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Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through Historyby Robert D. KaplanISBN 0312424930 (0-312-42493-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History'Book summary:From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare now sweeping Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy.
This enthralling and often chilling political travelogue fully deciphers the Balkans' ancient passions and intractable hatreds for outsiders. For as Kaplan travels among the vibrantly-adorned churches and soul-destroying slums of the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece, he allows us to see the region's history as a time warp in which Slobodan Milosevic becomes the reincarnation of a fourteenth-century Serbian martyr; Nicolae Ceaucescu is called "Drac," or "the Devil"; and the one-time Soviet Union turns out to be a continuation of the Ottoman Empire. [via]
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- Balkan Ghosts : A Journey Through History: ISBN 0679749810 (0-679-74981-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History: ISBN 0312087012 (0-312-08701-2)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr - Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History: ISBN 0312424930 (0-312-42493-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
- Balkan Ghosts : A Journey Through History: ISBN 0679749810 (0-679-74981-0)
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The Balkans: Nationalism, War & the Great Powers, 1804-1999by Misha GlennyISBN 0140233776 (0-14-023377-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Balkans: Nationalism, War & the Great Powers, 1804-1999'Book summary:The history of the Balkan states, like that of so much of the world, has for centuries been marked by ethnocidal fracases, savage wars of conquest, and periods of eerie calm. The mountainous region's shifting alliances and divisions have long puzzled outside observers, writes journalist Misha Glenny, the author of The Fall of Yugoslavia: "For many decades, Westerners gazed on these lands as if [they were] an ill-charted zone separating Europe's well-ordered civilization from the chaos of the Orient."
Those outsiders, Glenny suggests, have been the source of much of the Balkans' misery. In only the last two centuries, the territory has been contested by the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires, the Third Reich, and the Allies, all of whom exploited and exacerbated existing ethnic conflict. (The Nazi occupiers of Croatia, he writes, even had to rein in the fascist Ustase militia for fear that their campaign against Serbs and Muslims would only strengthen resistance to their puppet government.) And, he continues, attempts to quell the recent conflict in Bosnia have created problems of their own. He argues that war will break out anew the moment international troops are withdrawn and that the Dayton Agreement is too "full of anomalies and frictions" to stand. The intervention in Kosovo has been no better, he adds, and the Allies' misguided efforts are sure to yield only further bloodshed if the only objective is to remove Slobodan Milosevic from power. "Should the West fail to address the effects, not merely of a three-month air war in 1999, but of 120 years of miscalculation and indifference since the Congress of Berlin, then there will be little to distinguish NATO's actions from any of its great-power predecessors," Glenny concludes.
Glenny's provocative book sheds much light on recent Balkan history--and on the region's likely future. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Book of Laughter and Forgettingby Milan Kundera, Aaron AsherISBN 0060932147 (0-06-093214-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting'Book summary:In one of the finer modern ironies of the life-imitates-art sort, the country that Kundera seemed to be writing about when he talked about Czechoslovakia is, thanks to the latest political redefinitions, no longer precisely there. This kind of disappearance and reappearance is, partly, what Kundera explores in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In this polymorphous work -- now a novel, now autobiography, now a philosophical treatise -- Kundera discusses life, music, sex, philosophy, literature and politics in ways that are rarely politically correct, never classifiable but always original, entertaining and definitely brilliant. [via]
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- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: ISBN 0571203876 (0-571-20387-6)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: ISBN 0060926082 (0-06-092608-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: ISBN 006099701X (0-06-099701-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: ISBN 0140059245 (0-14-005924-5)
Softcover, Penguin Books - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: ISBN 0140096930 (0-14-009693-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: ISBN 0394508963 (0-394-50896-3)
Hardcover, A. A. Knopf - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: ISBN 0809592010 (0-8095-9201-0)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: ISBN 0060932147 (0-06-093214-7)
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- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: ISBN 0571203876 (0-571-20387-6)
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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journeyby Isabel FonsecaISBN 067973743X (0-679-73743-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey'Book summary:They travel endlessly and seem to appear almost everywhere, yet they are the world's most mysterious people: Gypsies. Isabel Fonseca has done the impossible, entering into their world, living and traveling with Gypsies during several long trips to Eastern Europe, and she has brought back an insightful, highly personal, and very readable account of who the Gypsies are and how they live. The Gypsies have a legendary aversion to "gadje," or outsiders, but Fonseca has lifted the curtain and written gracefully about their lives on the edge of society. [via]
