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Buddenbrooksby Thomas Mann, John E. WoodsISBN 0679752609 (0-679-75260-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Buddenbrooks'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Introduction by T. J. Reed; Translation by John E. Woods
Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a classic of modern literature.
It is the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany facing the advent of modernity; in an uncertain new world, the familys bonds and traditions begin to disintegrate. As Mann charts the Buddenbrooks decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence, and madness, he ushers the reader into a world of stunning vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip, and earthy humor.
In its immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity, buddenbrooks surpasses all other modern family chronicles. With remarkable fidelity to the original German text, this superb translation emphasizes the magnificent scale of Manns achievement in this riveting, tragic novel. [via] -
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Familyby Thomas Mann, John E. WoodsISBN 0679419942 (0-679-41994-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family'Book summary:A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.
Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany. With consummate skill, Mann draws a rounded picture of middle-class life: births and christenings; marriages, divorces, and deaths; successes and failures. These commonplace occurrences, intrinsically the same, vary slightly as they recur in each succeeding generation. Yet as the Buddenbrooks family eventually succumbs to the seductions of modernity -- seductions that are at variance with its own traditions -- its downfall becomes certain.
In immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity, Buddenbrooks surpasses all other modem family chronicles; it has, indeed, proved a model for most of them. Judged as the greatest of Mann's novels by some critics, it is ranked as among the greatest by all. Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929. [via]More editions of Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family:
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The Cairo Trilogy : Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Streetby Naguib Mahfouz, Edward W. SaidISBN 0375413316 (0-375-41331-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cairo Trilogy : Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street'Book summary:Naguib Mahfouzs magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prizewinning writers masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britains occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century.
The novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sonsthe tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. Al-Sayyid Ahmads rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination in Palace of Desire, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. Sugar Street brings Mahfouzs vivid tapestry of an evolving Egypt to a dramatic climax as the aging patriarch sees one grandson become a Communist, one a Muslim fundamentalist, and one the lover of a powerful politician.
Throughout the trilogy, the familys trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two World Wars, as change comes to a society that has resisted it for centuries. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, The Cairo Trilogy is the achievement of a master storyteller.
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Cancer Wardby Aleksandr SolzhenitsynISBN 0374511993 (0-374-51199-3)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cancer Ward'Book summary:Like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn the hero, Oldg Kostoglotov, spent many years in labour camps and was eventually transferred to a cancer ward. This study of how people confront terminal illness is also a dissection of the "cancerous" Soviet police state. [via]
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- Cancer Ward: ISBN 0440310091 (0-440-31009-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Cancer Ward: ISBN 0553206559 (0-553-20655-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Cancer Ward: ISBN 0370006569 (0-370-00656-9)
Hardcover, Bodley Head - Cancer Ward: ISBN 0394604997 (0-394-60499-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Cancer Ward: ISBN 0374511993 (0-374-51199-3)
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- Cancer Ward: ISBN 0440310091 (0-440-31009-1)
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Cancer Wardby Nicholas Bethell, David Burg, Aleksandr SolzhenitsynISBN 0679601635 (0-679-60163-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cancer Ward'Book summary:Like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn the hero, Oldg Kostoglotov, spent many years in labour camps and was eventually transferred to a cancer ward. This study of how people confront terminal illness is also a dissection of the "cancerous" Soviet police state. [via]
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Chronicle of a Death Foretoldby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory RabassaISBN 0394530748 (0-394-53074-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold'Book summary:"EXQUISITELY HARROWING . . . . Very strange and brilliantly conceived. . . . A sort of metaphysical murder mystery. . . . The murder will stand among the innumerable murders of modern literature as one of the best and most powerfully rendered."
