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  • Living Parallel

    This novel about conflicts of conscience explores an unusual love triangle of a man, a woman, and the Czech countryside. Finally winning the heart of an artist named Olga, a woman he first fell in love with 20 years earlier, Mikuláš must now make a decision between her and his homeland.Mikuláš is an architect who has spent his career designing prefab high-rise apartment blocks in Prague, when his ... Leer más

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    2008 Orion Book AwardThe New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' ... Leer más

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  • The Department of Missing Persons

    A Novel

    Traducido por Grace McQuillan ...
    A startling debut novel about the burden of Holocaust memory and the implacable zest for life.Thirty-six years after her mother was liberated from Bergen-Belsen, the unnamed narrator lives a comfortable life in Paris. Her mother sees ghosts at every turn, longing to find the family that disappeared behind the miasma of the Holocaust, but she cannot reconcile her mother’s trauma to the cheery ... Leer más

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  • Speak, Memory

    An Autobiography Revisited

    Series series Vintage International
    From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. • "Scintillating … One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that has vanished forever." —The New York TimesSpeak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. Nabokov's memoir is a moving account of ... Leer más

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  • Too Loud a Solitude

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    A fable about the power of books and knowledge, "finely balanced between pathos and comedy," from one of Czechoslovakia's most popular authors ( Los Angeles Times).A New York Times Notable BookHaňtá has been compacting trash for thirty-five years. Every evening, he rescues books from the jaws of his hydraulic press, carries them home, and fills his house with them. Haňtá may be an idiot, as his ... Leer más

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  • Visitation

    Traducido por Susan Bernofsky ...
    A bestseller in Germany, Visitation has established Jenny Erpenbeck as one of Europe’s most significant contemporary authors.A forested property on a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin lies at the heart of this darkly sensual, elegiac novel. Encompassing over one hundred years of German history, from the nineteenth century to the Weimar Republic, from World War II to the Socialist German Democratic ... Leer más

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  • Parallel Stories

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    de Péter Nádas ...
    A New York Times Notable Book for 2011In 1989, the year the Wall came down, a university student in Berlin on his morning run finds a corpse on a park bench and alerts the authorities. This scene opens a novel of extraordinary scope and depth, a masterwork that traces the fate of myriad Europeans—Hungarians, Jews, Germans, Gypsies—across the treacherous years of the mid-twentieth century.Three ... Leer más

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  • A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

    de Peter Handke ...
    Traducido por Ralph Manheim ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
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  • The Life of an Unknown Man

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  • Autobiography of a Corpse

    Traducido por Joanne Turnbull ...
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  • The Art of the Wasted Day

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