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Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Staff Pick In Invisible Cities, Marco Polo and Kublai Khan tell stories of the cities they've seen, imagined, dreamt, and remembered. The result is a diaphanous fantasy alternating between mirage and memory, like bridges slipping through river fog, or minarets... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Stranger by Albert Camus Publisher Comments 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) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blindness by Jose Saramago Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text by Franz Kafka and Breon Mitchell Publisher Comments Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book A Time Magazine “Best Comix of the Year” A San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times Best-seller Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapis memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk Publisher Comments At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino Staff Pick 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) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Staff Pick In Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami brings the Oedipus legend to contemporary Japan. The reader is treated to his musings on art, culture, the loss of innocence and...cats, in his patented, magic-realist way. Easily his best novel translated into... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy #1) by Naguib Mahfouz Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chapel Road (Netherlands Literature) by Louis Paul Boon Publisher Comments According to the author, Chapel Road "is the book about the childhood of Ondine [. . .] about her brother Valeer-Traleer with his monstrous head wobbling through life this way and that." But the book is about a lot more than that. It is also the story of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass Publisher Comments 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) List Price $8.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz Publisher Comments The best known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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All the Names by Jose Saramago Staff Pick "You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have," reads the epigraph of All the Names, a captivating and gorgeously written allegorical tale of identity penned by the illustrious José Saramago, which concerns... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih Publisher Comments A beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan.... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Winter Sleep by Kenzo Kitakata Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Saw Ramallah (00 Edition) by Mourid Barghouti Publisher Comments Winner of the prestigious Naguib Mahfouz Medal, this fierce and moving work is an unparalleled rendering of the human aspects of the Palestinian predicament. Barred from his homeland after 1967s Six-Day War, the poet Mourid Barghouti spent thirty years... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Leopard (60 Edition) by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa Publisher Comments Set in the 1860s, The Leopard tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. The dramatic sweep and richness of observation, the seamless intertwining of public and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lovers of Algeria by Anouar Benmalek Publisher Comments A breathless story of love and survival in war-torn Algeria-past and present The devil has entered our country, and his footprints are everywhere. Nine-year-old Jallal is old enough to know that his life in Algeria is precarious at best. Having run away... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges Publisher Comments The complete fiction of Jorge Luis Borges, whom Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa calls “the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes” A New York Times Notable BookThe International Bestseller For the first time in English... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Drowned Book Ecstatic & Earthy Reflectio by Rumi Publisher Comments Bahauddin, Rumi's father, was not only a major force in the development of Islamic spirituality, but also deeply influential in his son's life. This delightful and provocative collection reveals the depth of thirteenth-century Sufi mystical wisdom and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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