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Octavio Paz;Helen Lane
ISBN:9781559701365
A key figure in the Latin American literary renaissance, Octavio Paz A key figure in the Latin American literary renaisance, Octaio Paz focuses here on literature and art...more details Format:Paperback Pages:226
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Michael Guinzburg
ISBN:9781559702089
Scotty" (crack) has had its way with Ed, but he finds his way back through the message of Hard Drugs Anonymous, taking their Twelve Steps to the streets of the East Village and dealing salvation in lethal doses. Like Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:243
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Michael Griffith
ISBN:9781559706766
If Spikes was a breathless ride, Bibliophilia is a veritable roller coaster, starting with the almost novel-length title pice whose unlikely protagonist is a postmenopausal university librarian pressed into reluctant duty as a sex cop...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:223
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Octavio Paz
ISBN:9781559701372
One of the great mind of the 20th century explores the duality of human nature in all its variations in cultures around the world....more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
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Barry Yourgrau
ISBN:9781559704823
Think Bruce Chatwin meets Monty Python. Meets Paul Bowles meets Fellini meets Scheherazade meets the Twilight Zone. Haunted Traveller is a travel memoir as could only be conjured by Barry Yourgrau...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:208
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Octavio Paz
ISBN:9781559701389
With the insight and lucidity that characterize everything he writes, Paz assesses the thought and work of one of the most famous painters of the twentieth century....more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Octavio Paz
ISBN:9781559701396
The philosopher-man of letters brilliantly reflects on some 16 fellow poets and writers, including Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and William Carols Williams....more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Shashi Tharoor
ISBN:9781559702270
Ashok Banjara is one of India's mega-movie stars, a man of great ambition and dubious morals. With irrepressible charm and a genius for satire...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
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Ismail Kadare
ISBN:9781559709095
This sweeping epic of post-war Albania was Kadare's first novel. Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is dispatched to Albania to recover his country's dead. Once there he meets a German general who is engaged upon an identical mission and their conversations bring out into the open the extent of their horror and guilt...more details Format:Paperback Pages:272
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Shashi Tharoor
ISBN:9781559701945
In this award-winning, internationally acclaimed novel, Tharoor has masterfully recast the 2,000 year-old epic, The Mahabharata, with fictional but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics. Chronicling the Indian struggle for freedom and independence from Great Britain...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:423
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Martin Jones
ISBN:9781559706117
A revolution is underway in archaeology. Working at the cutting edge of genetic and molecular technologies, researchers have been probing the building blocks of ancient life -- DNA...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:279
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Natalia Ginzburg
ISBN:9781559704670
The Things We Used to Say (published in an earlier translation as Family Sayings) asks to be read as fiction, though the author admits that it is highly autobiographical. The book spans the period from the rise of fascism in Italy through World War II and its immediate aftermath. The subject of this book is the inconsequential...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:224
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Steven Poole
ISBN:9781559705394
The Edge calls "Trigger Happy" a "seminal piece of work". For the first time ever, an aficionado with a knowledge of art, culture, and a real love of gaming takes a critical look at the future of our videogames...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:256
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Abdelkader Benali
ISBN:9781559705301
Lamarat Minar would have been a champion Parcheesi player if he had stayed in North Africa. But he has returned home from Europe to attend his sister's wedding to their uncle Mosa...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:208
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Lisa Lang
ISBN:9780980436709
'The reign of knowledge and humanity is coming.' (E.W. Cole, 1832-1918)
Pass beneath the painted rainbow and enter a world where a million books are held...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
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Jenny Lee
ISBN:9780980436716
"You can read the past in this city, if you know where to look."
An accessible and entertaining palm-sized mini-history with 50-plus black & white images...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176