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Aira, Cesar
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Ghosts
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AUD$18.70;
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Ghosts is about a construction worker's family squatting on a building site. They all see large and handsome ghosts around their quarters, but the teenage daughter is the most curious. Her questions...
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Bolano, Roberto
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Last Evenings on Earth (Reprint)
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AUD$19.86;
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Fourteen dark tales about the tragic qualities of exile feature protagonists who are struggling with marginal lives and private, often ill-fated, quests, in a collection set in the Chilean exile...
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Bolano, Roberto
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The Romantic Dogs (Reprint)
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AUD$22.17;
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This bilingual collection of 44 poems offers American readers their first chance to encounter Bolano as a poet--how the literary phenomenon really saw himself.
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Bolano, Roberto / Andrews, Chris
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Distant Star
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AUD$21.01;
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The star in this hair-raising novel is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an Air Force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup in Chile to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise that...
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Borges, Jorge Luis
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Labyrinths (Reprint)
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AUD$21.01;
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Readers are invited to take a new look at "Labyrinths," the classic by Latin America's finest writer of the 20th century--a true literary sensation--with a new introduction by cyber-author William...
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Borges, Jorge Luis
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Seven Nights (2 Tra)
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The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges' erudition on the following topics: Dante's "The Divine Comedy," Buddhism, poetry, the...
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Burt, Nathaniel
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The Perennial Philadelphians
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AUD$83.15;
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The Perennial Philadelphians tells the story of the city's inherited aristocracy--of Wanamakers and Drexels, of Biddles and Cadwaladers. Drawing on history, genealogy, politics, economics, the fine...
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Cardenal, Ernesto
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Pluriverse
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AUD$24.46;
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The most comprehensive selection of poems in English by Latin America's legendary poet-activist, Ernesto Cardenal. "Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems" charts the life-work of the celebrated poet...
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Endo, Shusaku
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The Sea and Poison
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Young interns Suguro, compelled by circumstance, Toda, a cynic, and Nurse Ueda, numbed by tragedy, take part in experiments the Japanese doctors are performing on their American prisoners
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Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
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Americus
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AUD$21.01;
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti lights out for the territories with Book I of his own born-in-the-U.S.A. epic, "Americus," Describing "Americus" as "part documentary, part public pillow-talk, part personal...
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Gander, Forrest
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As a Friend
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"Heroism is a secondary virtue," Albert Camus noted, "but friendship is primary." In his gem-like first novel, Forrest Gander writes of friendship, envy, and eros as a harmonic of charged overtones....
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Gander, Forrest
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Eye Against Eye
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"Among the most gifted and accomplished poets of his generation" (Mark Rudman). The three long poems in "Eye Against Eye" convey the wrought particulars of intimate human relations, perceptions of...
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Gardner, John
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October Light (Reprint)
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Living in her older brother's Vermont farmhouse, penniless widow Sally Abbot finds their clashing values escalating to the point that her brother banishes her to her room with a mainstream novel she...
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Hawkes, John
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Second Skin
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AUD$21.01;
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Skipper, an ex-World War II naval Lieutenant and the narrator of "Second Skin," interweaves past and present--what he refers to as his "naked history"--in a series of episodes that tell the story of...
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Hesse, Hermann / Buddha
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Siddhartha / The Dhammapada
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AUD$17.56;
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Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, Siddhartha is the story of a soul's long quest for the answer to the enigma of man's role on earth. As a youth, the young Indian...
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