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Cafe Europa: Life After Communismby Slavenka DrakulicISBN 0140277722 (0-14-027772-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cafe Europa: Life After Communism'Book summary:One of Eastern Europe's most acclaimed writers offers a brilliant work of political reportage--filtered through her own experience--which shows that Europe is still a divided continent, with the East separated--and ostracized--from the West by prejudice and intolerance. [via]
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Der Prozessby Franz KafkaISBN 0435385011 (0-435-38501-1)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Description of a Struggle: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Eastern European Writingby Michael March, Ivan KlimaISBN 0679745149 (0-679-74514-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Dictionary of the Khazarsby Milorad Pavic, Christina Pribicevic-ZoricISBN 0679724613 (0-679-72461-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dictionary of the Khazars'Book summary:A national bestseller, Dictionary of the Khazars was cited by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year. Written in two versions, male and female (both available in Vintage International), which are identical save for seventeen crucial lines, Dictionary is the imaginary book of knowledge of the Khazars, a people who flourished somewhere beyond Transylvania between the seventh and ninth centuries. Eschewing conventional narrative and plot, this lexicon novel combines the dictionaries of the world's three major religions with entries that leap between past and future, featuring three unruly wise men, a book printed in poison ink, suicide by mirrors, a chimerical princess, a sect of priests who can infiltrate one's dreams, romances between the living and the dead, and much more. [via]
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Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Wordsby Milorad PavicISBN 0394571835 (0-394-57183-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words'Book summary:A novel despite its title, this book spans five centuries and is a mixture of fable, fiction and history. This is the male edition which differs slightly but significantly from the accompanying female edition. [via]
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El Proceso / the Processby Franz KafkaISBN 8437608562 (84-376-0856-2)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Proceso / the Process'Book summary:This brilliant writer knew how to create a nightmare world where things happen without any explanation, where the characters fight against a fate which they do´nt understand, where there are effects without any apparent cause and where all happens without any explanation, but even so, it is impossible to escape from the fascination of the plot.. [via]
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Europeana: A Brief History Of The Twentieth Centuryby Patrik Ourednik, Gerald TurnerISBN 1564783820 (1-56478-382-0)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Europeana: A Brief History Of The Twentieth Century'Book summary:Patrik Ouredník's first novel to be translated into English is a unique version of the history of the twentieth century.
Told in an informal, mesmerizing voice, Ouredník represents the twentieth century in all its contradictions and grand illusions, demonstrating that nothing substantial has changed between 1900 and 1999humanity is still hopeful for the future and still mired in age-old conflicts. As he demonstrates that nothing can be reduced to a single, true viewpoint, Ouredník mixes hard facts and idiosyncratic observations, highlighting the horror and absurdity of the twentieth century and the further absurdity of attempting to narrate this history. [via]More editions of Europeana: A Brief History Of The Twentieth Century:
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Everything Is Illuminatedby Jonathan Safran FoerISBN 0060529709 (0-06-052970-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everything Is Illuminated'Book summary:The simplest thing would be to describe Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer's accomplished debut, as a novel about the Holocaust. It is, but that really fails to do justice to the sheer ambition of this book. The main story is a grimly familiar one. A young Jewish American--who just happens to be called Jonathan Safran Foer--travels to the Ukraine in the hope of finding the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He is aided in his search by Alex Perchov, a naïve Ukrainian translator, Alex's grandfather (also called Alex), and a flatulent mongrel dog named Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. On their journey through Eastern Europe's obliterated landscape they unearth facts about the Nazi atrocities and the extent of Ukrainian complicity that have implications for Perchov as well as Safran Foer. This narrative is not, however, recounted from (the character) Jonathan Safran Foer's perspective. It is relayed through a series of letters that Alex sends to Foer. These are written in the kind of broken Russo-English normally reserved for Bond villains or Latka from Taxi. Interspersed between these letters are fragments of a novel by Safran Foer--a wonderfully imagined, almost magical realist, account of life in the shtetl before the Nazis destroyed it. These are in turn commented on by Alex, creating an additional metafictional angle to the tale.
