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As the might of the Imperial Japanese Army is crumbling, so too are the tenuous ties with human society held by a sensitive soldier of World War II.

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Where the Air Is Clear, Carlos Fuentes's first novel, is an unsparing portrayal of Mexico City's upper class. Departing from a traditional linear ... More

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Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) has been hailed by Gabriel Josipovici as 'Austria's finest postwar writer' and by George Steiner as 'one of the masters ... More

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Count d'Orgel is handsome, charming, and carefree, a model of cool aristocratic aplomb. His wife, the Countess, is beautiful and pure and loves her ... More

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Thomas Bernhard, one of the most distinct, celebrated, and perverse of 20th century writers, took his own life in 1989. Perhaps the greatest Austrian ... More

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When a Christian boy disappears in a fictional Eastern European town in the 1920s, the local Jews are quickly accused of ritual murder. There is ... More

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This diary of a mid-Heian noblewoman, chronicling her confinement in the lonely grandeur of court life, is one of the earliest attempt in Japanese ... More

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Saint-Exupery turns this account of a routine mail flight from France to North Africa into an epic rendering of the pioneer days of commercial ... More

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In writing this novel, one of the major works of German fiction to appear since the Second World War, Siegfried Lenz has written, 'I was trying to ... More

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In these memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short ... More

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Early one morning a doctor sets out with his son on his daily rounds through the forbidding mountainous countryside. Their visits, a succession of ... More

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Volume One of "The Master of Hestviken."

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"I have read and admired all of Morris's books, and there is no doubt in my mind that he is one of the most truly original of contemporary writers. ... More

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When his dentist places him in front of a television to distract him, Eberhard Starusch projects onto the screen his present, resulting in a ... More

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The Virgin Tramp--she was a lurid front-page homicide, a girl who had the goods on the pimps, promoters, hookers and hoods. Maybe she even knew ... More

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Two novellas showing the atmosphere of hatred in which Jews must live, die, and struggle for rationality both historically and in the present. ... More

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