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<<< 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 >>>     sort list by title | publication date One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells... The Thief's Journal Jean Genet The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel, personifying his quest for spiritual glory through the pursuit of evil. Writing in the intensely lyrical prose style that is his trademark, the man Jean Cocteau... The Hungry Tide A Novel Amitav Ghosh In search of a rare river dolphin in the Sundarban archipelago, a young Indian-American biologist enlists the help of a local fisherman and an urbane translator. In lush and undulating prose. . . The Solitude of Prime Numbers A Novel Paolo Giordano "Mesmerizing...an exquisite rendering of what one might call feels at the subatomic level." -The New York Times A prime number is a lonely thing. It can only be divided by itself or by one, and it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia are... The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A major work of German romanticism in a translation that is acknowledged as the definitive English language version. The Vintage Classics edition also includes Novella, Goethe's poetic vision of an idyllic pastoral... Cosmos and Pornografia Two Novels Witold Gombrowicz, Alastair Hamilton, Eric Mosbacher Here are two major works by the famed Polish novelist and dramatist Witold Gombrowicz. The first, Cosmos, a metaphysical thriller, revolves around an absurd investigation. The Scale of Maps Belén Gopegui A novel and its protagonist create one another, in a tale strung between the work of Cervantes and Nabokov. A Cock-Eyed Comedy Juan Goytisolo In A Cock-Eyed Comedy, Father Trennes is like Virginia Woolf's Orlando, a spirit of the age moving through several centuries of Spain's history. His most recent incarnation is as an Opus Dei religious leader in present-day Spain, whose conformity... The Marx Family Saga Juan Goytisolo Surreal fiction from Juan Goytisolo, Spain's greatest living writer. A resurrected Karl and Jenny Marx sitting on their sofa in Hampstead watching a television documentary about the landing of Albanian refugees on a private Italian beach, flourishing... State of Siege Juan Goytisolo A traveler looks out his hotel window on a war-torn city. A mortar explodes in his room and, when the police arrive, the corpse has disappeared and only a notebook of apocryphal writings and poems is found. These enigmas lead into a labyrinth, where... The Polish Boxer Eduardo Halfon This strange and beautiful book at the outset defies definition. It is neither a collection of short stories or a novel but rather a tapestry of loosely connected movements that, when taken together, compose something haunting and enigmatic... How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia A Novel Mohsin Hamid His first two novels established Mohsin Hamid as a radically inventive storyteller with his finger on the world's pulse. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia meets that reputation—and exceeds it. The astonishing and riveting tale of a man's journey... The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter Pan From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers Knut Hamsun <<< 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 >>>