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Middle East
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapis memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran... (read more)

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Western Europe
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The Stranger
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
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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)

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Asia
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Silence
Silence
by Shusaku Endo
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A novel of faith and doubt set in medieval Japan. Endo relates the history of the Japanese Christians who were persecuted after the rise to power of the samurai in the 17th century, and in particular the plight of Japanese priests who were forced to... (read more)

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Eastern Europe and Russia
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The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Introduction by Simon Franklin; Translation by Michael Glenny From the Hardcover edition.... (read more)

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Africa
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Season of Migration to the North
Season of Migration to the North
by Tayeb Salih
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A beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan.... (read more)

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Latin America
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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)

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Western Europe
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The Rings of Saturn
The Rings of Saturn
by W. G. Sebald
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"Ostensibly a record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia," as Robert McCrum in the London Observer noted, The Rings of Saturn "is also a brilliantly allusive study of England's imperial past and the nature of decline and fall, of loss and... (read more)

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Western Europe
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Blindness
Blindness
by Jose Saramago
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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)

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Sale Books
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C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems. (Revised Ed.) (Princeton Modern Greek Studies)
C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems. (Revised Ed.) (Princeton Modern Greek Studies)
by C P Cavafy
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C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems... (read more)

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Used Books
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Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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One of the great classics of world literature, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is the story of Raskolnikov, a young man who — unable to complete his studies — commits what he calls "justifiable murder." What ensues is as demanding and illuminating... (read more)

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Bestsellers

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February 16, 2012
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
  1. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
    by Marjane Satrapi
  2. The Stranger
    by Albert Camus
  3. View With a Grain of Sand (95 Edition)
    by Wislawa Szymborska
  4. Blindness
    by Jose Saramago
  5. The Leopard
    by Guiseppe Lampedusa
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