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  • KAIROS
    KAIROS
    ERPENBECK, JENNY
    Jenny Erpenbeck (the author of Go, Went, Gone and Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature. Erpenbeck's new novel Kairos--an unforgettably compelling masterpiece--tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fif...
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    Q. 270

  • NOT A NOVEL
    NOT A NOVEL
    ERPENBECK, JENNY
    Jenny Erpenbeck's highly acclaimed novel Go, Went, Gone was a New York Times notable book and launched one of Germany's most admired writers into the American spotlight. In the New Yorker, James Wood wrote: "When Erpenbeck wins the Nobel Prize in a few years, I suspect that this novel will be cited." On the heels of this literary breakthrough comes , a book of personal, profoun...
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    Q. 180

  • HURRICANE SEASON
    HURRICANE SEASON
    FERNANDA MELCHOR
    "The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse-by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals-propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extract...
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    Q. 180

  • THE END OF DAYS
    THE END OF DAYS
    ERPENBECK, JENNY
    Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five "books," each leading to a different death of the same unnamed female protagonist. How could it all have gone differently?--the narrator asks in the intermezzos. The first chapter begins with the death of a bab...
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    Q. 180

  • VISITATION
    VISITATION
    ERPENBECK, JENNY
    A bestseller in Germany, Visitation has established Jenny Erpenbeck as one of Europe’s most significant contemporary authors. A forested property on a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin lies at the heart of this darkly sensual, elegiac novel. Encompassing over one hundred years of German history, from the nineteenth century to the Weimar Republic, from World War II to the Socialis...
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    Q. 170

  • KAIROS
    KAIROS
    ERPENBECK, JENNY
    "Jenny Erpenbeck (the author of Go, Went, Gone and Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature. Erpenbeck's new novel Kairos--an unforgettably compelling masterpiece tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fif...
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    Q. 180

  • MY WORK
    MY WORK
    RAVN, OLGA / RUSSELL (TRADUCTOR)
    After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf Anna, who obsessively devours online news and compulsively orders clothes she can't afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, she forces herself to read and write. My Work is a novel about the unique and fundamental expe...
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    Q. 200

  • DOG POEMS
    DOG POEMS
    VARIOUS
    "Canis familiaris: man's best friend. Dogs have followed at our heels from our earliest hunts and have remained our faithful companions through thick and thin, triumph and disaster. At every age of history and at every stage of our lives, we look to dogs for friendship, love, labor, understanding, admiration, and compassion. And yet they give us far more than even all that. Fro...
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    Q. 140

  • CONFESSIONS OF A MASK
    CONFESSIONS OF A MASK
    MISHIMA, YUKIO
    The story of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in traditional Japanese society has become a modern classic.Confessions of a Mask tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to be “normal.” Kochan is meek-bodied, and unable to participate in the more athletic activities of his classmates. He begins to notice hi...
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    Q. 165

  • CAT POEMS
    CAT POEMS
    NEW DIRECTIONS
    Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery, and innumerable metaphors; cats cast a mirror on their beholders; cats endlessly captivate and hypnotize, frustrate and delight. And to poets, in particular, these enigmatic creatures are the most delightful and beguiling of muses (Charles Baudelaire: "the sole source of amusement i...
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    Q. 130

  • ENVELOPE POEMS
    ENVELOPE POEMS
    EMILY DICKINSON
    Although a very prolific poet and arguably America s greatest Emily Dickinson (1830 1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems. Instead, she created at home small handmade books. When, in her later years, she stopped producing these, she was still writing a great deal, and at her death she left behind many poems, drafts, and letters. It is among the makesh...
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    Q. 130

  • PROFESSOR BORGES
    PROFESSOR BORGES
    BORGES, JORGE LUIS
    Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borges s lectures delivered extempore by a man of extraordinary erudition bring the canon to remarkably vivid life.Now translated into English for the first time, these lectures are accompanied ...
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    Q. 180

  • THE BOOK OF WORDS
    THE BOOK OF WORDS
    ERPENBECK, JENNY
    A searing novella about coming of age in a land of tyranny, by one of Germany's most brilliant young authors. InThe Book of Words, Jenny Erpenbeck captures with amazing virtuosity the inner life of a young girl who survives the totalitarian regime of a curiously unnamed South American country (most likely Argentina during it "dirty war"). Raised by parents whose real identity e...
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    Q. 170

  • THE OLD CHILD & 38; OTHER STORIES
    THE OLD CHILD & 38; OTHER STORIES
    ERPENBECK, JENNY
    A forested property on a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin lies at the heart of this darkly sensual, elegiac novel. Encompassing over one hundred years of German history, from the nineteenth century to the Weimar Republic, from World War II to the Socialist German Democratic Republic, and finally reunification and its aftermath, Visitation offers the life stories of twelve indivi...
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    Q. 170

  • THE SETTING SUN
    THE SETTING SUN
    DAZAI, OSAMU
    Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made people of the setting sun a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the...
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    Q. 160

  • NO LONGER HUMAN (REVISED)
    NO LONGER HUMAN (REVISED)
    DAZAI, OSAMU
    Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, ...
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    Q. 160

  • NAUSEA
    NAUSEA
    SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL
    Sartre's greatest novel -- and existentialism's key text -- now introduced by James Wood. ...
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    Q. 150

  • CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
    CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
    TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
    One of America's greatest living playwrights, as well as a friend and colleague of Williams, Albee has written a concise introduction to the play from a playwright's perspective, examining the candor, sensuality, power, and impact of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," then and now. ...
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    Q. 140

  • THE COLLECTED POEMS OF DYLAN THOMAS
    THE COLLECTED POEMS OF DYLAN THOMAS
    DYLAN THOMAS
    The original and classic The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas is available once again, now with a brilliant new preface by Paul Muldoon. ...
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    Q. 170

  • SIDDHARTHA/THE DHAMMAPADA/THE BUDDHA
    SIDDHARTHA/THE DHAMMAPADA/THE BUDDHA
    HESSE, HERMANN
    Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, Hesse's classic work tells the story of a soul's long quest for the answer to the enigma of man's role on Earth. ...
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    Q. 130

  • MOODS
    MOODS
    YOEL HOFFMANN
    Yoel Hoffmann?“Israel’s celebrated avant-garde genius” (The Forward)?supplies the magic missing link between the infinitesimal and the infinitePart novel and part memoir, Yoel Hoffmann’s Moods is flooded with feelings, evoked by his family, losses, loves, the soul’s hidden powers, old phone books, and life in the Galilee?with its every scent, breeze, notable dog, and odd neighb...
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    Q. 229

  • THE PISAN CANTOS
    THE PISAN CANTOS
    EZRA POUND
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    Q. 230

  • NOX
    NOX
    ANNE CARSON
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    Q. 475

  • THE CAPTAIN'S VERSES
    THE CAPTAIN'S VERSES
    PABLO NERUDA
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    Q. 110