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Reading the World

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Reading the World
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Blindness Blindness
by Jose Saramago

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A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to... (read more)

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami

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Haruki Murakami is generally considered the greatest Japanese writer of his generation, but at times he seems more in tune with the culture of the West than of his native country. Throughout his work, the food, music, movies, and literature... (read more)

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The Stranger The Stranger
by Albert Camus

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Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's extraordinary first novel, The Stranger (L'Etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a... (read more)

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The House of the Spirits The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende

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Here, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave... (read more)

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Embroideries Embroideries
by Marjane Satrapi

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By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, this book's stories lift the veil off the real, private lives of Iranian women and--perfectly captured in Satrapi's simple, beguiling drawings--reveal the connections between women everywhere.... (read more)

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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino

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For those with an amorous affair with books, this may, perhaps, be the ultimate love letter to the reader. Calvino's novel, or more precisely, his book of ten interrelated stories, is both masterfully created and startlingly unique. Told alternately in... (read more)

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Invisible Cities Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino

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In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo — Tartar emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts the emperor with tales of the cities he has seen in his travels around... (read more)

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All the Names All the Names
by Jose Saramago

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"You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have," reads the epigraph of All the Names, a captivating and gorgeously written allegorical tale of identity penned by the illustrious José Saramago, which concerns the seemingly... (read more)

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Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy #1) Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy #1)
by Naguib Mahfouz

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The master work by the 1988 Nobel Prize winner in literature, this stunning book, which introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1990s, is "a majestic and capacious accomplishment"... (read more)

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Swann's Way (Classics Deluxe Edition): In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 Swann's Way (Classics Deluxe Edition): In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1
by Marcel Proust and Lydia Davis

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New audiences are introduced to what has been called the finest novel of the 20th century with this new translation. "A sensitive and direct translation, one that will enable us to discover, or rediscover, the joys of the novel."--Charles Messud... (read more)

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Discipline & Punish and The Birth of the Prison Discipline & Punish and The Birth of the Prison
by Michel Foucault

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In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his... (read more)

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The Emigrants The Emigrants
by W G Sebald

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This unique book is a visionary rendering of documentary-quality clarity and fictional skill. The Emigrants is strangely haunting, and bewitchingly beautiful. As you turn the pages you'll find yourself losing any sense of what is real and what is... (read more)

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By Night in Chile By Night in Chile
by Roberto Bolaño

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In a deathbed confession a Jesuit priest pours out self-justifying dark memories of Opus Dei and Pinochet.... (read more)

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The Liberated Bride The Liberated Bride
by A B Yehoshua

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Yochanan Rivlin, a professor at Haifa University, is a man of boundless and often naive curiosity. His wife, Hagit, a district judge, is tolerant of almost everything but her husband's faults and prevarications. Frequent arguments aside, they are a well... (read more)

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Don Quixote Don Quixote
by Cervantes and Edith Grossman

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Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the... (read more)

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Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxiii]-xxiv).... (read more)

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Silence Silence
by Shusaku Endo

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"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama". Irving Howe. -- The New York Review of... (read more)

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Soul Mountain Soul Mountain
by Gao Xingjian

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Born in 1940, Gao Xingjian was still a young man when China's decade long Cultural Revolution began in 1966. This disastrous period represented China's bizarre attempt to create a utopian society by both erasing its extensive history and obliterating... (read more)

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The Conference of Birds (Penguin Classics) The Conference of Birds (Penguin Classics)
by Farid Ud Din Attar

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"Mantiq al-tayr" (the conference of the birds) is an elaborate allegory with many digressions. It describes how all the birds (human souls) set out in search of the Simurgh (the godhead). All but 30 die and the survivors realize that they themselves are... (read more)

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The Leopard The Leopard
by Guiseppe Lampedusa

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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)

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