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by Tayeb Salih  Publisher Comments 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)  List Price $8.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Mourid Barghouthi Publisher Comments Palestinian poet Barghouti relates his homecoming to Ramallah after 30 years in exile, offering a moving account of what it means to be a Palestinian today. Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Federico García Lorca Publisher Comments 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) List Price $20.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Yi Mun Yol Publisher Comments When the King's governor, after falling into rebel hands and changing sides, is recaptured by royal troops and executed, his sons and grandsons are also condemned to death. They survive by subterfuge, but they have lost their place in society. The Poet... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Cervantes and Edith Grossman 
Publisher Comments 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) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Kenzaburo Oe
Publisher Comments The Silent Cry traces the uneasy relationship between two brothers who return to their ancestral home, a village in densely forested western Japan. While one brother tries to sort out the after-effects of a friend's suicide and the birth of a retarded... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $6.95 (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) List Price $4.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Gao Xingjian Publisher Comments “ A beautifully composed series of prose pieces that .. stands shoulder to shoulder with some of the foremost fiction of the moment… . Worth close attention of any serious reader.”... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by C P Cavafy Publisher Comments C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $4.50 (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) Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $14.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Irina Denezhkina Publisher Comments 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) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Svetlana Alexievich Publisher Comments 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) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $9.50 (Used - Hardcover) 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 $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Javier Marias Publisher Comments Javier Marias's A Heart So White chronicles with unnerving insistence the relentless power of the past. Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he begins to consider the past anew, and begins to ponder what he... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by W G Sebald
Powells.com Staff Pick This unique book is a visionary rendering of documentary-quality clarity and fictional skill. The Emigrants is strangely haunting, and bewitchingly beautiful. As you turn the pages you'll find yourself losing any sense of what is real and what is... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Muhsin Ramli Publisher Comments An Iraqi family tries to survive both a dictator and a war. Set in an Iraqi village during the Iran-Iraq war, Scattered Crumbs critiques a totalitarian dictatorship through the stories of an impoverished peasant family. A father, a fierce supporter of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michel Houellebecq
Powells.com Staff Pick Lots of interesting, kinky sex brackets this novel's ideas of the good and bad of global tourism. Our hero's wanderings through far-flung locales allows the author to explore lust, love, travel, adventure, capitalism — and how they all intertwine... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Grossman Publisher Comments When the awkward, neurotic and childlike Yair, a seller of rare books, sees a beautiful woman across the room at a class reunion he feels compelled to write to her. So begins a love affair of words between two married, middle-aged adults, dissatisfied... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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