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Adventures of Augie Marchby Saul BellowISBN 1417703911 (1-4177-0391-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Against the Grainby Joris Karl Huysmans, John HowardISBN 1406505714 (1-4065-0571-4)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against the Grain'Book summary:A Rebours (Against the Grain) (1884), was a break from Naturalism for the French writer, and became the ultimate example of 'decadent' literature. It features a single character, the aesthete Des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive antihero. It gained further notoriety as an exhibit during the trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895, during which the prosecutor referred to the novel as a "sodomitical" book. [via]
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All Families Are Psychoticby Douglas CouplandISBN 1582342156 (1-58234-215-6)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Families Are Psychotic'Book summary:Canadian author Douglas Coupland's seventh novel could be subtitled When Bad Things Happen to Bad People. As the estranged members of the Drummond family straggle into Florida for youngest sister Sarah's impending space shuttle launch, we only begin to glimpse the true meaning of the word dysfunctional. The family, plagued by terminal disease, financial disaster, felonious activity, infidelity, and violence, is forced--by a series of ever more fantastic occurrences--to attempt to deal with each other. That would be an easier task if they didn't loathe one another with a ferocity usually reserved for war criminals. It's not quite Jerry Springer-style tabloid TV set in Disney's Haunted Mansion, but the family members do muster the strength to insult, assault, and infect one another with abandon. With the exception of the family matriarch, Janet, they are unappealing and selfish, but without Machiavellian brilliance. Instead, they're inclined toward out-and-out stupidity, blinded by self-interest rather than enlightened by it. As they bumble through misadventure after misadventure, there seems to be no reason to cheer for them. Even Sarah, the family's shining star, has her dark side.
True to Coupland's style, the book reads lightning fast. The author punctuates his narrative with clipped dialogue and punchy exchanges that advance the palpable sense of unease and tension running throughout. And amidst the acrimony, Coupland throws a genuine caper into the plot, involving Prince William's farewell letter to his mother, Princess Diana. Add to that the oppressive heat and the postmodern, pop culture junkyard of Coupland's Florida setting, and the entire book brews and builds like a roiling tropical storm. --S. Duda [via]
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Angela's Ashesby Frank McCourtISBN 156895963X (1-56895-963-X)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angela's Ashes'Book summary:"When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. People everywhere brag or whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying shcoolmasters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years. Above all we were wet!" So begins Frank McCourt's stunning memoir of his childhood in Ireland and America, a recollection of unvarnished truth and no self pity, of grinding poverty and indomitable spirit that will live in the memory long after the tape has ended. Now a major film directed by Alan Parker and starring Robert Carlyle and Emily Watson. [via]
The Bone Peopleby Keri HulmeISBN 1417702931 (1-4177-0293-1)
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The Bonesetter's Daughterby Amy TanISBN 1417669985 (1-4176-6998-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bonesetter's Daughter'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. [via]
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Bostoniansby Henry James, Siri HustvedtISBN 1593082975 (1-59308-297-5)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bostonians'Book summary:[via]The Bostonians, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Nearly a century before the birth of the contemporary feminist movement, Henry James dealt with its nineteenth-century forerunner in The Bostonians. Mixing acute social observation and psychological analysis with mordant humor, James hangs his story on a unique instance of the traditional romantic triangle. At its apex stands the vibrantly beautiful Verena Tarrant, an intense public speaker who arouses the passions of two very different people. Olive Chancellor, a Boston-bred suffragette, dreams of turning Verena into a fiery campaigner for womens rights. Basil Ransom, a Mississippi-bred lawyer, dreams of turning her into his wife. As these two struggle for possession of Verenas souland bodytheir confusions, crises, and conflicts begin almost preternaturally to prefigure todays sexual politics. In fact, Jamess complex portrait of Olive and her ideals, savagely satirical yet sympathetic and so controversial when it first appeared, continues to evoke both anger and admiration. But he treats Verena and Basil with equal complexity, climaxed by the novels quietly haunting final sentence.
Siri Hustvedt earned a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University in 1986 and is the author of a book of poetry, Reading to You; three novels: The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, and What I Loved; and a book of essays, Yonder.
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The Club Dumasby Arturo Perez-ReverteISBN 8420481025 (84-204-8102-5)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Club Dumas'Book summary:Lucas Corso is a bibliophilic mercenary in the middle to two searches. He needs to prove if a manuscript of The Three Musketeers is genuine. He must also find the solution to the enigma of a diabolic book, burned with the printer in 1667, and of which only two other copies are known. The mystery leads him from the Holy Office to books condemned by the Vatican; from dusty old bookstores to the most select libraries owned by important international collectors.