A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder, that begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the night of the wedding, he is in turn murdered by her brothers, and we are left with a strange sense of inevitability and passions gone terribly awry. [via]More editions of Chronicle of a Death Foretold:
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Confessions of Felix Krullby Thomas MannISBN 0679739041 (0-679-73904-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of Felix Krull'Book summary:Recounts the enchanted career of the con man extraordinaire Felix Krull--a man unhampered by the moral precepts that govern the conduct of ordinary people. [via]
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Confessions of Felix Krull Confidence Manby Thomas MannISBN 0436272318 (0-436-27231-8)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Yearsby Thomas MannISBN 0394420128 (0-394-42012-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Death in Venice and Other Storiesby Thomas Mann, Clayton KoelbISBN 0393960137 (0-393-96013-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death in Venice'Book summary:This translation of Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann's work includes his masterpiece, Death in Venice, plus six of the author's short stories: Tristan, Tonio Kroger, Man and Dog: An Idyll, Hour of Hardship, Tobias Mindernickel, and The Child Prodigy.[via]
@GustavaelJackson While walking in the hotel lobby, saw a little kid dressed in a sailors uniform. Went from six to midnight. No Viagra needed.
I worry that his parents have noticed me. They might issue an amber alert if the child goes missing. Look out for gondola and child.
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- Death in Venice And Other Stories: ISBN 0451530322 (0-451-53032-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Death in Venice and Other Stories: ISBN 0553213334 (0-553-21333-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Death in Venice: ISBN 0613134370 (0-613-13437-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Death in Venice and Other Stories: ISBN 0613171659 (0-613-17165-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Death in Venice and Other Stories: ISBN 0679406662 (0-679-40666-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Death in Venice: ISBN 0393960137 (0-393-96013-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Death in Venice And Other Stories: ISBN 0451530322 (0-451-53032-2)
Death in Venice and Other Talesby Joachim Neugroschel, Thomas MannISBN 0670874248 (0-670-87424-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Death in Venice and Other Talesby Thomas Mann, Jefferson S. ChaseISBN 0451526090 (0-451-52609-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death in Venice and Other Tales'Book summary:"Death In Venice" tells the tragic story of a man who falls into foolish, forbidden love, only to reap his own ruin. While on holiday in Venice, a dignified older gentleman notices a teenage boy playing on the shore. The boy soon comes to represent the sleek perfection of youth, and the older man finds himself overwhelmed and obsessed with this ideal. Rich in imagery, and exploring the themes of beauty and decay, this book is a disturbing yet memorable work. Also included are seven of Mann's short stories, including "Tristan", "The Child Prodigy", and "Man and Dog". [via]
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Death in Venice : And Seven Other Storiesby Thomas Mann, H.T. Lowe-PorterISBN 0679722068 (0-679-72206-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death in Venice, and Seven Other Stories'Book summary:Eight complex stories illustrative of the author's belief that "a story must tell itself," highlighted by the high art style of the famous title novella. [via]
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Elizabeth Costelloby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0142004812 (0-14-200481-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Fatelessby Imre Kertész, Christopher Wilson, Katharina WilsonISBN 0810110245 (0-8101-1024-5)
Hardcover, Northwestern University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fateless'Book summary:One of Publishers Weekly's Fifty Best Books of 1992
Fateless is a moving and disturbing novel about a Hungarian Jewish boys experiences in German concentration camps and his attempts to reconcile himself to those experiences after the war. Upon his return to his native Budapest still clad in his striped prison clothes, fourteen-year-old George Koves senses the indifference, even hostility, of people on the street. His former neighbors and friends urge him to put the ordeal out of his mind, while a sympathetic journalist refers to the camps as "the lowest circle of hell." The boy can relate to neither cliche and is left to ponder the meaning of his experience alone.
George's response to his experience is curiously ambivalent. In the camps he tries to adjust to his ever-worsening situation by imputing human motives to his inhumane captors. By imposing his logic--that of a bright, sensitive, though in many ways ordinary teenager - he maintains a precarious semblance of normalcy. Once freed, he must contend with the "banality of evil" to which he has become accustomed: when asked why he uses words like "naturally," "undeniably," and "without question" to describe the most horrendous of experiences, he responds, "In the concentration camp it was natural." Without emotional or spiritual ties to his Jewish heritage and rejected by his country, he ultimately comes to the conclusion that neither his Hungarianness nor his Jewishness was really at the heart of his fate: rather, there are only "given situations, and within these, further givens."
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Fatelessnessby Imre Kertesz, Tim WilkinsonISBN 1400078636 (1-4000-7863-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fatelessness'Book summary:At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesnt particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, You are no Jew. In the lowest circle of the Holocaust, Georg remains an outsider.
