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by Danilo Kis  Publisher Comments -- A jailed man watches his persecutors kill a man a day until he confesses to a crime he did not commit; a bloodbath ensues when a fourteenth-century Jew refuses to repent his faith; the editor of an Ukrainian paper impersonates a priest to prove to a... (read more)  List Price $12.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Primo Levi 
Powells.com Staff Pick One of Levi's more mystifying, yet fascinating works. Interworking elements of memoir and his skills as a master storyteller, Levi uses each chapter to tug at a different thread of the intricately woven history of the Holocaust. You may occasionally wish... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa Publisher Comments A classic of modern fiction. Set in the 1860s, THE LEOPARD is the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elfriede Jelinek
Publisher Comments Erika Kohut teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory by day. But by night she trawls the porn shows of Vienna while her mother, whom she loves and hates in equal measure, waits up for her. Into this emotional pressure-cooker bounds music student and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Yukio Mishima Publisher Comments Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Po Li Publisher Comments Li Po (A.D. 701-762) lived in T'ang Dynasty China, but his influence has spanned the centuries: the pure lyricism of his poems has awed readers in China and Japan for over a millennium, and through Ezra Pound's translations, Li Po became central to the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Svetislav Basara Publisher Comments Ordered by two mysterious men to "write a statement of about 100 pages," the narrator of Chinese Letter — who's not sure of his name, but calls himself Fritz — faithfully records the bizarre occurrences of his daily life: his absurd... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Naguib Mahfouz Publisher Comments Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz reaches back millennia to his homeland's majestic past in this enchanting collection of early tales that brings the world of ancient Egypt face to face with our own times. From the Predynastic Period, where a cabal of... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gunter Grass Publisher Comments Hailed by critics and readers alike as Günter Grass's best book since The Tin Drum, Crabwalk is an engrossing account of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff and a critical meditation on Germany's struggle with its wartime memories. The Gustloff,... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Knut Hamsun Publisher Comments Contemptuous of contemporary novels and what he saw as stereotypical plots and empty characters, in 1890 Knut Hamsun wrote "Hunger", which is a searing excursion into the realm of the irrational. In a moment-by-moment internal monologue, Hamsun reveals... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (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 Murasaki Shikibu Publisher Comments The Tale of Genji was written in the eleventh century by Murasaki Shikibu, a lady of the Heian court. It is universally recognized as the greatest masterpiece of Japanese prose narrative, perhaps the earliest true novel in the history of the world. Until... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.00 (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 $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kenzaburo Oe
Powells.com Staff Pick If you like your books to be a punch in the face, then consider A Personal Matter a good nose bleed of a novel. This is a depiction of human frailty, alienation, despair, and ultimate triumph. Coming to grips with the narrator proved to be quite a... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carlos Fuentes Publisher Comments Hailed as a masterpiece since its publication in 1962, The Death of Artemio Cruz is Carlos Fuentes's haunting voyage into the soul of modern Mexico. Its acknowledged place in Latin American fiction and its appeal to a fresh generation of readers have... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Naguib Mahfouz Publisher Comments A renowned Nobel Prize-winning novelist refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories, made new by the magical... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Halldor K. Laxness
Powells.com Staff Pick "Independent People is epic and thorough, covering the sweep of generations as well as detailed hours ticking by during sleepless nights, ambling walks around the plains. It is a novel of contrasts, especially in its nuanced exploration of character... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard F. Burton and A. S. Byatt Publisher Comments Robert Louis Stevenson called it a "a book that captivates in childhood and delights in age".<P>Bennett Cerf selected the tales in this edition in 1932 for the Modern Library as the "most famous and representative" from the multivolume translation... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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