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  • Sisters

    de Brigitte Lozerec'h ...
    Traducido por Betsy Wing ...
    Series series French Literature
    Mathilde Lewly—a female painter at the dawn of the twentieth century—has achieved notoriety among the Parisian avant-garde. She and her husband, also a talented young artist, pursue their separate visions side by side in a Clichy atelier, galvanized by the artistic ferment that surrounds them. But the couple are threatened by the shadow of Mathilde's little sister, Eugénie: since the two girls' ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Shadow of Memory

    de Bernard Comment ...
    Traducido por Betsy Wing ...
    Series series Swiss Literature
    In this eerie, compelling, and playful novel, a young man tormented by his feeble memory meets an elderly man, Robert, endowed with the recall of an elephant. Soon, in exchange for becoming his live-in servant, Robert agrees to allow his young protégé to inherit his prodigious memory upon his death. While this might seem a fair if absurd exchange, Robert's demands become progressively more macabre ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • So Vast the Prison

    A Novel

    de Assia Djebar ...
    Traducido por Betsy Wing ...
    So Vast the Prison is the double-threaded story of a modern, educated Algerian woman existing in a man's society, and, not surprisingly, living a life of contradictions. Djebar, too, tackles cross-cultural issues just by writing in French of an Arab society (the actual act of writing contrasting with the strong oral traditions of the indigenous culture), as a woman who has seen revolution in a now ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Outwitting the Gestapo

    de Lucie Aubrac, Konrad Bieber, Betsy Wing ...
    Lucie Aubrac (1912-2007), born Bernard into a Catholic family of winegrowers, was teaching history in a Lyon high school and newly married to Raymond Samuel, a Jewish engineer, when World War II broke out and divided France. The couple, living in the Vichy zone, soon joined the Resistance movement in opposition to the Nazis and their collaborators. Outwitting the Gestapo is Lucie’s harrowing ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Mahagony

    A Novel

    de Édouard Glissant ...
    Traducido por Betsy Wing ...
    A New York Times New and Noteworthy BookÉdouard Glissant’s novels, closely tied to the theories he developed in Poétique de la Relatio**n (Poetics of relation), are rich explorations of a deported and colonized people’s loss of their own history and the ever-evolving social and political effects this sense of groundlessness has caused in Martinique. In Mahagony Glissant identifies both the malaise ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • Benito Cereno

    de Herman Melville ...
    Series series The Art of the Novella
    "What has cast such a shadow upon you?""The Negro."With its intense mix of mystery, adventure, and a surprise ending, Benito Cereno at first seems merely a provocative example from the genre Herman Melville created with his early best-selling novels of the sea. However, most Melville scholars consider it his most sophisticated work, and many, such as novelist Ralph Ellison, have hailed it as the ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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  • Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer

    de Joseph Conrad ...
    Heart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth - ... Leer más

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  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    de Mohsin Hamid ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEOVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEThe elegant and compelling literary fiction novel about a Pakistani man’s abandonment of his high-flying life in New York—an extraordinary post-9/11 portrait of a divided and yet ultimately indivisible world.**At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American ... Leer más

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  • The People in the Trees

    A Novel

    de Hanya Yanagihara ...
    **A thrilling anthropological adventure story with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide—from the bestselling author of National Book Award–nominated modern classic, A Little Life“Provokes discussions about science, morality and our obsession with youth.” —Chicago Tribune**It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Sharaf

    de Raj Kumar ...
    Major-General Farhan Al-Balawi is a loyal soldier in the Saudi Arabian army who dotes on his beloved daughter, Maryam, his pride in her learning and independent spirit sharpened by the death of his elder son and his estrangement from the younger who has opted to pursue a hedonistic western lifestyle in the USA. Despite the love she shares with her family, her respect for her father, the pride she ... Leer más

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  • The Garden of Evening Mists

    de Tan Twan Eng ...
    This “elegant and haunting novel of war, art and memory" (The Independent) award-winning novel from the acclaimed author of The Gift of Rain follows the only Malaysian survivor of a Japanese wartime camp as she begins working for an exiled former gardener of the Emporer.Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

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  • Mornings in Jenin

    A Novel

    de Susan Abulhawa ...
    With more than a million copies sold worldwide, a modern classic of Palestinian literature from “a major writer of our time” (Alice Walker).“Timeless in its truth.”-Fattima Bhutto“Powerful and passionate.”-Michael Palin“A novel to savor.”-Maureen Corrigan“Relevant, powerful, emotional and vivid.”-Bidisha MamatMornings in Jenin is a heart-wrenching multi-generat... ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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