The genius of Imre Kerteszs unblinking novel lies in its refusal to mitigate the strangeness of its events, not least of which is Georgs dogmatic insistence on making sense of what he witnessesor pretending that what he witnesses makes sense. Haunting, evocative, and all the more horrifying for its rigorous avoidance of sentiment, Fatelessness is a masterpiece in the traditions of Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Tadeusz Borowski. [via]More editions of Fatelessness:
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Good Earthby Pearl S. BuckISBN 0381980332 (0-381-98033-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Earth'Book summary:The story begins on the wedding day of farmer Wang Lung and follows his simple, often one-sided view of the Chinese culture, times, and his connection with the land. The land is a recurring theme throughout the novel, seemingly nurtured by the apparent protagonists, rejected and ruined by the antagonists. The author uses the House of Hwang, a nearby house of nobles, to contrast and predict their rise and fall. As the House of Hwang meets its slow and desperate end, Wang Lung rises.
However, as the weather turns disastrous for farming, Wang Lung's family has to flee to the city to scrape out a meager living. Upon returning home, the family fares better. Wang Lung eventually becomes a prosperous man, his rise contrasting with the downfall of the Hwang family, who lose their connection to the land. At the end of the novel, when Wang Lung is an old man, he overhears his sons plotting to sell some of the land, thus showing the end of the cycle of wealth and downfall. [via]
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The History of the Siege of Lisbonby Jose Saramago, Giovanni PontieroISBN 1860461328 (1-86046-132-8)
Softcover, Harvill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of the Siege of Lisbon'Book summary:"If proofreaders were given their freedom and did not have their hands and feet tied by a mass of prohibitions more binding than the penal code, they would soon transform the face of the world, establish the kingdom of universal happiness, giving drink to the thirsty, food to the famished, peace to those who live in turmoil, joy to the sorrowful ... for they would be able to do all these things simply by changing the words ..." The power of the word is evident in Portuguese author José Saramago's novel, The History of the Siege of Lisbon. His protagonist, a proofreader named Raimundo Silva, adds a key word to a history of Portugal and thus rewrites not only the past, but also his own life.
Brilliantly translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero, The History of the Siege of Lisbon is a meditation on the differences between historiography, historical fiction, and "stories inserted into history." The novel is really two stories in one: the reimagined history of the 1147 siege of Lisbon that Raimundo feels compelled to write and the story of Raimundo's life, including his unexpected love affair with the editor, Maria Sara. In Saramago's masterful hands, the strands of this complex tale weave together to create a satisfying whole. [via]
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- The History of the Siege of Lisbon: ISBN 186046131X (1-86046-131-X)
Hardcover, Harvill - The History of the Siege of Lisbon: ISBN 0156006243 (0-15-600624-3)
Softcover, Harcourt - The History of the Siege of Lisbon: A Novel: ISBN 015100238X (0-15-100238-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt - The History of the Siege of Lisbon: ISBN 1860461328 (1-86046-132-8)
Softcover, Harvill
- The History of the Siege of Lisbon: ISBN 186046131X (1-86046-131-X)
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The Immoralistby Andre Gide, David WatsonISBN 0142180025 (0-14-218002-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Immoralist'Book summary:With today's headlines and talk shows, it takes a lot to shock a reader--certainly more than was required in 1902, when André Gide's The Immoralist was first published. What was seen then as a story of dereliction translates today into a tale of introspection and fierce self-discovery. While traveling to Tunis with his new bride, the Parisian scholar Michel is overcome by tuberculosis. As he slowly convalesces, he revels in the physical pleasures of living and resolves to forgo his studies of the past in order to experience the present--to let "the layers of acquired knowledge peel away from the mind like a cosmetic and reveal, in patches, the naked flesh beneath, the authentic being hidden there."
