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A Nazi recounts his unsettling journey through WWII in this prize-winning novel: "a world-class masterpiece of astonishing brutality, originality, and force" (Michael Korda, The Daily Beast).A literary sensation when it was first published in France, Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones was awarded both the Gran Prix du roman de l'Academie and the Prix Goncourt. Second World War historian Antony ... Read more

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A Nazi recounts his unsettling journey through WWII in this prize-winning novel: "a world-class masterpiece of astonishing brutality, originality, and force" (Michael Korda, The Daily Beast).A literary sensation when it was first published in France, Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones was awarded both the Gran Prix du roman de l'Academie and the Prix Goncourt. Second World War historian Antony
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Syrian Notebooks

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A blistering firsthand account of the conflict in Homs by the internationally acclaimed author of The Kindly Ones“We fight for our religion, for our women, for our land, and lastly to save our skin. As for them, they’re only fighting to save their skin.”In 2012, Jonathan Littell traveled to the heart of the Syrian uprising, smuggled in by the Free Syrian Army to the historic city of Homs. For ... Read more

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A blistering firsthand account of the conflict in Homs by the internationally acclaimed author of The Kindly Ones“We fight for our religion, for our women, for our land, and lastly to save our skin. As for them, they’re only fighting to save their skin.”In 2012, Jonathan Littell traveled to the heart of the Syrian uprising, smuggled in by the Free Syrian Army to the historic city of Homs. For
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The Fata Morgana Books

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The Prix Goncourtwinning author of the scandalous The Kindly Ones returns with four new novellas that offer startlingly fresh depictions of age-old obsessions: sex and love, desiring and gazing, and the memories that take a lifetime to process. In The Fata Morgana Books, Littell crafts unique narrative voices by letting sensual feelings take the fore, whether the slippery promise of silk underwear ... Read more

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The Prix Goncourtwinning author of the scandalous The Kindly Ones returns with four new novellas that offer startlingly fresh depictions of age-old obsessions: sex and love, desiring and gazing, and the memories that take a lifetime to process. In The Fata Morgana Books, Littell crafts unique narrative voices by letting sensual feelings take the fore, whether the slippery promise of silk underwear
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The international-bestselling winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Academy Award–winning film directed by John Ford .Huw Morgan remembers the days when his home valley was prosperous, verdant, and beautiful—before the mines came to town. The youngest son of a respectable mining family in South Wales, he is now the only one left in the valley, and his reminiscences tell the story ... Read more

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The international-bestselling winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Academy Award–winning film directed by John Ford .Huw Morgan remembers the days when his home valley was prosperous, verdant, and beautiful—before the mines came to town. The youngest son of a respectable mining family in South Wales, he is now the only one left in the valley, and his reminiscences tell the story
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Winner of the National Book Award: In the shadow of the Holocaust, a young girl discovers the power of magicIn the schoolroom of a simple European village, Kicsi spends her days dreaming of the lands beyond the mountains: Paris and New York, Arabia and Shanghai. When the local rabbi curses Kicsi's school for teaching lessons in Hebrew, the holy tongue, the possibility of adventure seems further ... Read more

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Winner of the National Book Award: In the shadow of the Holocaust, a young girl discovers the power of magicIn the schoolroom of a simple European village, Kicsi spends her days dreaming of the lands beyond the mountains: Paris and New York, Arabia and Shanghai. When the local rabbi curses Kicsi's school for teaching lessons in Hebrew, the holy tongue, the possibility of adventure seems further
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A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok—a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American historyIn 1932, as her husband assumed the presidency, Eleanor Roosevelt entered the claustrophobic, duty-bound existence of the ... Read more

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A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok—a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American historyIn 1932, as her husband assumed the presidency, Eleanor Roosevelt entered the claustrophobic, duty-bound existence of the
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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
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Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes*,* combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett.In this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the trappings of a normal life to live in a large cardboard box he wears over his head. Wandering the streets ... Read more

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Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes*,* combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett.In this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the trappings of a normal life to live in a large cardboard box he wears over his head. Wandering the streets
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The Sleep of the Righteous

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Doppelgängers, a murderer’s guilt, pulp noir, fanatical police, and impossible romances-these are the pieces from which German master Wolfgang Hilbig builds a divided nation battling its demons. Delving deep into the psyches of both East and West Germany, The Sleep of the Righteous reveals a powerful, apocalyptic account of the century-defining nation’s trajectory from 1945 to 1989. From a youth ... Read more

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