Description in Spanish: Descifrar el misterio de un libro que invoca al demonio, del que sólo quedan tres ejemplares en el mundo, se convirtió para Lucas Corso, comprador de libros antiguos por encargo, en peligrosa aventura. Pero por si esto fuera poco, un capítulo manuscrito de los tres mosqueteros de Alejandro Dumas entra en escena y se entremezclan historias para dar origen a un apasionante thriller al mejor estilo de Arturo Pérez-Reverte. "El club Dumas" (1993), una de las novelas más emblemáticas del autor, constituye un modelo ejemplar de utilización de los más genuinos ingredientes de la novela de intriga, de investigación criminal, ambientación histórica y ficción culturalista, además de ser un homenaje al maestro del folletín decimonónico, Alejandro Dumas. Esta novela ha sido llevada a la gran pantalla por Roman Polanski con el título "La novena puerta". [via]
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Daughter of Fortuneby Isabel AllendeISBN 1417755946 (1-4177-5594-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daughter of Fortune'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 2000: Until Isabel Allende burst onto the scene with her 1985 debut, The House of the Spirits, Latin American fiction was, for the most part, a boys' club comprising such heavy hitters as Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Mario Vargas Llosa. But the Chilean Allende shouldered her way in with her magical realist multi-generational tale of the Trueba family, followed it up with four more novels and a spate of nonfiction, and has remained in a place of honor ever since. Her sixth work of fiction, Daughter of Fortune, shares some characteristics with her earlier works: the canvas is wide, the characters are multi-generational and multi-ethnic, and the protagonist is an unconventional woman who overcomes enormous obstacles to make her way in the world. Yet one cannot accuse Allende of telling the same story twice; set in the mid-1800s, this novel follows the fortunes of Eliza Sommers, Chilean by birth but adopted by a British spinster, Rose Sommers, and her bachelor brother, Jeremy, after she is abandoned on their doorstep.
"You have English blood, like us," Miss Rose assured Eliza when she was old enough to understand. "Only someone from the British colony would have thought to leave you in a basket on the doorstep of the British Import and Export Company, Limited. I am sure they knew how good-hearted my brother Jeremy is, and felt sure he would take you in. In those days I was longing to have a child, and you fell into my arms, sent by God to be brought up in the solid principles of the Protestant faith and the English language."
The family servant, Mama Fresia, has a different point of view, however: "You, English? Don't get any ideas, child. You have Indian hair, like mine." And certainly Eliza's almost mystical ability to recall all the events of her life would seem to stem more from the Indian than the Protestant side.As Eliza grows up, she becomes less tractable, and when she falls in love with Joachin Andieta, a clerk in Jeremy's firm, her adoptive family is horrified. They are even more so when a now-pregnant Eliza follows her lover to California where he has gone to make his fortune in the 1849 gold rush. Along the way Eliza meets Tao Chi'en, a Chinese doctor who saves her life and becomes her closest friend. What starts out as a search for a lost love becomes, over time, the discovery of self; and by the time Eliza finally catches up with the elusive Joachin, she is no longer sure she still wants what she once wished for. Allende peoples her novel with a host of colorful secondary characters. She even takes the narrative as far afield as China, providing an intimate portrait of Tao Chi'en's past before returning to 19th-century San Francisco, where he and Eliza eventually fetch up. Readers with a taste for the epic, the picaresque, and romance that is satisfyingly complex will find them all in Daughter of Fortune. --Margaret Prior [via]
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Desayuno En Tiffany's / Breakfast at Tiffany'sby Truman CapoteISBN 8433920170 (84-339-2017-0)
Softcover, Editorial Anagrama
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desayuno En Tiffany's / Breakfast at Tiffany's'Book summary:La protagonista de esta novela es quizas el mas seductor personaje creado por ese maestro de la seduccion que fue Capote. Atractiva sin ser guapa, despues de rechazar una carrera de actriz, Holly se ocnvierte en estrella del Nueva York mas sofisticado. Mezcla de picardia e inocencia, de astucia y autenticidad, Holly vive en la provisionalidad permanente, sin pasado, no queriendo pertenecer a nada ni a nadie y vive sonando en ese paraiso que para ella es Tiffany's la famosa joyeria neoyorquina. Esta extraordinaria novela corta bastaria para consagrar a un autor. [via]
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Dublinersby James Joyce, Del DoughtyISBN 1416500359 (1-4165-0035-9)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dubliners'Book summary:Classic Irish Literature; Irish Studies; Literary Studies [via]
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Dublineses / Dublinersby James JoyceISBN 8420639176 (84-206-3917-6)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dublineses / Dubliners'Book summary:En esta coleccion de sutiles relatos que James Joyce comenzo a escribir en 1904 y que sera publicada completa solo diez anos despues, luego de tortuosas peripecias editoriales, pueden leerse anticipaciones del estilo y la compleja vision del mundo que desarrollara despues en su obra capital Ulises. Dublineses puede leerse, y efectivamente lo es, como un minucioso fresco de un lugar y una epoca. Traduccion y prologo de Marcos Mayer. [via]
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El Club Dumasby Perez ReverteISBN 9681903862 (968-19-0386-2)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Club Dumas'Book summary:Lucas Corso is a bibliophilic mercenary in the middle to two searches. He needs to prove if a manuscript of The Three Musketeers is genuine. He must also find the solution to the enigma of a diabolic book, burned with the printer in 1667, and of which only two other copies are known. The mystery leads him from the Holy Office to books condemned by the Vatican; from dusty old bookstores to the most select libraries owned by important international collectors.
