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| Caryl Phillips - Crossing the River |
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In a vastly ambitious and intensely moving novel, the author of Cambridge creates a many-tongued chorus of the African diaspora in the complex and riveting story of a desperate father who sells his three children into slavery.
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$11.00 - $11.00
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| Rachel Seiffert - The Dark Room |
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Rachel Seiffert’s absorbing, internationally acclaimed debut explores the modern German psyche through the experiences of three ordinary people.<br><br>At the onset of World War II, a young photographer’s assistant is kept out of the war due to a physical disability, and instead spends h ...
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$12.00 - $12.00
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| Kazuo Ishiguro - An Artist of the Floating World |
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Masuji Ono was once a painter of the Ukiyo, the traditional pleasure-seeking "floating world" of geishas, cherry blossoms, and teahouses. But he also worked as an enthusiastic propagandist, creating posters in support of the imperialist Japanese government during World War II--a war in which his wif ...
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$11.00 - $27.00
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| J.G. Farrell - The Siege of Krishnapur |
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Winner of the Booker prize in 1974, JG Farrell's dark social satire THE SIEGE OF KRISHNAPUR recounts a besieged British garrison in a remote region of India during the "Sepoy uprising" of 1857. Trapped in their gilded prison, cut off from food, water, and supplies, the Victorian English begin to los ...
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$11.00 - $11.00
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