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1Q84 3 VOLUME BOXED SET by MURAKAMI HARUKI
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
This deluxe three-volume paperback boxed set--gorgeously designed editions in a see-through case, with a removeable sticker on the shrink wrap packaging--is a collector's item in the making. It beautifully showcases Haruki Murakami's most ambitious novel yet, 1Q84--a love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a ...Show more
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 Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
An engrossing examination of political and personal life in Central America, from the award-winning author of THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING. Writing with the economical swiftness and concentrated perception that has made her one of America's most distinguished writers, Joan Didion creates a gleaming nove ...Show more
A Free Life by Ha Jin
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A "New York Times" Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: "Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Weekly, Slate"In A Free Life, Ha Jin follows the Wu family -- father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao -- as they sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at ...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: Fiction | 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 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
ABYSSINIAN CHRONICLES by ISEGAWA MOSES
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children" "and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Moses Isegawa's Abyssinian Chronicles tells a riveting story of twentieth-century Africa that is passionate in vision and breathtaking in scope. At the center of this unforgettable tale is Mugezi, a y ...Show more
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"Absalom, Absalom!is the story of Thomas Sutpen and his ruthless, single-minded pursuit of his grand design--to forge a dynasty in Jefferson, Mississippi, in 1830--which is ultimately destroyed (along with Sutpen himself) by his own sons. A century later, the fugure of Sutpen continues to haunt young Qu ...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
All That Is : A Novel by James Salter
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
An extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master: a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World War II. From his experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position ...Show more