If all this sounds a little daunting, don't be put off; Safran Foer is an extremely funny as well as intelligent writer who combines some of the best Jewish folk yarns since Isaac Bashevis Singer with a quite heartbreaking meditation on love, friendship, and loss. --Travis Elborough, Amazon.co.uk [via]
Exit into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europeby Eva HoffmanISBN 0140145494 (0-14-014549-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exit into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe'Book summary:The award-winning author of Lost in Translation travels from the Baltic to the Black Sea, offering both an outsider's perspective and a passionate concern for her native Eastern Europe. 10,000 first printing. [via]
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The Farewell Partyby Milan KunderaISBN 0394496604 (0-394-49660-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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God's Smugglerby John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill, AndrewISBN 0800793013 (0-8007-9301-3)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God's Smuggler'Book summary:As a boy he dreamed of being a spy undercover behind enemy lines. As a man he found himself undercover for God. Brother Andrew was his name and for decades his life story, recounted in God's Smuggler, has awed and inspired millions. The bestseller tells of the young Dutch factory worker's incredible efforts to transport Bibles across closed borders--and the miraculous ways in which God provided for him every step of the way.
Revell and Chosen now reintroduce this powerful story with two new releases: a 35th anniversary edition and The Narrow Road, an expanded youth edition. Both contain a new foreword and afterword. The youth edition also features information about ministry to the persecuted church today, including country profiles, quotes from Christians in underground churches, "what if" scenarios based on real-life threats they face, and stories from others who have participated in Brother Andrew's Bible-smuggling work.
Brother Andrew's story remains as inspiring today as it was thirty-five years ago, and with these new releases it will motivate a whole new generation to risk everything to follow God's call. [via] -
God's Smugglerby Brother AndrewISBN 1557480230 (1-55748-023-0)
Hardcover, Barbour Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God's Smuggler'Book summary:As a boy he dreamed of being a spy undercover behind enemy lines. As a man he found himself undercover for God. Brother Andrew was his name and for decades his life story, recounted in God's Smuggler, has awed and inspired millions. The bestseller tells of the young Dutch factory worker's incredible efforts to transport Bibles across closed borders--and the miraculous ways in which God provided for him every step of the way.
Revell and Chosen now reintroduce this powerful story with two new releases: a 35th anniversary edition and The Narrow Road, an expanded youth edition. Both contain a new foreword and afterword. The youth edition also features information about ministry to the persecuted church today, including country profiles, quotes from Christians in underground churches, "what if" scenarios based on real-life threats they face, and stories from others who have participated in Brother Andrew's Bible-smuggling work.
