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Title	Author	Description
The Unknown Masterpiece Unknown Masterpiece	Honoré de Balzac Balzac	The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cézanne, Henry James, Picasso, and New Wave director Jacques Rivette, is, in critic Dore Ashton's words, a "fable of modern art." Contributors: Arthur C. Danto , Richard Howard
Tyrant Banderas Tyrant Banderas	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
Tun-huang Tun-huang	Yasushi Inoue Inoue	A magical and vivid adventure story set among the bandits, scholars, and monks of the fabled Silk Road. All seems lost when Chao Hsing-te sleeps through the exams that are to launch his career. But then a beautiful woman hands him a scrap of paper, written in a mysterious language, and he follows her into the desert... Contributors: Damion Searls , Jean Oda Moy
The True Deceiver True Deceiver	Tove Jansson Jansson	A story of manipulation and deceit set in the depths of the Swedish winter, The True Deceiver is unlike anything else Tove Jansson wrote. "I loved this book. It's cool in both senses of the word, understated yet exciting, and with a tension that keeps you reading." —Ruth Rendell Contributors: Ali Smith , Thomas Teal
Transit Transit	Anna Seghers Seghers	A young German concentration-camp escapee finds himself in Marseille with a cache of papers and travel documents belonging to another man—who just happens to be dead. “Anna Seghers in Transit has painted a grim and crowded picture of Marseille when it was still a port of possible escape for the fugitives of all Europe…[Transit’s] very air of confusion and blind groping is consonant with its theme.”—Christian Science Monitor Contributors: Peter Conrad , Heinrich Böll , Margot Dembo
The Wedding of Zein The Wedding of Zein	Tayeb Salih Salih	Salih returns to the Sudanese village that was the setting of Season of Migration to the North to tell a variety of tales—including the title story, in which the miraculous betrothal of the town fool unites its residents in unforeseen ways. "A long ululation for life, a hymn of love." —Ali al-Rai Contributors: Hisham Matar , Denys Johnson-Davies
The Summer Book Summer Book	Tove Jansson Jansson	A grandmother and her granddaughter live out a summer of play, talk, love, and exploration on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland (also the setting for some of the author's Moomintroll tales). "A marvelous, beautiful, wise novel, which is also very funny." —Philip Pullman Contributors: Kathryn Davis , Thomas Teal
Skylark Skylark	Dezso Kosztolányi Kosztolanyi	"This short, perfect novel seems to encapsulate all the world’s pain in a soap bubble. Its surface is as smooth as a fable, its setting and characters are unremarkable, its tone is blithe, and its effect is shattering." —Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review of Books Contributors: Péter Esterházy , Richard Aczel
The Road: Stories, Journalism, and Essays Road	Vasily Grossman Grossman	Grossman’s Life and Fate has been called the War and Peace of WWII, and his war reporting considered among the most important from the field. The Road brings together Grossman’s best untranslated fiction and nonfiction, including “The Hell of Treblinka,” one of the very first journalistic dispatches from inside a concentration camp. Contributors: Robert Chandler , Elizabeth Chandler, Robert Chandler, Olga Mukovnikova
Ravan and Eddie Ravan and Eddie	Kiran Nagarkar Nagarkar	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.