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RUNAWAY HORSES by YUKIO MISHIMA
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Runaway Horses is the chronicle of a patriotic conspiracy, a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war, in a Japan marked by depression, the confusion of changing social patterns, political violence and assassination. Second in The Sea of Fertility tetralogy. ...Show more
Requiem for a Nun by William Faulkner
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"Nancy, a black nursemaid, is about to be hanged for killing her mistress's baby. The lawyer, Gavin Stevens, compels the mistress to confess the reason for Nancy's crime. The law takes its course; but justice, in Faulkner's sense, has been done."
Runaway by Alice Munro
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013 The incomparable Alice Munro's bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway""is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable ...Show more
Selected Poems: W. H. Auden by W. H. Auden
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The author has restored the early vision of some 30 of his greatest poems, generally considered to be superior to the later versions. Edited by Edward Medelson.
Suttree by Cormac Mc Carthy
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
By the author of Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses, Suttree is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there--a brilli ...Show more
THE SOCCER WAR by KAPUSCINSKI RYSZARD
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Here, with characteris ...Show more
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
An unforgettable and transformative novel that explores race and gender with scorching insight from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine, a sophisticated graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - a black American now living in Paris and Rom ...Show more
The Ark Sakura by Kobo Abe
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A classic from the renowned Japanese novelist about isolation and the threat of a nuclear holocaust, The Ark Sakura is as timely today as it was at its original publication. In this Kafkaesque allegorical fantasy, Mole has converted a huge underground quarry into an "ark" capable of surviving the coming ...Show more
The Box Man by Kobo Abe
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett. In this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the trappi ...Show more
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery... The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilat ...Show more
The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
Begun while the author was imprisoned in a German concentration camp, this extraordinary and profound novel is widely regarded as one of the great works of 20th-century modernism. A work that is part historical novel and part prose poem, it recreates the last 18 hours on the life of Virgil, author of th ...Show more
The Elementary Particles by Houellebecq Michel
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel-part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence. Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drug ...Show more