Brother Andrew's story remains as inspiring today as it was thirty-five years ago, and with these new releases it will motivate a whole new generation to risk everything to follow God's call. [via] 
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communismby Tina RosenbergISBN 0679744991 (0-679-74499-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Historianby Elizabeth KostovaISBN 0316154547 (0-316-15454-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Historian'Book summary:a novel about Vlad the Impaler and the modern world [via]
History of the Balkansby Barbara JelavichISBN 0521252490 (0-521-25249-0)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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History of the Balkans: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuriesby Barbara JelavichISBN 0521274583 (0-521-27458-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the Balkans: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries'Book summary:Volume I discusses the history of the major Balkan nationalities. It describes the differing conditions experienced under Ottoman and Habsburg rule, but the main emphasis is on the national movements, their successes and failures to 1900, and the place of events in the Balkans in the international relations of the day. [via]
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History of the Balkans: Twentieth Centuryby Barbara JelavichISBN 0521274591 (0-521-27459-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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How We Survived Communism and Even Laughedby Slavenka DrakulicISBN 0060975407 (0-06-097540-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed'Book summary:Hailed by feminists as one of the most important contributions to women's studies in the last decade, this gripping, beautifully written account describes the daily struggles of women under the Marxist regime in the former republic of Yugoslavia. [via]
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Immortaliteby Milan KunderaISBN 2070718395 (2-07-071839-5)
Softcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Immortalite'Book summary:420pages. in8. Broché. Dans ce nouveau roman, l'auteur de Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli analyse différents thèmes: le visage, l'immortalité, la lutte, l'amour, le hasard, le cadran et la célébration. [via]
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Immortalityby Milan Kundera, Peter KussiISBN 0802111114 (0-8021-1111-4)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Immortality'Book summary:A.novel, divided into seven parts and exploring immortality. This is the author's seventh novel. His previous works include "The Joke", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". He has written one play, "Jacques and his Master". [via]
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La Inmortalidad / Immortalityby Milan KunderaISBN 8472231615 (84-7223-161-5)
Softcover, Tusquets Editor
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Let's Go 2000 Eastern EuropeISBN 0312244614 (0-312-24461-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Let's Go 2001 Eastern Europeby Andrea VolfovaISBN 0312246714 (0-312-24671-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Let's Go 2003 Eastern Europeby Jennifer Anne O'Brien, Susan E. Bell, Rochelle Lundy, Mahmoud YoussefISBN 0312305710 (0-312-30571-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr Special
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Let's Go Eastern Europe 2005by Let's Go, IncISBN 0312335458 (0-312-33545-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr Special
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let's Go Eastern Europe 2005'Book summary:Completely revised and updated, Let's Go: Eastern Europe is your comprehensive guide to many of Europe's hottest travel destinations. Let's Go's forty-five years of travel savvy deliver must-have facts, from practical tips on getting there and getting around to insider info on local culture. This edition features more diverse listings, more insider advice in cities, and expanded outdoors coverage, from Abakan to Zagreb. Whether you'd prefer to soak the day away in the thermal baths of Hungary or traverse the Slovak-Polish borders by hiking the Tatras Mountains, Let's Go's intrepid researchers are there to lead the way.[via]More editions of Let's Go Eastern Europe 2005:
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The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Pragueby Timothy Garton AshISBN 0679740481 (0-679-74048-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague'Book summary:The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland's first free parliamentary elections -- in which Solidarity found itself in the position of trying to limit the scope of its victory -- or sitting in at the meetings of an unlikely coalition of bohemian intellectuals and Catholic clerics orchestrating the liberation of Czechoslovakia, Garton Ash writes with enormous sympathy and power.
