The Bridge on the Drina (Phoenix Fiction Series)
 The Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable, ... [... more]
$15.00
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Jacques & His Master
Kundera's first (and only) play Milan Kundera always called himself a novelist. He makes a fine distinction between writers and novelists. He thinks that his poems and his play (this play) are a peripheral part of his work. However, this work is ... [... more]
$13.00
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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin ...
A remembrance of things past Imre Kertesz, a concentration camp survivor and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature often asks in his work: is there life after Auschwitz? Can one live with the ineffable guilt that accompanies survival against all odds? ... [... more]
$14.00
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R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (Penguin Classics)
R.U.R.—written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922—garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word robot. Mass-produced as efficient laborers to serve man, ŠCapek’s Robots are an android ... [... more]
$9.00
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Feast: Poems
To read Tomaz Salamun is to understand the delights of contemporary poetry. He is one of the major names in the international avant-garde. Irreverent, self-mythologizing, tragic, and visionary, he is a poet of immense range and cunning, able to encompass ... [... more]
$40.00
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Homo Zapiens
The collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a huge consumer market, but how do you sell things to a generation that grew up with just one type of cola? When Tatarsky, a frustrated poet, takes a job as an advertising copywriter, he finds he has a ... [... more]
$15.00
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The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
Decent Central Asian Novel -- But of Limited Interest Set mostly in a small railroad crossing in Kazakhstan's Sarozak desert sometime in the latter part of the 20th-century, this novel tells the story of Burrunyi Yedigei's effort to bury his coworker and ... [... more]
$19.95
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The Widow Killer: A Novel
The bloody ironies of World War II have inspired several fine mysteries, including J. Robert Janes's books about a German and French pair of detectives (Mannequin, Salamander) and Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir trilogy. Now the noted Czech author and ... [... more]
$15.00
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Enchantress: Marthe Bibesco and Her World
In the World of Yesterday The life story of this remarkable roumanian writer, Marthe Bibesco - a muse present at the theater of major events in 20th century Europe - unfolds a vivid picture of the aristocracy, the refined belle époque and the ... [... more]
$30.00
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Omon Ra
Named by his father after the Soviet OMON, the Interior Ministry riot police, Omon, a Soviet astronaut, renames himself Ra after the Egyptian sun god. As he approaches his final crisis, Omon reflects on the lies he's told and on the one that has just ... [... more]
$21.00
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Emperor of the Earth: Modes of Eccentric Vision
This stimulating collection of essays, mostly concerned with subjects taken from Slavic literatures, is at once scholarly and reflective. The volume opens with a true story, "Brognart," which is a confession of the author's remorse based on ... [... more]
$25.00
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S.
"While she was in the warehouse S. feared uncertainty. Any kind of certainty seemed preferable to her. Now she was at least rid of that fear. There was no more uncertainty. She was in a storehouse of women, in a room where female bodies were stored ... [... more]
$22.95
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