But this is not the Michel his colleagues knew, nor the man Marceline married, and he must hide his new values under the patina of what he now reviles. Bored by Parisian society, he moves to a family farm in Normandy. He is happy there, especially in the company of young Charles, but he must soon return to the city and academe. Michel remains restless until he gives his first lecture and runs into Ménalque, who has long outraged society, and recognizes in him a reflection of his torment. Finally, Michel heads south, deeper into the desert, until, as he confides to his friends, he is lost in the sea of sand, under a clear, directionless sky.
What Gide's story lacks in sensationalism is fulfilled by his descriptive prose, which evokes the exotic nature of Michel's inner and outer journey: "I did not understand the forbearance of this African earth, submerged for days at a time and now awakening from winter, drunk with water, bursting with new juices; it laughed in this springtime frenzy whose echo, whose image I perceived within myself." --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
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Jazzby Toni MorrisonISBN 1400076218 (1-4000-7621-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jazz'Book summary:Jazz embraces the vibrant music and lifestyle of 1920s Harlem, an urban renaissance of opportunity and glamour. A novel of murder, hard lives, and broken dreams, Jazz sways with a lyric medley of voices and human consciousness.
Narrated by the author, Toni Morrison, this is an intense but gratifying three hours of tape. Background jazz music enhances the feel of '20s Harlem, a city that attracted thousands of black southerners hoping for better lives. Joe Trace and his wife Violet were part of this migration; madly in love with each other and the idea of this urban mecca, they "traindanced into the city." But like so many of the marriages in Morrison's novels, this union crumbles, and the dreams for a better life fade away. Joe finds another, a love "that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going."
In Jazz, time ebbs and flows like human memory, traversing between recollections of the past and expectations for the future; likewise, jazz music is often wild and chaotic. Here Morrison once again exemplifies herself as both a superb writer and a masterful storyteller. [via]
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- Jazz: ISBN 0451177800 (0-451-17780-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Jazz: ISBN 0679411674 (0-679-41167-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Jazz: ISBN 0452269652 (0-452-26965-2)
Softcover, Plume - Jazz: ISBN 051713764X (0-517-13764-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Jazz: ISBN 0785719857 (0-7857-1985-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Jazz: ISBN 0816156247 (0-8161-5624-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Jazz: ISBN 1400076218 (1-4000-7621-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- Jazz: ISBN 0451177800 (0-451-17780-0)
La Pianista / The Pianistby Elfriede JelinekISBN 9879397355 (987-9397-35-5)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Me Llamo Rojo / My Name Is Redby Orhan PamukISBN 8466368876 (84-663-6887-6)
Softcover, Punto De Lectura
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Me Llamo Rojo / My Name Is Red'Book summary:«Encuentra al hombre que me asesinó y te contaré detalladamente lo que hay en la otra vida.» Pamuk ha conseguido una novela total. A la sabiduría de la mejor narración histórica se une el ritmo trepidante de la novela negra y una seductora historia de amor. Me llamo Rojo nos introduce en el esplendor y la decadencia del Imperio Turco, una potencia que llegó hasta las puertas de Viena. Viajamos hasta el siglo XVI, el sultán desea inmortalizar su figura en un lienzo, pero la ley islámica lo prohíbe. La tentación vence y cuatro artistas trabajarán en secreto, elaborando un libro lleno de imágenes nunca antes pintadas. Hasta que uno de ellos desaparece. Después de El libro negro y La vida nueva, el lector en español puede adentrarse en otra novela "un puzzle filosófico y fantástico en el que se cruzan el arte, la religión, el amor, el sexo y el poder" de uno de los autores que despierta más expectación internacional. [via]
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Midaq Alleyby Naguib MahfouzISBN 0385264763 (0-385-26476-3)
Softcover, Doubleday
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midaq Alley'Book summary:Centred around the residents of one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo: Kirsha, the cafe-owner with a scandalous predilection for young boys, Hamida, the matchmaker's daughter, and Zaita, the cripple-maker - who maims and disfigures people who wish to become beggars. [via]
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- Midaq Alley: ISBN 0894106589 (0-89410-658-9)
Softcover, Lynne Rienner Pub - Midaq Alley: ISBN 0385264755 (0-385-26475-5)
Hardcover, Anchor Books - Midaq Alley: ISBN 0435901516 (0-435-90151-6)
Hardcover, Heinemann Educational - Midaq Alley: ISBN 9774240588 (977-424-058-8)
Hardcover, American University in Cairo Press - Midaq Alley: ISBN 0385264763 (0-385-26476-3)
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- Midaq Alley: ISBN 0894106589 (0-89410-658-9)
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My Name Is Redby Orhan Pamuk, Erdag M. GoknarISBN 0375706852 (0-375-70685-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Name Is Red'Book summary:From one of the most important and acclaimed writers at work today, a thrilling new novelpart murder mystery, part love storyset amid the perils of religious repression in sixteenth-century Istanbul.