In this book -- now with a new Afterword by the author -- Garton Ash creates a stunningly evocative portrait of the revolutions that swept Communism from Eastern Europe in 1989 and whose after-effects will resonate for years to come. [via]More editions of The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague:
- The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague: ISBN 0394588843 (0-394-58884-3)
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- The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague: ISBN 0394588843 (0-394-58884-3)
Polandby James A. MichenerISBN 0449205878 (0-449-20587-8)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poland'Book summary:Michener's novel covering Poland's recent history, with its conflict between Church and State, worker and leader, and the Poland of centuries gone by, struggling to retain its land and identity in the face of stronger powers on all sides. Interwoven with the action are the fates of three families. [via]
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- Poland: ISBN 0816137285 (0-8161-3728-5)
Softcover, G.K. Hall - Poland: ISBN 0394531892 (0-394-53189-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Poland: ISBN 0394533887 (0-394-53388-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Poland: ISBN 0816136890 (0-8161-3689-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Poland: ISBN 0449205878 (0-449-20587-8)
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Pragueby Arthur PhillipsISBN 0375759778 (0-375-75977-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Price of Freedom: A History of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the Presentby Piotr S. WandyczISBN 0415254914 (0-415-25491-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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- The Price of Freedom: A History of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present: ISBN 0415076277 (0-415-07627-7)
Softcover, Routledge - The Price of Freedom: A History of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present: ISBN 0415076269 (0-415-07626-9)
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Surge to Freedom: The End of Communist Rule in Eastern Europeby J. F. BrownISBN 0822311453 (0-8223-1145-3)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemenby Tadeusz Borowski, Barbara VedderISBN 0140186247 (0-14-018624-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen'Book summary:Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket or the luxury of a pair of shoes with thick soles; and where the line between normality and abnormality vanishes. Published in Poland after the Second World War, these stories constitute a masterwork of world literature. [via]
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The Trialby Franz Kafka, Douglas Scott, Christopher Waller, J. P. SternISBN 033024468X (0-330-24468-X)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Trial'Book summary:The story of The Trial's publication is almost as fascinating as the novel itself. Kafka intended his parable of alienation in a mysterious bureaucracy to be burned, along with the rest of his diaries and manuscripts, after his death in 1924. Yet his friend Max Brod pressed forward to prepare The Trial and the rest of his papers for publication. When the Nazis came to power, publication of Jewish writers such as Kafka was forbidden; Kafka's writings, many of which have distinctively Jewish themes, did not find a broad audience until after World War II. (Hannah Arendt once observed that although "during his lifetime he could not make a decent living, [Kafka] will now keep generations of intellectuals both gainfully employed and well-fed.") Among the current crop of Kafka heirs is Breon Mitchell, the translator of this edition of The Trial. Rather than tidying up Kafka's unconventional grammar and punctuation (as previous translators have done), Mitchell captures the loose, uneasy, even uncomfortable constructions of Kafka's original story. His translation technique is the only way to convey the comedy and confusion of this narrative, in which Josef K., "without having done anything truly wrong," is arrested, tried, convicted and executed--on a charge that is never disclosed to him. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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- The Trial: ISBN 0805209999 (0-8052-0999-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Trial: ISBN 0805210407 (0-8052-1040-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Trial: ISBN 0613175638 (0-613-17563-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Trial: ISBN 0679409947 (0-679-40994-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - The Trial: ISBN 0805204164 (0-8052-0416-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Trial: ISBN 0805208488 (0-8052-0848-8)
Softcover, Schocken Books - The Trial: ISBN 039444955X (0-394-44955-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - The Trial: ISBN 0606039392 (0-606-03939-2)
Hardcover, Demco Media - The Trial : A New Translation Based on the Restored Text: ISBN 0805241655 (0-8052-4165-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - The Trial: ISBN 033024468X (0-330-24468-X)
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The Trial ; Metamorphosis ; In the Penal Colony: Three Theatre Adaptations from Franz Kafkaby Franz Kafka, Steven BerkoffISBN 090639984X (0-906399-84-X)
Hardcover, Amber Lane Press
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The Unbearable Lightness of Beingby Milan Kundera, Michael Henry HeimISBN 0060932139 (0-06-093213-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'Book summary:When The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in English, it was hailed as "a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness" by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the New York Times Book Review. It went on to win the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and quickly became an international bestseller. Twenty years later, the novel has established itself as a modern classic. To commemorate the anniversary of its first English-language publication, HarperCollins is proud to offer a special hardcover edition.
A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover -- these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel.
Controlled by day, Tereza's jealousy awakens by night, transformed into ineffably sad death-dreams, while Tomas, a successful surgeon, alternates loving devotion to the dependent Tereza with the ardent pursuit of other women. Sabina, an independent, free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals -- of parents, husband, country, love itself -- whereas her lover, the intellectual Franz, loses all because of his earnest goodness and fidelity.
