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The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
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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)
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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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Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy #1)
by Naguib Mahfouz
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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)
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
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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)
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Blindness
by Jose Saramago
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A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to... ( read more)
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (79 Edition)
by Italo Calvino
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One of the most inventive books in recent decades, Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler has a nearly animate quality (or barely inanimate quality); its succession of unwinding mysteries suggests what it might be like to find oneself in a... ( read more)
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
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Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black... ( read more)
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Don Quixote
by Cervantes and Edith Grossman
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Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the... ( read more)
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Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Showcasing Dostoyevsky's evolving outlook on man's fate, this collection presents his compelling works "White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" and selections from "The House of the Dead." Original.... ( read more)
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The Tin Drum
by Gunter Grass
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Acclaimed as the greatest German novel written since the end of World War II, The Tin Drum is the autobiography of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental... ( read more)
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The Flea Palace
by Elif Shafak
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"An enchanting combination of compassion and cruelty . . . Elif Shafak is the best author to come out of Turkey in the last decade."-Orhan Pamuk The setting is a stately residence in Istanbul, built by Russian noble migr Pavel Antipov for his wife... ( read more)
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Snow
by Orhan Pamuk
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From the acclaimed author of My Name is Red ("a sumptuous thriller" — John Updike; "chockful of sublimity and sin" — New York Times Book Review) comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings — for love, art, power, and God — set in... ( read more)
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Season of Migration to the North
by Tayeb Salih
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An Arabian Nights in reverse; the brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsessed with the mysterious West and a desire to bite the hand that has half-fed him, has led him to London and the beds of women with similar... ( read more)
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The Conference of Birds (Penguin Classics)
by Farid Ud Din Attar
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"Mantiq al-tayr" (the conference of the birds) is an elaborate allegory with many digressions. It describes how all the birds (human souls) set out in search of the Simurgh (the godhead). All but 30 die and the survivors realize that they themselves are... ( read more)
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Winter Sleep
by Kenzo Kitakata
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The legendary Japanese master?s Winter Sleep takes you into the hardboiled world of art — where ex-cons are philosophers, young lovers are combustible, and aesthetics is life.
Nakagi, an ex-con painter who has sequestered himself in a mountain... ( read more)
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The Collected Poems: Revised Bilingual Edition
by Federico García Lorca
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A revised edition of this major writer's complete poetical work. "And I who was walking with the earth at my waist, saw two snowy eagles and a naked girl. The one was the other and the girl was neither." — from "Qasida of the Dark Doves" Federico... ( read more)
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Give Me: Songs for Lovers
by Irina Denezhkina
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Shortlisted for Russia's national bestseller prize and translated into twelve languages, Give Me marks the debut of a literary wunderkind, a gifted writer with a fine-tuned ear and unforgettable voice. The stories in Give Me are bracingly authentic and... ( read more)
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The Last Will and Testament of Senhor Da Silva Araujo
by Germano Almeida
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Everyone in Cape Verde knows Senor da Silva. Successful entrepreneur, owner of the island's first automobile, a most serious, upright, and self-made businessman, Senor da Silva is the local success story. Born an orphan, he never married, he never... ( read more)
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Voices From Chernobyl (05 Edition)
by Svetlana Alexievich
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On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear accident in history occurred in Chernobyl. Although this was one of the most devastating tragedies ever, until now, no book has appeared in English giving the inside story of what happened to the people living in... ( read more)
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Leopard (60 Edition)
by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
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A classic of modern fiction. Set in the 1860s, THE LEOPARD is the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.... ( read more)
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