When the Sultan commissions a great book to celebrate his royal self and his extensive dominion, he directs Enishte Effendi to assemble a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land. Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style. But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam, this commission is a dangerous proposition indeed, and no one in the elite circle can know the full scope or nature of the project.
Panic erupts when one of the chosen miniaturists disappears, and the Sultan demands answers within three days. The only clue to the mysteryor crime?lies in the half-finished illuminations themselves. Has an avenging angel discovered the blasphemous work? Or is a jealous contender for the hand of Enishtes ravishing daughter, the incomparable Shekure, somehow to blame?
Orhan Pamuks My Name Is Red is at once a fantasy and a philosophical puzzle, a kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex, and power. [via] -
Narcissus and Goldmundby Hermann Hesse, Ursule MolinaroISBN 0312421672 (0-312-42167-2)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Narcissus and Goldmund'Book summary:Hesse's novel of two medieval men, one quietly content with his religion and monastic life, the other in fervent search of more worldly salvation. This conflict between flesh and spirit, between emotional and contemplative man, was a life study for Hesse. It is a theme that transcends all time. The Hesse Phenomenon "has turned into a vogue, the vogue into a torrent. . .He has appealed both to. . . an underground and to an establishment. . .and to the disenchanted young sharing his contempt for our industrial civilization."-- The New York Times Book Review [via]
Nauseaby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0811217000 (0-8112-1700-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nausea'Book summary:Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature. Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, critic, novelist and dramatist, hold a position of singular eminence in the world of French letters. Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre's work, it is generally recognized that his earliest novel, Le Nausée (first published in 1938), is his finest and most significant. It is unquestionably a key novel of the Twentieth Century and a landmark in Existentialist fiction.
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spread at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our timethe time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain." Roquentin's efforts to come to terms with his life, his philosophical and psychological struggles, give Sartre the opportunity to dramatize trhe tents of his Existentialist creed.
he introduction for this edition of Nausea by Hayden Carruth gives background on Sartre's life and major works, a summary of the principal themes of Existentialist philosophy, and a critical analysis of the novel itself. [via]-
Nightby Elie Wiesel, Marion WieselISBN 0374500010 (0-374-50001-0)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night'Book summary:A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel[via]
Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man.
Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.More editions of Night:
- Night: ISBN 0374399972 (0-374-39997-2)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - Night: ISBN 0821924184 (0-8219-2418-4)
Hardcover, Emc Pub - Night: ISBN 0380009951 (0-380-00995-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Night: ISBN 0553208071 (0-553-20807-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Night: ISBN 0553272535 (0-553-27253-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Night: ISBN 0809073552 (0-8090-7355-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - Night: ISBN 0809073560 (0-8090-7356-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - Night: ISBN 0374500010 (0-374-50001-0)
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- Night: ISBN 0374399972 (0-374-39997-2)
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One More River to Cross: Black and Gay in Americaby Keith BoykinISBN 0385479832 (0-385-47983-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One More River to Cross: Black and Gay in America'Book summary:In the aftermath of the historic 1993 March on Washington for gay and lesbian rights, Keith Boykin, in One More River to Cross, clarifies the relationship between blacks and gays in America by portraying the "common ground" lives of those who are both black and gay.
Against a backdrop of civil rights and the black experience in America, Boykin interviews Baptist ministers, gay political leaders, and other black gays and lesbians on issues of faith, family, discrimination, and visibility to determine what differences--real and imagined--separate the two communities. Boykin points to evidence of African and precolonial same-sex behavior, as well as figures like James Baldwin and Bayard Rustin, to dispel the myth that homosexuality is a "white thang," while his research suggests that blacks are less homophobic than whites, despite the rhetoric of rap and religion. With stories from his own experience as well as that of other black gays and lesbians, Boykin targets gay racism and black homophobia and suggests that conservative forces have substituted the common language of racism for homophobia in order to prevent a potentially powerful coalition of blacks and gays.
