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<<< 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 >>>     sort list by title | author The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle A Novel Haruki Murakami Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried... Pan From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers Knut Hamsun The History of the Siege of Lisbon José Saramago "If proofreaders were given their freedom and did not have their hands and feet tied by a mass of prohibitions more binding than the penal code, they would soon transform the face of the world, establish the kingdom of universal happiness, giving... In Search of Lost Time Volume 1, Swann's Way D. J. Enright, Marcel Proust In Swann’s Way, the themes of Proust’s masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator’s childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the... The White Castle A Novel Orhan Pamuk From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Borges, Nabokov, and DeLillo comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating work of historical fiction and a sinuous treatise on the enigma of identity and the relations between East and West. In... Omon Ra Victor Pelevin A rising star in the Russian literary firmament, Pelevin, winner of the 1993 Russian Booker Prize for short stories, has written a parody of life under Communism refracted through the prism of the Soviet space program. Hunger Knut Hamsun Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Originally published in 1890, this classic of modern literature follows an impoverished Norwegian writer through the streets of Christiania (now Olso) as he struggles on the edge of starvation. Existing on what... The Emigrants Michael Hulse, W. G. Sebald Published to enormous critical acclaim in the US and sold out immediately in its first hardcover edition, The Emigrants has been acclaimed as "one of the best novels to appear since World War II" (Review of Contemporary Fiction) and three times chosen... Drown Junot Díaz With ten stories that move from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey, Junot Diaz makes his remarkable debut. Diaz's work is unflinching and strong, and these stories crackle with an electric sense of... Slowness A Novel Milan Kundera After the gravity of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Immortality, Slowness comes as a surprise: it is certainly Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, with, as the author himself says, "not a single serious word in it." Dead Souls A Novel Nikolai Gogol Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality... Open Veins of Latin America Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent Eduardo Galeano A superbly written, excellently translated, and powerfully persuasive expose which all students of Latin American and U.S. history must read.--Choice Keys to the Garden New Israeli Writing Ammiel Alcalay This first anthology of twentieth-century Israeli literature to feature the work of writers who were born in-or whose families originated from-the Levant, Turkey, Iran, India, and Arab worlds represents twenty-four authors whose concerns with... Astrolabe of the Sea Shams Nadir The Astrolabe of the Sea-a work of beauty, originality, and universal outlook-is part ancient fable, part contemporary ironic narrative. A mysterious astrolabe that unfolds "the fabric of dreams" to all who gaze upon it was once consigned to the... <<< 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 >>>