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by Jose Saramago  
Publisher Comments 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)  List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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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 $9.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jorge Luis Borges
Powells.com Staff Pick In 1938, Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges suffered a severe head wound that left him near death and unable to speak. Though he made a complete recovery, the experience appears to have tapped into the author's deepest creative reservoirs, for... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jose Saramago
Powells.com 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 the seemingly... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Publisher Comments 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) Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by A B Yehoshua Publisher Comments Yochanan Rivlin, a professor at Haifa University, is a man of boundless and often naive curiosity. His wife, Hagit, a district judge, is tolerant of almost everything but her husband's faults and prevarications. Frequent arguments aside, they are a well... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marcel Proust and Lydia Davis
Publisher Comments New audiences are introduced to what has been called the finest novel of the 20th century with this new translation. "A sensitive and direct translation, one that will enable us to discover, or rediscover, the joys of the novel."--Charles Messud... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Farid Ud Din Attar Synopsis "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) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxiii]-xxiv).... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Isabel Allende Publisher Comments 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) List Price $7.99 Your price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Marjane Satrapi
Publisher Comments 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) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Italo Calvino
Powells.com Staff Pick For those with an amorous affair with books, this may, perhaps, be the ultimate love letter to the reader. Calvino's novel, or more precisely, his book of ten interrelated stories, is both masterfully created and startlingly unique. Told alternately in... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Italo Calvino Publisher Comments In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo — Tartar emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts the emperor with tales of the cities he has seen in his travels around... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Xingjian Gao
Powells.com Staff Pick Born in 1940, Gao Xingjian was still a young man when China's decade long Cultural Revolution began in 1966. This disastrous period represented China's bizarre attempt to create a utopian society by both erasing its extensive history and obliterating... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $15.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michel Foucault Publisher Comments In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anton Chekhov Publisher Comments Called the greatest of short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition. Now, thirty of his best tales from the major periods of his creative life are available... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hanan Al Shaykh Publisher Comments A powerful and moving novel, by the Arab worlds leading woman novelist, about four women coping with the insular, oppressive society of an unnamed desert state.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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