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Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
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Blindness
by Jose Saramago
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The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
by Franz Kafka and Breon Mitchell
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
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My Name is Red
by Orhan Pamuk
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
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Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
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Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy #1)
by Naguib Mahfouz
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Chapel Road (Netherlands Literature)
by Louis Paul Boon
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The Tin Drum
by Gunter Grass
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The Captive Mind
by Czeslaw Milosz
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All the Names
by Jose Saramago
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Season of Migration to the North
by Tayeb Salih
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Winter Sleep
by Kenzo Kitakata
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I Saw Ramallah (00 Edition)
by Mourid Barghouti
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Leopard (60 Edition)
by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
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The Lovers of Algeria
by Anouar Benmalek
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Collected Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
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Drowned Book Ecstatic & Earthy Reflectio
by Rumi
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