Description in Spanish: Descifrar el misterio de un libro que invoca al demonio, del que sólo quedan tres ejemplares en el mundo, se convirtió para Lucas Corso, comprador de libros antiguos por encargo, en peligrosa aventura. Pero por si esto fuera poco, un capítulo manuscrito de los tres mosqueteros de Alejandro Dumas entra en escena y se entremezclan historias para dar origen a un apasionante thriller al mejor estilo de Arturo Pérez-Reverte. "El club Dumas" (1993), una de las novelas más emblemáticas del autor, constituye un modelo ejemplar de utilización de los más genuinos ingredientes de la novela de intriga, de investigación criminal, ambientación histórica y ficción culturalista, además de ser un homenaje al maestro del folletín decimonónico, Alejandro Dumas. Esta novela ha sido llevada a la gran pantalla por Roman Polanski con el título "La novena puerta". [via]
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El Otono Del Patriarca / the Autumn of the Patriarchby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 9500705117 (950-07-0511-7)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Otono Del Patriarca / the Autumn of the Patriarch'Book summary:This one of the most important novels written by this author which everyone must read. [via]
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- El Otono Del Patriarca / the Autumn of the Patriarch: ISBN 8401301556 (84-01-30155-6)
Hardcover, Plaza & Janes - El Otono Del Patriarca / the Autumn of the Patriarch: ISBN 8402067050 (84-02-06705-0)
Hardcover, Bruguera - El Otono Del Patriarca / the Autumn of the Patriarch: ISBN 8439711123 (84-397-1112-3)
Hardcover, Aims Intl Books Corp - El Otono Del Patriarca / the Autumn of the Patriarch: ISBN 9500705117 (950-07-0511-7)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
- El Otono Del Patriarca / the Autumn of the Patriarch: ISBN 8401301556 (84-01-30155-6)
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Equal Ritesby Terry PratchettISBN 1856953874 (1-85695-387-4)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Equal Rites'Book summary:The third Discworld novel.
They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
There are some situations where the correct response is to display the sort of ignorance which happily and wilfully flies in the face of the facts. In this case, the birth of a baby girl, born a wizard -- by mistake. Everybody knows that there's no such thing as a female wizard. But now it's gone and happened, there's nothing much anyone can do about it. Let the battle of the sexes begin. [via]More editions of Equal Rites:
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 159224646X (1-59224-646-X)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924) was one of the most remarkable figures in English literature. Born in Poland, and originally named Josef Teodor Konrad Walecz Korzeniowski, he went to sea at the age of seventeen and eventually joined the crew of an English vessel, becoming a British citizen in the process. He retired from the sea in 1894 and took up the pen, writing all his works in English, a language he had only learned as an adult. Despite this, he was a master stylist, both lush and precise. His outsider's eye gave him special insights into the moral dangers of the great age of European empires. The book you hold in your hands -- Conrad's immortal HEART OF DARKNESS -- was the basis for the renowned film, APOCALYPSE NOW. [via]
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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharerby Joseph ConradISBN 1566194903 (1-56619-490-3)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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Herzogby Saul Bellow, Rafael Vazquez ZamoraISBN 849793332X (84-9793-332-X)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Herzog'Book summary:Aunque su vida se desintegra paulatinamente ante sus ojos -ha fracasado como profesor y como padre, amén de ser abandonado por su mujer en favor de su mejor amigo-, Herzog se ve a sí mismo como un sobreviviente, tanto frente a sus desastres domésticos como al pasar de los años. Ocupa su tiempo escribiendo cartas que nunca serán enviadas, a amigos y enemigos, a colegas y a gente famosa, revelando con ironía sus percepciones del mundo que lo rodea, así como los secretos más profundos de su alma.
