Cultural Region/Central Europe
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Repetition
$17.00 Add to cartSet in 1960, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke’s Repetition tells of Filib Kobal’s journey from his home in Carinthia to Slovenia on the trail of his missing brother, Gregor. He is armed only with two o
- Author: Handke, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 125076727X
- Language: English
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The Third Man
$17.00 Add to cartRollo Martins’ usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter. But when his old friend Harry Lime invites him to Vienna, he jumps at the chance. With exactly five … [more below]
- Author: Greene, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140286829
- Language: English
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Q
$21.99 Add to cartIn 1517, Martin Luther nails his ninety-five theses to the door of Wittenburg Cathedral, and a dance of death begins between a radical Anabaptist with many names and a loyal papal spy known mysterious… [more below]
- Author: Blissett, Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 750
- Publish Date: May 09 2005
- ISBN10: 0156031965
- Language: English
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Artemisia
$15.00 Read moreAn international best-seller, Alexandra Lapierre’s Artemisia sweeps us through the streets once frequented by Caravaggio, Velasquez, and Van Dyck and into the studios of artists who used their daggers… [more below]
- Author: Lapierre, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 21 2001
- ISBN10: 0802138578
- Language: English
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Stones from the River
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Floating in My Mother’s Palm and Children and Fire, a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times–“epic, daring, magnificent, the product of a defi
- Series: Oprah’s Book Club
- Author: Hegi, Ursula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 01, 1997
- ISBN10: 068484477X
- Language: English
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The Melancholy of Resistance
$27.95 Add to cartA powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai’s mag… [more below]
- Author: Krasznahorkai, László
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: January 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0811214508
- Language: English
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The Swan Book
$18.99 Add to cartA hypnotic and “astonishingly inventive” (O, The Oprah Magazine) novel about an Aboriginal girl living in a future world turned upside down–where ancient myths exist side-by-side with present-day rea… [more below]
- Author: Wright, Alexis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 16 2018
- ISBN10: 150112479X
- Language: English
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Life Is Elsewhere
$17.99 Add to cart“I will say no more about this lacerating book except to urge it upon all who care about literature in our difficult era.” — Boston Globe
“A sly and merciless lampoon of revolutionary romanticism. . .
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 25 2000
- ISBN10: 0060997028
- Language: English
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
$32.00 Add to cartErnest Hemingway’s masterpiece on war, love, loyalty, and honor tells the story of Robert Jordan, an antifascist American fighting in the Spanish Civil War.
In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain- Series: Scribner Classics
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 10 1996
- ISBN10: 0684830485
- Language: English
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The Sun Also Rises: The Authorized Edition
$28.99 Add to cartA Scribner Classics Edition
“The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost.” — The Wall Street- Series: Scribner Classics
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 10 1996
- ISBN10: 0684830515
- Language: English
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London Refrain
$15.99 Add to cartThis description covers #7 London Refrain, #8 Paris Encore, and #9 Dunkirk Crescendo.
These three additions to the Zion Covenant series are “director’s cuts.” They include portions of the Thoene cla… [more below]
- Series: Zion Covenant #7
- Author: Thoene, Bodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1414303580
- Language: English
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Dunkirk Crescendo
$15.99 Read moreThis description covers #7 London Refrain, #8 Paris Encore, and #9 Dunkirk Crescendo.
These three additions to the Zion Covenant series are “director’s cuts.” They include portions of the Thoene cla… [more below]
- Series: Zion Covenant #9
- Author: Thoene, Bodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1414305451
- Language: English
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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
$16.99 Add to cart- Series: Harvest in Translation
- Author: Saramago, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0156996936
- Language: English
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Adolphe
$5.99 Add to cartAdolphe is just past the his coming-of-age, but has a much more room to grow. As the son of a government official, Adolphe has a privilege of comfortable wealth and access to a good education, however
- Series: Mint Editions (Literary Fiction)
- Author: Constant, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1513269437
- Language: English
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The Metamorphosis
$5.99 Add to cart“Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.”-W.H. Auden
“The common experience of Kafka’s readers is one of general and vague fascination, even in stories they f
- Series: Mint Editions (Philosophical and Theological Work)
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1513263528
- Language: English
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Opium and Other Stories
$17.00 Add to cartA rediscovered classic of Hungarian literature, this spellbinding collection vividly depicts the darkest impulses of the human psyche against the backdrop of Europe’s moral and social decline on the e
- Author: Csath, Geza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1609458133
- Language: English
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Farewell Waltz
$17.99 Add to cart“After Farewell Waltz there cannot be any doubt. Kundera is a master of contemporary literature. This novel is both an an example of virtuosity and a descent into the human soul.” —L’Unite
Set in an o
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 21 1998
- ISBN10: 0060997001
- Language: English
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As It Is in Heaven
$21.99 Add to cartIn the new novel by the author of “Four Letters of Love”, a “New York Times” Notable Book of the Year, Stephen Griffin is a shy young man who lives in the town of Ennis in County Clare, Ireland. He fi… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 06 2008
- ISBN10: 0446676012
- Language: English
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Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank That Runs the World
$21.99 Add to cartTower of Basel is the first investigative history of the world’s most secretive global financial institution. Based on extensive archival research in Switzerland, Britain, and the United States, and i… [more below]
- Author: LeBor, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393813
- Language: English
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The English Patient
$18.00 Add to cartBOOKER PRIZE WINNER – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – The bestselling author of Warlight traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. “A rare spellbind… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Ondaatje, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 30 1993
- ISBN10: 0679745203
- Language: English