By portraying what it means to be black and gay, One More River to Cross offers an extraordinary window into a community that challenges this country's acceptance of its minorities, both racial and sexual. [via]More editions of One More River to Cross: Black and Gay in America:
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Palace Walkby Naguib MahfouzISBN 0385264666 (0-385-26466-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Palace Walk'Book summary:Palace Walk is the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouzs magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.
The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sonsthe tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. The familys trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two world wars, as change comes to a society that has resisted it for centuries.
Translated by William Maynard Hutchins and Olive E. Kenny
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The Piano Teacherby Elfriede JelinekISBN 1555840523 (1-55584-052-3)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Piano Teacher'Book summary:The Piano Teacher, the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a shocking, searing, aching portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires.[via]
Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears to be a seamless tissue of boredom, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night to watch live sex shows and sadomasochistic films. Meanwhile, a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student has become enamored with Erika and sets out to seduce her. She resists him at first, but then the dark passions roiling under the piano teacher's subdued exterior explode in a release of sexual perversity, suppressed violence, and human degradation.
Celebrated throughout Europe for the intensity and frankness of her writings and awarded the Heinrich Böll Prize for her outstanding contribution to German letters, Elfriede Jelinek is one of the most original and controversial writers in the world today. The Piano Teacher was made into a film, released in the United States in 2001, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.More editions of The Piano Teacher:
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The Piano Teacherby Joachim Neugroschel, Elfriede JelinekISBN 1852427507 (1-85242-750-7)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Piano Teacher'Book summary:The Piano Teacher Elfriede Jelinek Deep passion, thwarted sexuality and love-hate for a mother dominate the life of Erika Kohut, a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory. Into this emotional pressure-cooker bounds Walter Klemmer, music student and ladies' man. Jelinek's masterpiece, The Piano Teacher was for Publishers' Weekly "Brilliant and uncompromising." [via]
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Private Partsby Howard SternISBN 0671009443 (0-671-00944-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Private Parts'Book summary:The #1 bestseller and fastest selling autobiography of all time, "Private Parts, " will be released on March 14 as a major motion picture from Paramount Pictures and Rysher Entertainment. This is the event Stern's millions of fans have been waiting for. Yes, The King of All Media is back, letting it all hang out in his outrageous new movie. And here is the book that tracks the odyssey. In "Private Parts" Stern spills his life story, from his dysfunctional beginnings to his unlikely, turbulent rise to super stardom. In the process, he shares his views on everything from foreign policy to fatherhood and Madonna to masturbation, with lots of lesbians in between. No matter whose side you're on -- Cher's "I hate him. He's just a creep, " or Stallone's "I love him. I really love him" -- Stern's brutally frank "Don't ask, I'll tell" tome spares no group or institution.
Studded throughout with Howard's favorite photos, pickings from the Hate-Mailbag and illustrations, this is the original, in-your-face manifesto complete with movie art that will once again have fans storming the bookstores...and everyone else running for cover. [via]
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Seize the Dayby Saul BellowISBN 0380016494 (0-380-01649-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seize the Day'Book summary:[This is the MP3CD audiobook format.]
Can one man come to terms with his past in one of the greatest short novels ever written?
Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children; at odds with his vain, successful father; failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as ''the type that loses the girl''); and in a financial mess. In the course of one climactic day he reviews his past mistakes and spiritual malaise, until a mysterious, philosophizing con man grants him a glorious, illuminating moment of truth and understanding and offers him one last hope. [via]
Seize the Day, With Three Short Stories and a One-Act Play.by Saul BellowISBN 0670000914 (0-670-00091-4)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Snow Countryby Yasunari Kawabata, Edward SeidenstickerISBN 0679761047 (0-679-76104-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snow Country'Book summary:Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's masterpiece: a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome. In chronicling the course of this doomed romance, Kawabata has created a story for the ages - a stunning novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness. [via]
View With a Grain of Sandby Wislawa Szymborska, Clare Cavanagh, Stanisaw BaranczakISBN 0156002167 (0-15-600216-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'View With a Grain of Sand'Book summary:True, the gentlemen of the Swedish Academy have made more than their share of bloopers. But when they bestowed the Nobel Prize upon Wislawa Szymborska in 1996, they got it right, rescuing a major poet from minor obscurity. Two previous collections of her work had appeared in English, of course. Yet View with a Grain of Sand is by far the best introduction to the Polish writer, conveying not only the fantastic lightness of her touch but the entire worlds she manages to pack into, as it were, a grain of sand. Miniscule wonders are her specialty, such as the tableau she records in "Miracle Fair": "The usual miracle: / invisible dogs barking / in the dead of night. / One of many miracles: / a small and airy cloud / is able to upstage the massive moon." Yet Szymborska is also a love poet of peculiar tartness:
True love. Is it really necessary?
Tact and common sense tell us to pass over it in silence,
like a scandal in Life's highest circles.
Perfectly good children are born without its help.
It couldn't populate the planet in a million years,
it comes along so rarely.
What comes along so rarely, in fact, is a writer of this quality--and a translation that does her justice. Szymborska's brilliance would probably overpower even a second-rate rendering into English. But thanks to the efforts of Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, she is not only brilliant but supremely readable--an intellectual comedian for whom "there's nothing more debauched than thinking." [via]
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The Waste Land and Other Poemsby T. S. Eliot, Randy MalamudISBN 1593082797 (1-59308-279-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land and Other Poems'Book summary:After sitting through T.S. Eliot's reading of "The Waste Land," listeners may be inclined to hang up the earphones for a spell. There are no flaws to Eliot's steady-toned interpretation; in fact, his delivery is quite remarkable in its ability to match the poem's constant, somber mood. It's just that 25-plus minutes of Eliot's desolate landscapes--rendered even more real by the author's incessant tones--can wear on the emotions.
In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]
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- The Waste Land and Other Poems: ISBN 015694877X (0-15-694877-X)
Softcover, Harcourt - The Waste Land: ISBN 0451526848 (0-451-52684-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Waste Land and Other Poems: ISBN 0899668984 (0-89966-898-4)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - The Waste Land and Other Poems: ISBN 1593082797 (1-59308-279-7)
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The Waste Land and Other Writingsby T. S. EliotISBN 0375759344 (0-375-75934-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land and Other Writings'Book summary:First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, breaking decisively with Romantic and Victorian poetic traditions. Kenneth Rexroth was not alone in calling Eliot "the representative poet of the time, for the same reason that Shakespeare and Pope were of theirs. He articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression."
As influential as his verse, T.S. Eliot's criticism also exerted a transformative effect on twentieth-century letter, and this new edition of The Waste Land and Other Writings includes a selection of Eliot's most important essays.
In her new Introduction, Mary Karr dispels some of the myths of the great poem's inaccessibility and sheds fresh light on the ways in which "The Waste Land" illuminates contemporary experience. [via]More editions of The Waste Land and Other Writings:
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The Waste Land, Prufrock And Other Poemsby T. S. Eliot, Caroldean K. CummingsISBN 1420925784 (1-4209-2578-4)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land, Prufrock And Other Poems'Book summary:After sitting through T.S. Eliot's reading of "The Waste Land," listeners may be inclined to hang up the earphones for a spell. There are no flaws to Eliot's steady-toned interpretation; in fact, his delivery is quite remarkable in its ability to match the poem's constant, somber mood. It's just that 25-plus minutes of Eliot's desolate landscapes--rendered even more real by the author's incessant tones--can wear on the emotions.
