 | Saudade by Katherine Vaz
Buy used from: $0.66 Erotic and unusual. If for nothing else, read it for its dizzying imagery.
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 | I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
Buy used from: $1.87 Tragic protagonist made sweet and endearing by this Czech author.
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 | Last Nights Of Paris by Philippe Soupault
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.00 Psychologically moving, and mysterious. a great story with no distinct story line.
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 | Stilled: A Three-Story Collection by Kirsten Schmidt
Buy new: $11.95 / Used from: $7.95 Lovely case of "less is more". Sensitivity at its most subtly celebrated heights.
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 | Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I by Henry Miller
Buy new: $11.60 / Used from: $3.85 Everyone says "Tropic of Cancer" is Miller's greatest, but this one lies bursting in the background.
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 | The Vagabond by Colette
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.48 Explores the complex, multi-faceted inner life and thoughts of...just a woman.
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 | Lillelord by Johan Borgen
Buy used from: $9.75 Quietly terrifying look at a boy's miscreant private life that he keeps hidden from his doting family.
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 | The Ice Palace (Peter Owen Modern Classics) by Tarjei Vesaas
Buy used from: $3.98 Author evokes the starkness of Norway's winters. You can feel the darkness settling around you, but the little girl protagonist keeps it at bay.
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 | The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (New York Review Books Classics) by Alvaro Mutis
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $3.74 An incredible epic of a mariner's adventures, both in the world and within himself.
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 | The Invention of Morel (New York Review Books Classics) by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $6.24 A South American "Turn of the Screw" where the reader comes to doubt the protagonist's placement in reality.
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