Saludado como uno de los libros más revelantes de la literatura anglosajona del siglo XX, Herzog catapultó a su autor a pedestales reservados, hasta ese momento, a autores como William Faulkner, Mark Twain o Ernest Hemingway, y le abrió las puertas para obtener el premio Nobel de Literatura. [via]More editions of Herzog:
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Hija De La Fortuna / Daughter of Fortuneby Isabel AllendeISBN 8484500152 (84-8450-015-2)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hija De La Fortuna / Daughter of Fortune'Book summary:Eliza Sommers es una joven chilena que vive en Valparaíso en 1849, el año en que se descubre oro en California. Su amante, Joaquín Andieta, parte hacia el norte decidido a encontrar fortuna, y ella decide seguirlo. El viaje infernal, escondida en la cala de un velero, y la búsqueda de su amante en una tierra de hombres solos y prostitutas atraídos por la fiebre del oro, transforman a la joven inocente en una mujer fuera de lo común. Eliza recibe ayuda y afecto de Tao Chi'en, un médico chino, quien la conducirá de la mano en un itinerario memorable por los misterios y contradicciónes de la condición humana. hija de la fortuna es un retrato palpitante de una época marcada por la violencia y la codicia en la cual los protagonistas rescatan el amor, la amistad, la compasión y el valor.
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Hungerby Knut HamsunISBN 1421990458 (1-4219-9045-8)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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Illustrated Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nicklebyby Charles DickensISBN 0025313509 (0-02-531350-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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James Joyce's Dublinersby James JoyceISBN 1555460194 (1-55546-019-4)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Jonathan Livingston Seagullby Richard Bach, Russell MunsonISBN 0025045415 (0-02-504541-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull'Book summary:"Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight--how to get from shore to food and back again," writes author Richard Bach in this allegory about a unique bird named Jonathan Livingston Seagull. "For most gulls it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight." Flight is indeed the metaphor that makes the story soar. Ultimately this is a fable about the importance of seeking a higher purpose in life, even if your flock, tribe, or neighborhood finds your ambition threatening. (At one point our beloved gull is even banished from his flock.) By not compromising his higher vision, Jonathan gets the ultimate payoff: transcendence. Ultimately, he learns the meaning of love and kindness. The dreamy seagull photographs by Russell Munson provide just the right illustrations--although the overall packaging does seem a bit dated (keep in mind that it was first published in 1970). Nonetheless, this is a spirituality classic, and an especially engaging parable for adolescents. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Kimby Rudyard KiplingISBN 1417905646 (1-4179-0564-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- Kim: ISBN 1593081928 (1-59308-192-8)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Kim: ISBN 1853260991 (1-85326-099-1)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Kim: ISBN 1592245404 (1-59224-540-4)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr - Kim: ISBN 1842329456 (1-84232-945-6)
Hardcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated - Kim: ISBN 8431625899 (84-316-2589-9)
Softcover, Vicens-Vives Editorial S.A. - Kim: ISBN 1417905646 (1-4179-0564-6)
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- Kim: ISBN 1593081928 (1-59308-192-8)
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Kimby Maire Fhlathuin, Marie Ni FhlathuinISBN 1551115212 (1-55111-521-2)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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LA Dalia Negraby James Ellroy, Albert SoleISBN 8466617027 (84-666-1702-7)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Dalia Negra'Book summary:El 15 de enero de 1947, en un solar de Los Angeles, aparecio el cadaver desnudo y seccionado en dos de una mujer joven. El medico forense determino que la habian torturado durante dias. Elizabeth Short, de 22 anos, llamada la Dalia Negra, llevara a los detectives a los bajos fondos de Hollywood, para asi involucrar a ciertas personas adineradas de Los Angeles. Ambos estan obsesionados por lo que fue la vida de la Dalia Negra, y, sobre todo, por capturar al individuo que la asesino. [via]
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Las Cenizas De Angela: Una Memoria/Angela's Ashes a Memoirby Frank McCourtISBN 846630665X (84-663-0665-X)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 1420925296 (1-4209-2529-6)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became "show pupil" - a little princess. Then her father dies and his wealth disappears, and Sara has to learn to cope with her changed circumstances. Her strong character enables her to fight successfully against her new-found poverty and the scorn of her fellows. [via]
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- A Little Princess: ISBN 185326136X (1-85326-136-X)
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Hardcover, Courage Books - A Little Princess: ISBN 1596792469 (1-59679-246-9)
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A Little Princessby Dalmatian Press StaffISBN 1577595599 (1-57759-559-9)
Hardcover, Dalmatian Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett, Louise Colln, Jon Sayer, Publisher: Dalmatian Pr Keywords: children, classics, press, dalmatian, princess, little Pages: 182 Published: 2003-01 Language: English Category: Short Stories, Literature & Fiction, ISBN-10: 1577595599 ISBN-13: 9781577595595 Binding: Hardcover [via]
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Memoires d Hadrienby Marquerite YourcenarISBN 2070369218 (2-07-036921-8)
Softcover, Gallimard
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoires d Hadrien'Book summary:364pages. poche. Broché. [via]
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Memorias De Adrianoby Marguerite YourcenarISBN 9871138695 (987-1138-69-5)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memorias De Adriano'Book summary:La conjuncion de la mas importante novela historica de los ultimos tiempos y de la version castellana del gran narrador argentino hacen de este volumen un verdadero acontecimiento literario.
