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"Early in Proud Beggars, a brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel. But the real mystery at the heart of Albert Cossery's wry ... More

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"This important, never-before-translated work by a major yet overlooked mid-20th century writer, is a brutally funny look at the human comedy on the ... More

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So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one...Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and stepmother in the ... More

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Pat Peoples has a theory that his life is actually a movie produced by God, and that his God-given mission in life is to become emotionally literate, ... More

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"Memories of My Melancholy Whores" is Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first work of fiction in ten years, and it fully lives up to the expectations of his ... More

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An epic novel nominated for the Man Booker Prize, this epic debut tells the story of a young man's perilous journey through the betrayals of war and ... More

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Required reading for the hip generation, this one-volume edition contains two novels and a collection of poetry. The comic genius and iconoclastic ... More

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Astonishing, inspirational, even magical: a naturalist's novel about an Alabama boy who heroically tries to save a sacred forest.

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Traumatised by an accident which 'involved something falling from the sky' and leaves him eight and a half million pounds richer but hopelessly ... More

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A beautifully rendered reevaluation of a previously misunderstood chapter in the history of immigration to America--which is to say, in the history ... More

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By the world-famous writer and feminist Simone de Beauvoir, here are three moving stories which eloquently express her understanding of women and the ... More

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This alluring novel of friendship, love and cuisine brings the bestselling author of LOST IN TRANSLATION and A CUP OF LIGHT to one of the great ... More

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Tree of Codes, is a haunting new story by best-selling American writer, Jonathan Safran Foer. With a different die-cut on every page, Tree of Codes ... More

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A major event: a new novel by the Whitbread Award winner, her first novel since Emotionally Weird, and probably her most commercial book yet. In ... More

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This used to be America, this river crossing in the ten-month stretch of land, this sea-to-sea. It used to be the safest place on earth. America as ... More

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A great novelist of the sea, a poet of the tropics, a critic of empire and analyst of globalization, a harbinger of the modern spy novel, an ... More

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"Here I am!" Flora called to Richard as she went downstairs. For a second, Meg felt disloyalty. It occurred to her of a sudden that Flora was always ... More

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Barbery best expresses her talent, demonstrating sensitivity and profound understanding both of life's many flavors and of the ways of the human soul ... More

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The Yage Letters: an early epistolary novel by William S. Burroughs, whose 1952 account of himself as Junkie, published under the pseudonym William ... More

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Lillian is charming, beautiful . . . and slowly dying of consumption. But she doesn't wish to end her days in a hospital in the Alps. She wants to ... More

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Imagine "The Secret Scripture" crossed with "The Reader": in this shattering novel set in Nazi-occupied France, Jacqueline Yallop has spun a story of ... More

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Satantango is a visionary masterpiece of post-war Hungarian literature: bleak, brutal and brilliant. In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, ... More

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This deluxe three-volume paperback boxed set--gorgeously designed editions in a see-through case, with a removeable sticker on the shrink wrap ... More

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Ayn Rand's bestseller tells the story of a staunchly individualist architect (based on Frank Lloyd Wright) who combats the collectivist (i.e., ... More

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