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Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
by Michel Foucault
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Don Quixote
by Cervantes and Edith Grossman
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Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers)
by Julio Cortazar
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Platform
by Michel Houellebecq
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The Liberated Bride
by A B Yehoshua
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No Exit and Three Other Plays
by Jean Paul Sartre
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Periodic Table (84 Edition)
by Primo Levi
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Blindness
by Jose Saramago
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The Conference of The Birds (Penguin Classics)
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I Saw Ramallah (00 Edition)
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The Collected Poems: Revised Bilingual Edition
by Federico García Lorca
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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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He Who Searches
by Luisa Valenzuela
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Drowned Book Ecstatic & Earthy Reflectio
by Rumi
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Stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Duino Elegies: A Bilingual Edition
by Rainer Maria Rilke
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