In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]
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El Callejon De Los Milagrosby Naguib Mahfouz, Helena ValentiISBN 8483270005 (84-8327-000-5)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Historia Del Cerco De LisboaISBN 9681906012 (968-19-0601-2)
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Me Llamo Rojo/my Name Is Redby Orhan Pamuk, Orhan PamurISBN 8466313516 (84-663-1351-6)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Me Llamo Rojo/my Name Is Red'Book summary:In 16th-century Istanbul, master miniaturist and illuminator of books Enishte Effendi is commissioned to illustrate a book celebrating the sultan. Soon he lies dead at the bottom of a well. How he got there is the crux of this novel. Narrators give & the reader not only a nontraditional murder mystery but insight into the mores and customs of the time. & Description in Spanish: Me llamo Rojo nos introduce en el esplendor y la decadencia del Imperio Turco. Viajamos hasta el siglo XVI, el sultán desea inmortalizar su figura en un lienzo, pero la ley islámica lo prohíbe. La tentación vence y cuatro artistas trabajarán en secreto, elaborando un libro lleno de imágenes nunca antes pintadas. Hasta que uno de ellos desaparece. Pamuk ha conseguido una novela total. A la sabiduría de la mejor tradición histórica se unen el ritmo trepidante de la novela negra y una seductora historia de amor. [via]
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La Nausea/nauseaby Jean Paul SartreISBN 9500392623 (950-03-9262-3)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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Historia Do Cerco De Lisboaby Jose SaramagoISBN 8571640351 (85-7164-035-1)
Hardcover, Caminho
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La Nauseeby Jean-Paul SartreISBN 207036805X (2-07-036805-X)
Softcover, Gallimard, Editions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Nausee'Book summary:256pages. poche. broché. Donc j'étais tout à l'heure au Jardin public. La racine du marronnier s'enfonçait dans la terre, juste au-dessous de mon banc. Je ne me rappelais plus que c'était une racine. Les mots s'étaient évanouis et, avec eux, la signification des choses, leurs modes d'emploi, les faibles repères que les hommes ont tracés à leur surface. J'étais assis, un peu voûté, la tête basse, seul en face de cette masse noire et noueuse entièrement brute et qui me faisait peur. Et puis j'ai eu cette illumination. Ca m'a coupé le souffle. Jamais, avant ces derniers jours, je n'avais pressenti ce que voulait dire exister. [via]
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Benim Adm Krmzby Orhan PamukISBN 9754707111 (975-470-711-1)
Hardcover, Iletisim
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2006 Nobel Edebiyat Ödüllü Orhan Pamuk 100'ü askin ülkede 46 dilde okunuyor.
Orhan Pamuk'un "en renkli ve en iyimser romanim", dedigi "Benim Adim Kirmizi", 1591 yilinda istanbul'da karli dokuz kis gününde geçiyor. iki küçük oglu birbirleriyle sürekli çatisan güzel Seküre, dört yildir savastan dönmeyen kocasinin yerine kendine yeni bir koca, sevgili aramaya baslayinca, o sirada babasinin tek tek eve çagirdigi saray nakkaslarini saklandigi yerden seyreder. Eve gelen usta nakkaslar, babasinin denetimi altinda Osmanli Padisahi'nin gizlice yaptirttigi bir kitap için Frenk etkisi tasiyan tehlikeli resimler yapmaktadirlar. Aralarindan biri öldürülünce, Seküre'ye asik, teyzesinin oglu Kara devreye girer. istanbul'da bir vaizin etrafinda toplanmis, tekkelere karsi bir çevrenin baskilari, pahalilik ve korku hüküm sürerken, geceleri bir kahvede toplanan nakkaslar ve hattatlar sivri dilli bir meddahin anlattigi hikayelerle eglenirler. Herkesin kendi sesiyle konustugu, ölülerin, esyalarin dillendigi, ölüm, sanat, ask, evlilik ve mutluluk üzerine bu kitap, ayni zamanda eski resim sanatinin unutulmus güzelliklerine bir agit.
"Genç Türk Romancisi Orhan Pamuk, Avrupa'ya roman nasil yazilir, gösteriyor."
- Frankfurter Allegemeine, Almanya
"Orhan Pamuk'u herkes okumali."
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Die Klavierspielerin: Romanby Elfriede JelinekISBN 3498033166 (3-498-03316-6)
Hardcover, Rowohlt
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Sorstalansag: Regenyby Imre KerteszISBN 9631502929 (963-15-0292-9)
Hardcover, Szepirodalmi Konyvkiado
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