In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel, says the novelist, "the unbearable lightness of being" -- not only as the consequence of our private acts but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.
This magnificent novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and embraces, it seems, all aspects of human existence. It juxtaposes geographically distant places (Prague, Geneva, Paris, Thailand, the United States, a forlorn Bohemian village); brilliant and playful reflections (on "eternal return," on kitsch, on man and animals -- Tomas and Tereza have a beloved doe named Karenin); and a variety of styles (from the farcical to the elegiac) to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world's truly great writers.
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LA Despedida/the Farewell Partyby Milan KunderaISBN 8472232328 (84-7223-232-8)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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La Historiadora / The Historianby Eduardo G. Murillo, Elizabeth KostovaISBN 8495618877 (84-95618-87-7)
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La Inmortalidad / Immortalityby Milan KunderaISBN 8483105373 (84-8310-537-3)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Inmortalidad / Immortality'Book summary:A partir del gesto encantador de una mujer de cierta edad, el escritor crea el personaje de Agnes, alrededor de la cual aparecerán su hermana Laura, su marido Paul, y todo nuestro mundo contemporáneo en el que se rinde culto a la tecnología y la imagen. Pero ¿y si el hombre no fuera sino su imagen ?, pregunta otro personaje, Rubens, quien comprueba finalmente que de la más excitante de sus amantes sólo le quedan dos o tres fotografías mentales. Esta novela transforma todos los aspectos del mundo moderno en cuestiones metafísicas.
From the charming gesture of a woman, the writer creates the character of Agnes, and around her a whole universe emerges: her sister Laura, her husband Paul, and our contemporary imagedriven world. A breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature, a great unclassifiable masterpiece. [via]More editions of La Inmortalidad / Immortality:
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LA Insoportable Levedad Del Serby Milan Kundera, Fernando ValenzuelaISBN 847223682X (84-7223-682-X)
Softcover, Tusquets Editores
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LA Insoportable Levedad Del Ser/the Unbearable Lightness of Beingby Milan KunderaISBN 8472232255 (84-7223-225-5)
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Polonia/Polandby James A. MichenerISBN 968131557X (968-13-1557-X)
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El Proceso / the Trialby Franz KafkaISBN 8495311313 (84-95311-31-3)
Softcover, Jorge a Mestas Ediciones
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Rumbo a Tartaria/Eastward to Tartaryby Robert D. KaplanISBN 8466601147 (84-666-0114-7)
Hardcover, Ediciones Urano
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L'insoutenable Legerete De L'etre: Romanby Milan KunderaISBN 2070700720 (2-07-070072-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L'insoutenable Legerete De L'etre: Roman'Book summary:Tomas et Teresa sont les deux pôles du roman. Faut-il choisir de porter le poids du passé sur ses épaules, comme Teresa qui ne peut se passer de la Tchécoslovaquie, qu'elle a pourtant fuie après le Printemps de Prague, de même qu'elle ne peut vivre sans Tomas, ce mari qu'elle chérit d'un amour jaloux et, par-là, à jamais insatisfait ? Ou bien faut-il préférer à cette pesanteur la légèreté de l'être qui caractérise Tomas et Sabina, la maîtresse amie qui seule peut comprendre le médecin séducteur explorant les femmes comme s'il disséquait des objets d'étude au scalpel ? Ne sachant quelle orientation est la plus supportable, le roman offre tour à tour le regard des différents personnages. Même le chien Karénine a droit au chapitre. Mais ce ballet incertain teinté d'irréalité apparaît vite comme une interrogation dialectique qui oscille entre réflexion et délire poétique pour aboutir à la conclusion que la pesanteur et la légèreté, pareillement insoutenables, ne procèdent jamais d'une décision véritable. --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters [via]
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Die Unertraegliche Leichtigkeit des Seins: Romanby Milan KunderaISBN 3596259924 (3-596-25992-4)
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Hazarski Recnikby Milorad PavicISBN 8644101560 (86-441-0156-0)
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