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Timbuktu: a novel
By Paul Auster. 1999
Told from the dog's point of view, a story of boon companions: Mr. Bones, a devoted mutt, and Willy G.…
Christmas, a self-named, homeless, terminally ill writer. Willy's final wishes are to bequeath his literary endeavors to a former teacher and to find a new owner for Mr. Bones. Some strong language. BestsellerAfter the quake: stories
By Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin. 2002
Six short stories set after the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan, by the author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (DB…
46636). In "Honey Pie," a shy writer has a second chance to marry the woman he has loved since university. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2002The sputnik sweetheart: a novel
By Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel. 2001
A young Japanese schoolteacher's heart is captured by aspiring female writer Sumire. But Sumire is infatuated with Miu, her sophisticated…
businesswoman boss and travel companion. The teacher is bewildered when Miu unexpectedly summons him to a Greek island because Sumire has disappeared. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2001Watt
By Samuel Beckett. 1959
Challenging absurdist fiction by the Irish novelist and playwright who won the 1969 Nobel Prize for literature. In a succession…
of grim, comic, and surreal moments, Watt seeks meaning in the mundane while he waits for the employer, Mr. Knott, who never appears. 1945Her First Palestinian
By Saeed Teebi. 2022
Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.…
Saeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada. A doctor teaches his girlfriend about his country, only for her to fall into a consuming obsession with the Middle East conflict. A math professor risks his family’s destruction by slandering the king of a despotic, oil-rich country. A university student invents an imaginary girlfriend to fit in with his callous, womanizing roommates. A lawyer takes on the impossible mission of becoming a body smuggler. A lonely widower travels to Russia in search of a movie starlet he met in his youth in historical Jaffa. A refugee who escaped violent circumstances rebels against the kindness of his sponsor. These taut and compelling stories engage the immigrant experience and reflect the Palestinian diaspora with grace and insight."The diamond as big as the Ritz" and other stories (Thrift Edition Ser.)
By F. Scott Fitzgerald. 1998
Six short stories describe the manipulations of the wealthy in the post-World War I era. In the title story, the…
richest man in the world blows up his home and family rather than share his bounty. In The Ice Palace, a southern belle flees the north for the warmth of her homeplaceLeaving Small's Hotel
By Eric Kraft, Kraft Kraft. 1998
Peter Leroy and his wife Albertine's ownership of Small's Hotel is in jeopardy. Their latest scheme to save the inn…
involves nightly readings from Peter's memoirs for their guests. Soon the listeners begin finding ways they can fit into the plan. Some strong languageBouvard and Pécuchet (The Penguin classics)
By Gustave Flaubert. 1976
Flaubert's last novel, unfinished at his death in 1880. A chance encounter between two forty-seven-year-old clerks who feel the bond…
of soul mates leads to enduring friendship. They retire in the country but are disappointed in their various projects and experiments. Includes a fragment of a companion volume, The Dictionary of Received IdeasPortrait of a man unknown
By Nathalie Sarraute. 1990
Girl in landscape
By Jonathan Lethem. 1998
When a global disaster blights the Earth's environment, fourteen-year-old Pella Marsh and her family escape to another planet where her…
father, a failed politician, hopes to restart his career. Pella assimilates into the alien society and discovers a terrible threat that could doom the Earthling colony. Some strong language. 1998Doctor Faustus: the life of the German composer Adrian Leverkuhn as told by a friend (Vintage International)
By Thomas Mann, John E. Woods. 1999
Mann's modern reworking of the Faust legend occurs in the decades preceding World War II in Germany. Portrays the tragedy…
of a composer who loses his capacity for compassion in exchange for gaining musical inspiration. New translation by the award-winning John E. Woods. 1947Flappers and philosophers
By F. Scott Fitzgerald, F Scott Fitzgerald. 1996
Eight short stories about young people at the beginning of the twentieth century. In "The Cut-Glass Bowl," a woman receives…
an impressive wedding gift from a former beau. In "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," some words of advice on gaining self-confidence and attracting men have unexpected repercussionsA god strolling in the cool of the evening: a novel (Pegasus prize for literature)
By Mário De Carvalho, Mario De Carvalho, Gregory Rabassa. 1997
On the Iberian peninsula, at the edge of the Roman Empire, magistrate Lucius Valerius witnesses the social upheaval caused by…
the spread of Christianity. Raised on the principles of Marcus Aurelius, Lucius attempts to remain a just man during the tumult of the changing times. Pegasus Prize for LiteratureNovember 1916 (The Red Wheel Ser. #Vol. 2)
By Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H. T. Willetts. 1999
Using historical and fictional characters, this second volume of the Russian epic depicts the oppressive atmosphere pervading the country in…
the months before the revolution. Flashbacks illuminate key events between August 1914 and November 1916, depicting the rise of dissent and providing background information on the militant Kadets who spurred the unrestThe notebooks of Don Rigoberto
By Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman. 1998
Alfonso schemes to reunite his father, Don Rigoberto, and his stepmother, Lucrecia, despite the fact that he had orchestrated their…
earlier breakup. Throughout these machinations, all three indulge their erotic fantasies about each other. Don Rigoberto records his imaginary exploits in a revealing testimonial to the psychology of love and desire. Some descriptions of sexDom Casmurro: a novel
By Machado De Assis. 1997
A middle-aged Brazilian lawyer of difficult disposition reflects on his youth when he suspects the two people he cares for…
most--his wife and his best friend--of betraying him. First published in 1899First love, and other stories: Introduction by V. S. Pritchett (Everyman's Library Classics Series #Vol. 191)
By Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Ivan Turgenev, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Schapiro. 1994
These three stories by the nineteenth-century Russian author are somewhat autobiographical. In "First Love," written in 1860, a father and…
son fall in love with the same woman. Written in 1872, "Spring Torrents" portrays a middle-aged person looking back on the folly of youth. "A Fire at Sea," written in 1883, tells of Turgenev's personal experiencePortrays traditional Ibo society in nineteenth-century Nigeria and one of its great men, Okonkwo. Through rituals, the lives of the…
individual and the community are unified, giving them order and significance. But the time-honored system of beliefs and behavior falls apart with the arrival of missionaries and colonistsThe queen of spades: and other stories (Penguin classics)
By Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Alexander Pushkin, Rosemary Edmonds. 1962
Four stories by the nineteenth-century Russian writer. The Queen of Spades, written in 1833, tells of a young officer's obsession…
with winning at cards. His subterfuge, intended to learn an elderly countess's secret for success, has dire consequences for both of themKing, queen, knave
By Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov. 1989
Young Franz goes to work for his Uncle Dreyer, whose wife, Martha, finds Franz attractive. But a twist of fate…
spoils the lovers' dalliance and thwarts their plan to be rid of the unsuspecting husband. Originally published in Russian in 1928. Some descriptions of sex