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The renowned French author’s modern masterpiece: “one of the great novels of the century . . . on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov” (Boston Globe).
Structured around a single moment in time—8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975—Georges Perec’s “elaborate jigsaw puzzle of a novel” begins in an apartment block in Paris where, chapter by chapter, room by room,...
Structured around a single moment in time—8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975—Georges Perec’s “elaborate jigsaw puzzle of a novel” begins in an apartment block in Paris where, chapter by chapter, room by room,...
2) Honeymoon
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"With the simple, melodious prose of a born storyteller and the spare intensity that has become his trademark, Modiano constructs an existential tale of suspense and longing, and of the past's hold over a shifting, ambiguous present. In the words of Le Monde, this novel truly shows 'a magician at work'."--Jacket.
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Verba Mundi volume 8
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An amnesiac searches for his identity, from Polynesia to Rome, in this novel by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Dora Bruder.
Guy Roland is in pursuit of the identity he lost in the murky days of the Paris Occupation. For ten years, he has lived without a past. His current life and name were given to him by his recently retired boss, Hutte, who welcomed him, a onetime client, into his detective agency. Guy makes full use of Hutte's...
Guy Roland is in pursuit of the identity he lost in the murky days of the Paris Occupation. For ten years, he has lived without a past. His current life and name were given to him by his recently retired boss, Hutte, who welcomed him, a onetime client, into his detective agency. Guy makes full use of Hutte's...
4) Desert
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Verba Mundi volume 15
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2009.
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First U.S. edition.
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The internationally acclaimed novel based on the heroic resistance during the Armenian genocide of 1915.
This is the story of how the people of several Armenian villages in the mountains along the coast of present-day Turkey and Syria chose not to obey the Turkish government’s deportation order. Instead, they fortified a plateau on the slopes of Musa Dagh—Mount Moses—and repelled Turkish soldiers and military police
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