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“iana boukova”

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  • Traveling in the Direction of the Shadow

    by Iana Boukova ...
    Translated by Ekaterina Petrova ...
    The fates of eight characters in the nineteenth-century Balkans intertwine in this metafictional book of strange quests and nested narratives for fans of Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges.A woman who reads the future in the faces of her lovers, a dice-player whose unfailing luck becomes a curse, a manuscript illuminator who leaves his monastery to become a most fearsome bandit. Set in the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Woman in the Dunes

    by Kobo Abe ...
    Series series Vintage International
    The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel.After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit. But when he attempts to leave the next morning, he quickly discovers that the locals have other plans. Held ... Read more

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  • The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

    by Angela Carter ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of cannibals, centaurs and acrobats, Desiderio must battle against unreality and the warping of time and ... Read more

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  • Tales of Nevèrÿon

    by Samuel R. Delany ...
    Series Book 1 - Return to Nevèrÿon
    Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Samuel R. Delany's epic fantasy—the first in a series—explores power, gender, and the nature of civilization.A boy of the bustling, colorful docks of port Kolhari, during a political coup, fifteen-year-old Gorgik, once his parents are killed, is taken a slave and transported to the government obsidian mines at the foot of the Faltha mountains. When, in the ... Read more

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  • The Blind Owl

    by Sadegh Hedayat ...
    Translated by D. P. Costello ...
    An opium addict spirals into madness after losing a mysterious lover in this "extraordinary work" of modern Persian literature ( The Times Literary Supplement, UK).Sadegh Hedayat was Iran's most renowned modern fiction writer, and his spine-tingling novel The Blind Owl is considered his seminal work. A classic of modern Iranian literature, this edition is presented to contemporary audiences with a ... Read more

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  • The Colossus

    and Other Poems

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    Series series Vintage International
    With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. • "[Her poems] have that exquisite, heart-breaking quality about them that has made Sylvia Plath our acknowledged Queen of Sorrows." --Joyce Carol Oates,The New York TimesIn such classics as "The Beekeeper's Daughter," "The Disquieting Muses," "I Want, I ... Read more

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  • Blind Owl

    by Sadeq Hedayat ...
    Translated by Sassan Tabatabai ...
    **A new English translation of one of the most important, controversial Iranian novels of the twentieth centuryWinner of the 2023 Lois Roth Persian Translation AwardA Penguin Classic**Written by one of the greatest Iranian writers of the twentieth century, Blind Owl tells a two-part story of an isolated narrator with a fragile relationship with time and reality. In first person, the narrator ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Repetition

    A Novel

    by Peter Handke ...
    Set 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 of Gregor's books: a copy book from agricultural school, and a Slovenian - German dictionary, in which Gregor has marked certain words. The resulting investigation of the laws of language and naming ... Read more

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  • The Tennis Court Oath

    A Book of Poems

    by John Ashbery ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Program
    John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets. In the construction of his intricate patterns, he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color- words painstakingly chosen as conveyors of precise meaning, not as representations of sound. These linked in unexpected juxtapositions, at first glance unrelated and even anarchic, in the end create by their ... Read more

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  • No Flame But Mine

    by Tanith Lee ...
    Series Book 3 - The Lionwolf Trilogy
    The Lionwolf scrolls conclude in this epic fantasy adventure set in a snowbound world where redemption and revenge collideThe powerful mage Thryfe gropes through the steel-white snows that have covered the huddles of ruins, abandoned villages, and casualties of the White Death. He is searching for the stunning witch Jemhara, but his magic mirror can only see her past, not her present, and the ... Read more

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  • The Blind Owl and Other Stories

    by Sadeq Hedayat ...
    Series series Calder Publications
    Following a disjointed, vision-like structure, The Blind Owl is the nightmarish exploration of the psyche of a madman. The narrator is an ailing, solitary misanthrope who suffers from hallucinations, and his dreamlike tale is layered, circular, driven by its own demented logic, and punctuated with macabre and surreal episodes such as the discovery of a mutilated corpse, and a bizarre competition ... Read more

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  • Eyes with Winged Thoughts

    Poems and Photographs

    by Gordon Parks ...
    In Eyes with Winged Thoughts, the forty-four photographs and fifty-eight poems, reflecting on his long and extraordinary life, offer a rare glimpse of his thoughts and feelings about everything from romantic love to the Iraq war and the passing of Pope John Paul II.He has done it all. Gordon Parks's life was an astonishing litany of firsts: in the 1940s he was the first African American ... Read more

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