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On the Edge
On the Edge
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Markus Werner
Werner
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A gripping psychological thriller, the story of two men, one woman, and many questions: about
truth, about reality, about identity.
Contributors: Robert E. Goodwin |
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Basti
Basti
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Intizar Husain
Husain
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Basti exlores the divided consciousness of Pakistan, a country born of division and suffering from it to this day. Set during the chaos of the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war, the novel centers on the meetings and partings and memories and desires of a group of young men who seek to comprehend their country's disastrous situation. A masterpiece of modern Urdu fiction, Basti fuses modernist montage with stories from Muslim, Hindu, Persian, and Buddhist traditions in a poignant lament for the fallen historical world.
Contributors: Asif Farrukhi , Frances W. Pritchett |
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Ravan and Eddie
Ravan and Eddie
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Kiran Nagarkar
Nagarkar
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A delightful comic romp through the misadventures of two boys, Ravan (Hindu) and Eddie (Catholic), whose lives are entwined by chance and circumstance in a sprawling and crowded Mumbai tenement building. |
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1948
1948
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Yoram Kaniuk
Kaniuk
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A haunting, astute, utterly original novel about the Israeli War of Independence, drawn from
Yoram Kaniuk’s experience as a 17-year-old solider and filtered through six decades of memory.
Contributors: Anthony Berris |
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Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist
Going to the Dogs
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Erich Kästner
Kästner
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Berlin, 1929: There's little hope, but plenty of amusement to be had if you know where to look. Jakob Fabian, 32, “at present an advertising copywriter," isn't one to mope; he and his friends prowl the city's cabarets, exchanging barbs and looking for girls. "Graceful, vivid and distinguished … a little masterpiece of pathos and calamity.”—Michael Sadleir
Contributors: Rodney Livingstone , Cyrus Brooks |
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Beirut, I Love You: A Memoir
Beirut, I Love You
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Zena el Khalil
Khalil
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The story of Zena, a young artist who has fallen under the spell of a city that both attracts and repels her and threatens to engulf her in war, grief, and love affairs. |
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Growing Up Absurd
Growing Up Absurd
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Paul Goodman
Goodman
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“Growing Up Absurd, originally commissioned as a study of juvenile delinquency and later a bible of the 1960s student rebellion, remains essential and troubling reading for anyone who cares about the problems of the young.” Contributors: Casey Blake , Susan Sontag |
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The Water Theatre
Water Theatre
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Lindsay Clarke
Clarke
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A novel that follows war reporter Martin Crowther as he travels to Italy hoping to convince the estranged children of his ailing mentor to visit their father one last time. |
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Tyrant Banderas
Tyrant Banderas
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Ramón del Valle-Inclán |
The first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and an inspiration to García Márquez and Roa Bastos, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical Latin American Republic at last revolting against the ruthless monster that has ruled it for so long.
Contributors: Alberto Manguel , Peter Bush |
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Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall
Religio Medici and Urne-Burial
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Sir Thomas Browne
Browne
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This new edition of Browne’s two most enduring and beloved works, in which he ponders
life, death, religion, and healing, has been assembled by the bestselling author of Will in
the World, Stephen Greenblatt, and Renaissance scholar Ramie Targoff. It includes an extensive
introduction and helpful annotations.
Contributors: Stephen Greenblatt, Ramie Targoff |
