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1Q84 Murakami by Haruki Murakami
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
"Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves." --"The N ...Show more
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
A House for Mr. Biswas by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul's brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some s ...Show more
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A Man for All Seasons dramatises the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. It depicts the confrontation between church and state, theology and politics, absolute power and individual freedom. Throughout the play Sir Thomas More's eloquence and endurance, his purity, saintliness and tenac ...Show more
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
National Bestseller One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slav ...Show more
A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
Arriving in Istanbul as a boy, Mevlut Karata is enthralled by both the old city that is disappearing and the new one that is fast being built. He becomes a street vendor, like his father, hoping to strike it rich, but luck never seems to be on Mevlut s side. He spends three years writing love letters to ...Show more
After Henry by Joan Didion
Category: Reference | Series: Vintage International Ser.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Didion's "reportorial pieces afford the pleasures of literature.... She is an expert geographer of the landscape of American public culture" (The New York Times Book Review). Here, the National Book Award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking covers ground from Washingto ...Show more
Ake : The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Seymour "Swede" Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumphant postwar America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s. ...Show more
Another Country by James Baldwin
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race, and America in the 1950s. Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his ...Show more
Answered PrayersThe Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Although Truman Capote's last, unfinished novel offers a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time.Tracing the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a louche bar in Tangiers to a banquette at La Côte Basque, from l ...Show more