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The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky Publisher Comments Rosa Achmetowna is the outrageously nasty and wily narrator of this rollicking family saga from the author of Broken Glass Park. When she discovers that her seventeen-year-old daughter, "stupid Sulfia" is pregnant by an unknown man she does everything to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Artists' Wives by Alphonse Daudet Publisher Comments Fiction. Translated from the French. Introduction by Olivier Bernier. Notoriety, faithfulness, gossip, love and style are Alphonse Daudet's subjects in these little-known stories about the strained relations between artists and their spouses. Daudet... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blind Sunflowers by Alberto Mendez Publisher Comments In this beautifully translated account of loss and reconciliation set in the time of the Spanish Civil War, four subtly connected vignettes come together to form a cohesive narrative that underlines the horrors of the war in Spain. The stories are... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Walking on Dry Land by Denis Kehoe Publisher Comments Ana knows little about her birth mother: she knows that she gave Ana away. She has a photograph, too, found in her Father's belongings when she was a teenager. It might be her mother, but there are two women in it and she doesn't know whether it is a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Private Property (European Women Writers) by Paule Constant Publisher Comments When Tiffany Muranos parents, French expatriates in Africa, send her to a Catholic boarding school in France, her homeland feels nothing like home. In leaving colonial Africa, she loses the natural world, the people, and the animals she knows and loves... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Daalder's Chocolates by Philibert Schogt Publisher Comments Joop Daalder, Dutch immigrant, has been an outsider from the first. Raised in a family of intellectuals and musicians, for which food was of no interest, he developed his taste buds on the sly, finding his vocation and true happiness as an apprentice to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Landscape with Dog: And Other Stories by Ersi Sotiropoulos PW Review "Greek author Sotiropoulos (Zigzag Through the Bitter-Orange Trees) depicts the hollow, deceptive civility hidden within intimate relationships in this capably translated story collection featuring lovers, married couples, brothers and parents. In 'An... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Backslider by Sean Mcgrady Publisher Comments The setting is Belfast in the 1970s. In a city in which any storefront might unexpectedly explode, Marius Moonston, age 16, is out shopping. It's Saturday, and the streets are filled with danger and excitement--especially for Marius, whose pocket is... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Scale of Maps by Belen Gopegui Publisher Comments Sergio Prim is a staid, middle-aged geographer. The romantic advances of Brezo Varela, a lively young woman who shares his profession, induce a series of terrifying hallucinations from which he attempts to seek refuge by immersing himself in the quest... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Doghead by Morten Ramsland Publisher Comments Doghead is a highly imaginative, exuberant saga that follows three generations of a wildly dysfunctional Norwegian family. When Asger, the narrator, visits his dying grandma, he learns that contrary to popular belief, Grandpa was not a war hero... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Poem Strip (New York Review Books Classics) by Dino Buzzati Publisher Comments A New York Review Books Original Dino Buzzati is a luminary of the mid-twentieth-century Italian literary avant-garde and the author of The Tartar Steppe, a modern classic. He was also an accomplished visual artist. Poem Strip, from 1968, unites his... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Hoffman's Hunger by Leon De Winter PW Review "The pressures of politics and philosophy bring a Dutch diplomat to crisis in this 1990 novel that examines the ways internal angst plays out against external forces. Capping off an erratic career in the foreign service, Felix Hoffman lands in Prague a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The panther woman :five tales from the cassette recorder by Sarah Kirsch Publisher Comments The result of their collaboration is seen in "The Panther Woman," a performer's view of her exciting and exhausting life on the road; "Turbulent Years," the recollections of a political activity, imprisoned during World War II, who went on to become a... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Don Carlos and Giovanni by Thorvald Steen Publisher Comments Fiction. Translated from the Norweigian by James Anderson. In 1833 a young Englishman known as Don Carlos finds himself in Buenos Aires. He meets a casual laborer, Giovanni Graciani, from Italy. These two short penetrating novels recount Giovanni's... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hothouse by Wolfgang Koeppen Publisher Comments A masterpiece by a writer long neglected in America, The Hothouse created a literary stir when it appeared in hardcover. Evoking comparisons to works by James Joyce and Malcolm Lowry, it traces the final two days in the life of a minor German politician,... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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God's Gym by Leon De Winter Synopsis December 22, 2000 is a day of dramatic confluence in the life of Joop Koopman, a Dutchman living in California. It is the day he celebrates his daughter Miriam's seventeenth birthday, meets his old friend Philip - with whom he has been out of touch for... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Parson's Widow by Marja Liisa Vartio PW Review "This frugal novel from the Finnish Vartio (1924 — 1966), is set in a Finnish village ('near Viipuri') during the early 20th century. The mentally unstable title character, Adele, argues with her maid, Alma, about the fire that consumed the... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The disinherited by Michel Del Castillo List Price $10.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Honeymoon Bittermoon by Ramo Perez De Ayala Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Flaxfield by Stijn Streuvels List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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