... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal Publisher Comments In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-World War II Prague, who rises to wealth only to lose everything with the onset of Communism, Bohumil Hrabal takes us on a tremendously funny and satirical... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Black Book (Vintage International) by Orhan Pamuk Publisher Comments A New Translation and Afterword by Maureen Freely Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel–loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband or Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Cel... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bone People by Keri Hulme Publisher Comments In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes, part Maori, part European, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor — a speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine Staff Pick Upon publication in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night at once scandalized and invigorated French Literature, and has continued to influence authors of many nationalities to this day. It's the story of Bardamu, a man who continually finds himself at... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie Publisher Comments In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the day India proclaimed its independence from Great Britain, one thousand and one children are born — each of whom, though forced to struggle through hardships... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Heart So White by Javier Marias Publisher Comments Javier Marias's A Heart So White chronicles with unnerving insistence the relentless power of the past. Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he begins to consider the past anew, and begins to ponder what he... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Dirt Music by Tim Winton Staff Pick Undoubtedly one of the best novels published over the last several years, Dirt Music takes place in the wilds of Australia's West Coast. It follows the adventures (and misadventures) of a young poacher as he runs afoul of his village's headman, and is... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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