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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 Mohammed Dib Publisher Comments A novel told in verse, this is the story of an Old World man's tribulation in the New World.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sigrid Undset Publisher Comments Set in Norway and Iceland at the beginning of the 11th century, "Gunnar's Daughter" tells the story of a beautiful, spoiled young woman who, after being raped by the man she had wanted to love, raises the child conceived in violence. Alone she rebuilds... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Shusaku Endo 
Publisher Comments "Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama". Irving Howe. -- The New York Review of... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by V Y Mudimbe Publisher Comments The Rift explores textuality, writing, solitude, and death in the context of contemporary African life, and at the same time examines the constitution and materiality of African subjectivity. V. Y. Mudimbe's writing is provocative, demanding, and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $3.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Orhan Pamuk
Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of My Name is Red ("a sumptuous thriller" — John Updike; "chockful of sublimity and sin" — New York Times Book Review) comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings — for love, art, power, and God — set in... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rabindranath Tagore Publisher Comments The poems of Rabindranath Tagore are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and world literature, expressing a profound and passionate human yearning. His ceaselessly inventive works deal with such subjects as the interplay between God and mortals,... (read more) Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Amos Oz Publisher Comments Oz traveled throughout Israel and the West Bank in the 1980s and spoke with many people about the past, present, and future of his country. What he found is memorably set down here. New Author’s Note and Postscript; map. Translated by Maurie... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dubravka Ugresic Publisher Comments In this collection of essays, the author dissects the contemporary book industry.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Yasunari Kawabata Publisher Comments To this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature. As he chronicles the affair between a wealthy dilettante and the mountain geisha who... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (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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by Henning Mankell
Publisher Comments Linda Wallander is bored. Just graduated from the police academy, she is waiting to start work at the Ystad police station and move into her own apartment. Meantime, she is living with her father and, like fathers and daughters everywhere, they are... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Patrik Ourednik Publisher Comments Patrick Ourednik's first novel to be translated into English is a unique retelling of the history of the twentieth century. Told in an informal, compelling voice, Ourednik represents the twentieth century in all its contradictions and grand illusions... (read more) List Price $12.50 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elif Shafak Publisher Comments "An enchanting combination of compassion and cruelty . . . Elif Shafak is the best author to come out of Turkey in the last decade."-Orhan Pamuk The setting is a stately residence in Istanbul, built by Russian noble migr Pavel Antipov for his wife... (read more) List Price $19.77 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anna Akhmatova Publisher Comments Witness to the international and domestic chaos of the first half of the twentieth century, Anna Akhmatova (1888-1966) chronicled Russia's troubled times in poems of sharp beauty and intensity. Her genius is now universally acknowledged, and recent... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Yuri Rytkheu Publisher Comments A Dream in Polar Fogis at once a cross-cultural journey, an ethnographic fable and chronicle of the Chukchi people and a breathtaking adventure story. It is the story of John MacLellan, a young Canadian sailor who is left behind by his ship, stranded... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lalitha Antherjanam Publisher Comments "There have been no women in our part of the country whose names posterity found it worthwhile to cherish," writes Lalithambika Antherjanam in "Come Back", her fictional account of an Indian woman activist's life. In Cast Me Out If You Will, however... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Makoto Oda Publisher Comments "The Breaking Jewel" is set on an island in the South Pacific during the final days of World War II, when the tide has turned against Japan and it is clear that the war has become one of attrition. The novel opens with the preparations of a small force... (read more) List Price $16.50 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dao Bei Publisher Comments Bei Dao, the internationally acclaimed Chinese poet, has been the poetic conscience of the dissident movements in his country for over twenty years. He has been in exile since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989.<P>Unlock presents forty-nine new... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.00 (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 $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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