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“pierre clitandre”

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  • Cathedral of the August Heat

    by Pierre Clitandre ...
    Translated by Bridget Jones ...
    Cathedral of the August Heat, Pierre Clitandre’s first novel in English and the first novel from Haitian French translated for a new generation, is a modern classic reflecting the kaleidoscope of Haitian life and the struggle of the very poorest people of the Americas that still goes on today.The vibrant action of the novel leads towards the August Feast of the Assumption of our Lady, a date of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Whale

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    by Cheon Myeong-Kwan ...
    Translated by Chi-Young Kim ...
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  • Cape of Storms

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  • The Tomorrow-Tamer

    by Margaret Laurence, Guy Vanderhaeghe ...
    The ten stories gathered together in The Tomorrow-Tamer are Margaret Laurence’s first published fiction. Set in raucous and often terrifying Ghana, where shiny Jaguars and modern jazz jostle for eminence against fetish figures, tribal rites, and the unchanging beat of jungle drums, the stories tell of individuals, European and African, trying to come to terms with the frightening world brought ... Read more

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  • As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

    A Memoir

    by Laurie Lee ...
    Series Book 2 - The Autobiographical Trilogy
    The author of Cider with Rosie continues his bestselling autobiographical trilogy with "a wondrous adventure" through Spain on the eve of its civil war ( Library Journal).On a bright Sunday morning in June 1934, Laurie Lee left the village home so lovingly portrayed in his bestselling memoir, Cider with Rosie. His plan was to walk the hundred miles from Slad to London, with a detour of an extra ... Read more

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  • A Dove of the East

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    by Mark Helprin ...
    This "dazzling collection" of short stories by the World Fantasy Award-winning author of Winter's Talecontemplates the human experience across the globe ( The San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner).In these twenty stories, Mark Helprin offers a series of meditations on some of humanity's most enduring and universal questions. At the hour of his death, an American priest in Rome must choose between ... Read more

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  • A Moment of War

    A Memoir

    by Laurie Lee ...
    Series Book 3 - The Autobiographical Trilogy
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  • Windward Heights

    by Maryse Conde ...
    Translated by Richard Philcox ...
    Winner of the 2018 New Academy Prize in LiteraturePrizewinning writer Maryse Condé reimagines Emily Brontë’s passionate novel as a tale of obsessive love between the "African" Razyé and Cathy, the half-Creole daughter of the man who takes Razyé in and raises him, but whose treatment goads him into rebellious flight. Retaining the emotional power of the original, Condé shows Caribbean society in ... Read more

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    A Fantastical Tale

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    by Maryse Condé ...
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  • Last Stories and Other Stories

    by William T. Vollmann ...
    Supernaturally tinged stories from William T. Vollmann, author of the National Book Award winner Europe CentralIn this magnificent new work of fiction, his first in nine years, celebrated author William T. Vollmann offers a collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death, and the erotic.A Bohemian farmer’s dead wife returns to him, and their love endures, but at a gruesome price. A ... Read more

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    A "challenging and rewarding novel"* from Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke.The time is an unspecified modernity, the place possibly Europe. Absence follows four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- as they journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city."In this smoothly written fable, Handke forcefully summons readers to the ... Read more

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