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Murder on the Orient Expressby Agatha ChristieISBN 0002315394 (0-00-231539-4)
Hardcover, Collins for the Crime Club
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Nights at the Circusby Angela Carter, Emma RiceISBN 1840026316 (1-84002-631-6)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Novels, 1942-1952by John Steinbeck, Robert DemottISBN 1931082073 (1-931082-07-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Novels, 1942-1952'Book summary:This third volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck's writings shows one of America's most enduring popular writers continuing restlessly to explore new subject matter and new approaches to storytelling.[via]
The Moon Is Down (1942), set in an unnamed Scandinavian country under German occupation, dramatizes the transformation of ordinary life under totalitarian rule and the underground struggle against the Nazi invaders. In Cannery Row (1945) Steinbeck paid tribute to his closest friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, in the central character of Doc, proprietor of the Western Biological Laboratory and spiritual and financial mainstay of a cast of philosophical drifters and hangers-on. The comic and bawdy evocation of the main street of Monterey's sardine-canning district has made this one of the most popular of all Steinbeck's novels. Steinbeck's long involvement with Mexican culture is distilled in The Pearl (1947). Expanding on an anecdote he had heard about a boy who found a pearl of unusual size, Steinbeck turned it into an allegory of the corrupting influence of sudden wealth. The Pearl appears here with the original illustrations by José Clemente Orozco.
Ambitious in scale and original in structure, East of Eden (1952) recounts the violent and emotionally turbulent history of a Salinas Valley family through several generations. Drawing on Biblical parallels, East of Eden is an epic that explores the writer's deepest and most anguished concerns within a landscape that for him had mythic resonance.More editions of Novels, 1942-1952:
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Pantagruel Gargantuaby Francois RabelaisISBN 1840221070 (1-84022-107-0)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
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The Pilot's Wifeby Anita ShreveISBN 1568951469 (1-56895-146-9)
Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pilot's Wife'Book summary:With five novels to her credit, including the acclaimed The Weight of Water, Anita Shreve now offers a skillfully crafted exploration of the long reach of tragedy in The Pilot's Wife. News of Jack Lyons's fatal crash sends his wife into shock and emotional numbness:
Kathryn wished she could manage a coma. Instead, it seemed that quite the opposite had happened: She felt herself to be inside of a private weather system, one in which she was continuously tossed and buffeted by bits of news and information, sometimes chilled by thoughts of what lay immediately ahead, thawed by the kindness of others ... frequently drenched by memories that seemed to have no regard for circumstance or place, and then subjected to the nearly intolerable heat of reporters, photographers and curious on-lookers. It was a weather system with no logic, she had decided, no pattern, no progression, no form.
The situation becomes even more dire when the plane's black box is recovered, pinning responsibility for the crash on Jack. In an attempt to clear his name, Kathryn searches for any and all clues to the hours before the flight. Yet each discovery forces her to realize that she didn't know her husband of 16 years at all. Shreve's complex and highly convincing treatment of Kathryn's dilemma, coupled with intriguing minor characters and an expertly paced plot, makes The Pilot's Wife really take off. [via] 
Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Man And Dublinersby James JoyceISBN 159308031X (1-59308-031-X)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Presa / Preyby Michael CrichtonISBN 9875660280 (987-566-028-0)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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The Prince and the Pauperby Mark Twain, Karen DavidsonISBN 1416523685 (1-4165-2368-5)
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The Prince and the Pauperby Samuel L. ClemensISBN 1561563110 (1-56156-311-0)
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The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for Young People of All Agesby Mark TwainISBN 159818444X (1-59818-444-X)
Hardcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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"Twain was . . . enough of a genius to build his morality into his books, with humor and wit and -- in the case of The Prince and the Pauper -- wonderful plotting."
