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The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis de Bernières
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The skirmishes are so severe that the Government dispatches a squadron of soldiers led by the fat, brutal and stupid Figueras to deal with them. Despite visiting pla ...Show more
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Egypt, 1964. The great temple at Abu Simbel must be dismantled and resurrected high above the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. This daunting task is overseen by Avery, a young engineer who, at the same time, is carefully building a life with his new wife, Jean. But not everything can be saved once the fl ...Show more
The Woman Warrior - Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"A classic, for a reason" - Celeste Ng via Twitter In her award-winning book The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston created an entirely new form--an exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in i ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage International Ser.
From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals m ...Show more
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
1. In Australia, Ned Kelly is so revered as a national icon that his image was placed on center stage during the opening ceremonies of the Summer 2000 Olympic Games. Though his legacy is still controversial and some regard him as a criminal and murderer, he is widely seen as a champion of the oppressed ...Show more
Under the Glacier by Halldor Laxness
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness's Under the Glacier""is a""one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Sn?fells Glacier, who, among other things, ...Show more
Washington, D.C: A Novel by Gore Vidal
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
With a New Introduction Washington, D.C., is the final installment in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire, his acclaimed six-volume series of historical novels about the American past. It offers an illuminating portrait of our republic from the time of the New Deal to the McCar-thy era. Widely regarded as ...Show more
Wind/PinballHear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 (Two Novels) by Haruki Murakami
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Wind/Pinball, a unique two-in-one volume, includes, on one side, Murakami's first novel Hear the Wind Sing. When you flip the book over, you can read his second novel, Pinball, 1973. Each book has its own stunning cover. In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at hi ...Show more
You'RE an Animal, Viskovitz by Alessandro Boffa
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A hilarious collection of fables, each featuring Viskovitz and his never-ending search for his true love, Ljuba, as they change from dung beetle to police dog, from lion to microbe. 20 illustrations.