-- E.L. Doctorow [via]
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The Screwtape Lettersby C. S. LewisISBN 1557481423 (1-55748-142-3)
Softcover, Spring Arbor Distributors
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Screwtape Letters'Book summary:This adaptation of C.S. Lewis's biting satire received a 1999 Grammy nomination for best spoken-word performance, and it's easy to see why--the story fits the format perfectly. It's relatively brief (the unabridged reading takes a mere four hours), and contains only one character--the demon Screwtape, who writes letters to his novice nephew Wormwood, instructing him on how to best tempt his "patient" (a wayward soul on earth) into the bosom of "our Lord below."
Obviously, the book wasn't written with former Monty Python John Cleese in mind, but it's hard to imagine a better Screwtape. Cleese's voice provides the perfect vehicle for Lewis's dry, razor-edged wit. His uncanny comic timing and ability to milk each phrase for maximum effect betray an infectious enthusiasm for the story. It's clear that he's having a great time reading, and it's impossible not to laugh along with him. This inspired pairing of two of the 20th century's greatest wits makes for a meditation on the dark side of spiritual guidance that's as relevant and funny today as it was in Lewis's war-torn England. (Running time: 4 hours, 3 cassettes) --Andrew Neiland [via]
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Solaris: Romanby Stanisaw LemISBN 2070422399 (2-07-042239-9)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Solaris: Roman'Book summary:Solaris, planète longtemps oubliée par les explorations humaines, tourne autour de deux soleils, et ne semble pas abriter de vie. Un jour pourtant, un groupe de scientifiques y découvre une étonnante entité sous la forme d'un vaste océan protoplasmique. Mais après de nombreuses études, elle est déclarée non pensante et sans intérêt, l'ensemble des stimuli humains n'ayant jamais engendré de réponse.
Jusqu'au jour où le docteur Kelvin débarque sur la planète et rencontre la femme qu'il avait aimée et qui s'était depuis suicidée. Étonnement, effroi puis incompréhension vont alors se succéder et pousser Kelvin à chercher d'où vient ce si réaliste et désirable mirage.
D'origine polonaise, Lem est l'un des auteurs des pays de l'Est les plus connus. Souvent pamphlétaire, mais toujours optimiste et humoristique, il nous livre une très belle fable sur la communication et les incompréhensions qu'elle engendre, avec cette rencontre d'une forme extraterrestre et d'un être humain, et leur impossibilité naturelle à se comprendre. --Laurent Schneitter [via]
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South of the Border, West of the Sunby Haruki MurakamiISBN 1860465943 (1-86046-594-3)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'South of the Border, West of the Sun'Book summary:In South of the Border, West of the Sun, the arc of an average man's life from childhood to middle age, with its attendant rhythms of success and disappointment, becomes the kind of exquisite literary conundrum that is Haruki Murakami's trademark. The plot is simple: Hajime meets and falls in love with a girl in elementary school, but he loses touch with her when his family moves to another town. He drifts through high school, college, and his 20s, before marrying and settling into a career as a successful bar owner. Then his childhood sweetheart returns, weighed down with secrets:
When I went back into the bar, a glass and ashtray remained where she had been. A couple of lightly crushed cigarette butts were lined up in the ashtray, a faint trace of lipstick on each. I sat down and closed my eyes. Echoes of music faded away, leaving me alone. In that gentle darkness, the rain continued to fall without a sound.
Murakami eschews the fantastic elements that appear in many of his other novels and stories, and readers hoping for a glimpse of the Sheep Man will be disappointed. Yet South of the Border, West of the Sun is as rich and mysterious as anything he has written. It is above all a complex, moving, and honest meditation on the nature of love, distilled into a work with the crystal clarity of a short story. A Nat "King" Cole song, a figure on a crowded street, a face pressed against a car window, a handful of ashes drifting down a river to the sea are woven together into a story that refuses to arrive at a simple conclusion. The classic love triangle may seem like a hackneyed theme for a writer as talented as Murakami, but in his quietly dazzling way, he bends us to his own unique geometry. --Simon Leake [via]More editions of South of the Border, West of the Sun:
Thousand Acresby Jane SmileyISBN 1560543612 (1-56054-361-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Trilogyby Samuel BeckettISBN 1857152360 (1-85715-236-0)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library Ltd
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Al Sur De La Frontera, Al Oeste Del Sol / South of the Border, West of the Sunby Haruki Murakami, Lourdes PortaISBN 8483102501 (84-8310-250-1)
Softcover, Tusquets Editor
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Las aventuras de Augie March/ The Adventures of Augie Marchby Saul BellowISBN 8437612292 (84-376-1229-2)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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Cenizas de Angela /Angela's Ashesby Frank McCourtISBN 9700513572 (970-05-1357-2)
Softcover, Grijalbo Mondadori
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El Club Dumasby Arturo Pérez-ReverteISBN 8495501007 (84-95501-00-7)
Hardcover, Suma de Letras, S.L.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Club Dumas'Book summary:Lucas Corso is a bibliophilic mercenary in the middle to two searches. He needs to prove if a manuscript of The Three Musketeers is genuine. He must also find the solution to the enigma of a diabolic book, burned with the printer in 1667, and of which only two other copies are known. The mystery leads him from the Holy Office to books condemned by the Vatican; from dusty old bookstores to the most select libraries owned by important international collectors.
Description in Spanish: Descifrar el misterio de un libro que invoca al demonio, del que sólo quedan tres ejemplares en el mundo, se convirtió para Lucas Corso, comprador de libros antiguos por encargo, en peligrosa aventura. Pero por si esto fuera poco, un capítulo manuscrito de los tres mosqueteros de Alejandro Dumas entra en escena y se entremezclan historias para dar origen a un apasionante thriller al mejor estilo de Arturo Pérez-Reverte. "El club Dumas" (1993), una de las novelas más emblemáticas del autor, constituye un modelo ejemplar de utilización de los más genuinos ingredientes de la novela de intriga, de investigación criminal, ambientación histórica y ficción culturalista, además de ser un homenaje al maestro del folletín decimonónico, Alejandro Dumas. Esta novela ha sido llevada a la gran pantalla por Roman Polanski con el título "La novena puerta". [via]
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El Club Dumas/the Club Dumas: O Lasombra De Richelieuby Arturo Perez-ReverteISBN 8466318313 (84-663-1831-3)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Club Dumas/the Club Dumas: O Lasombra De Richelieu'Book summary:Lucas Corso is a bibliophile mercenary in the middle of two searches. He needs to prove if a manuscript of The Three Musketeers is genuine. He must also find the solution to the enigma of a diabolic book, burned at the printers in 1667 by the Holy office and condemned by the Vatican; only two other copies are known. The stories intermingle and result in a page-turning thriller distinctive of Perez Reverte s writing. The book was taken to the big screen in a movie titled The Ninth Gate by renowned director Roman Polanski.
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Descifrar el misterio de un libro que invoca al demonio, del que solo quedan tres ejemplares en el mundo, se convirtio para Lucas Corso, comprador de libros antiguos por encargo, en peligrosa aventura. Pero por si esto fuera poco, un capitulo manuscrito de los tres mosqueteros de Alejandro Dumas entra en escena y se entremezclan historias para dar origen a un apasionante thriller al mejor estilo de Arturo Perez-Reverte. [via]
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El Fin De LA Infancia/Childhood's Endby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 9684460422 (968-446-042-2)
Softcover, Minotauro Mexico
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Hambreby Knut HamsunISBN 9977303959 (9977-30-395-9)
Softcover, Educa Books
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Hija de la fortuna / Daughter of Fortuneby Not AvailableISBN 8497592530 (84-9759-253-0)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hija de la fortuna / Daughter of Fortune'Book summary:Eliza Sommers es una joven chilena que vive en Valparaíso en 1849, el año en que se descubre oro en California. Su amante, Joaquín Andieta, parte hacia el norte decidido a encontrar fortuna, y ella decide seguirlo. El viaje infernal, escondida en la cala de un velero, y la búsqueda de su amante en una tierra de hombres solos y prostitutas atraídos por la fiebre del oro, transforman a la joven inocente en una mujer fuera de lo común. Eliza recibe ayuda y afecto de Tao Chi'en, un médico chino, quien la conducirá de la mano en un itinerario memorable por los misterios y contradicciónes de la condición humana. hija de la fortuna es un retrato palpitante de una época marcada por la violencia y la codicia en la cual los protagonistas rescatan el amor, la amistad, la compasión y el valor.
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Memorias De Adrianoby Marguerite YourcenarISBN 8435003620 (84-350-0362-0)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns Inc
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El Otono Del Patriarca/the Autumn of the Patriarchby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 9681317076 (968-13-1707-6)
Softcover, Editorial Diana S.A. De C.V.
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La Voz de los Muertosby Orson Scott Card, Rafael Marin TrecheraISBN 8466618082 (84-666-1808-2)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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Les Cinq Livresby Francois Rabelais, Gerard Defaux, Jean Ceard, Michel SimoninISBN 2253132233 (2-253-13223-3)
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Fille Du Destinby Isabel Allende, Claude de FrayssinetISBN 2253152455 (2-253-15245-5)
Softcover, Hachette
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fille Du Destin'Book summary:445pages. poche. Broché. [via]
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Quand Nous Etions Orphelinsby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 2264033746 (2-264-03374-6)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quand Nous Etions Orphelins'Book summary:383pages. 17x10,8x2,4cm. Poche. Christopher Banks, Anglais né à Shanghai à l'aube du XXe siècle, est devenu orphelin à 9 ans, à la suite de la disparition énigmatique de ses parents. Envoyé en Grande-Bretagne pour y poursuivre ses études, il devient un détective célèbre, résolvant les affaires les plus difficiles, avant de décider finalement de revenir sur les lieux de son enfance pour s'attaquer à l'énigme qui n'a cessé de le hanter : pourquoi ses parents ont-ils été enlevés ? Cet événement lourd de conséquences serait-il lié au trafic d'opium ? Mais est-il possible de cerner la vérité à partir de souvenirs évanescents, qui plus est dans une ville quotidiennement défigurée par les ravages de la guerre sino-japonaise ? Et peut-on faire confiance à un homme certes rigoureux, mais forcément impliqué émotionnellement dans son enquête ? Le lecteur est alors amené à endosser lui aussi l'habit de détective, en quête des bribes de vérité que livre la conscience labyrinthique du personnage. L'auteur virtuose des Vestiges du Jour explore ainsi à nouveau le territoire du dédale de la mémoire. Avec originalité et subtilité, perspicacité et finesse d'humour, il nous livre un roman remarquable, riche en émotions et en rebondissements. Le lecteur se laisse emporter avec plaisir par le souffle de cette ?uvre à l'atmosphère désenchantée, et qui invite à profiter des plaisirs minuscules de la vie. Un très bon cru, à consommer sans modération. -Nathalie Gouiffès [via]
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Das Buch Ruthby Klaas HuizingISBN 381350168X (3-8135-0168-X)
Hardcover, Knaus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Das Buch Ruth'Book summary:Willkommen im Reich der postmodernen Narrativität ( Narri! Narro!). Nun gut, Scherz beiseite, wer Ishiguro kennt, wird, auch wenn es sich wie hier um eine Kriminalgeschichte handelt, ohnehin keinen Schlaf raubenden Reißer erwarten. Kunst darf (muss?) schließlich auch ein wenig anstrengen.
Was uns erwartet: Christopher Banks, der Protagonist des Romans, ist, nach erfolgreichem Universitätsbesuch, zum berühmtesten Londoner Detektiv der 30er Jahre geworden. Er ist ein Philosoph, ein Metaphysiker des Detektivischen. Doch was treibt ihn ins Investigative? Wir erfahren es mittels ausführlicher Rückblenden. Banks verbringt Kindheit und Jugend in Shanghai und muss erleben, dass eines Tages seine Eltern verschwunden sind. Er ist besessen davon, das Geheimnis dieses Verschwindens zu ergründen. Nach und nach wird jedoch deutlich, dass diese scheinbar präzisen Erinnerungen in den zahllosen Rückblenden nicht so sehr der Aufhellung der Vergangenheit, als der Konstruktion eines Idealbildes seiner Kindheit dienen. Wir hören, dezent, dezent, die postmoderne Nachtigall trapsen: Nicht die Geschichte als solche ist besonders wichtig, sondern die Beschreibung des postmodernen Ego im Prozess seiner Selbstfindung, seines Bemühens, Ordnung ins allgegenwärtige Chaos zu bringen.
In gewissem Sinne steht dieser Roman in einer Tradition des Kafkaesken ( nicht Kafkas!!): der Beschreibung des Unwirklichen und Unlogischen im vorgeblich Sinnhaften.
Lesbar und wider Erwarten unterhaltsam wird dieses Buch durch Ishiguros parodistisches Talent, auch wenn die manchmal unambitionierte bis fantasielose Übersetzung dem hohen literarischen Rang dieses Autors nicht immer gerecht wird. Trost und Versprechen zum Schluss: Das Mysterium des elterlichen Verschwindens wird tatsächlich enträtselt. --Dietrich Clausen [via]
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Solarisby Lem StanislawISBN 3423101776 (3-423-10177-6)
Softcover, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co KG
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Quando Eravamo Orfaniby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 8806162349 (88-06-16234-9)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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