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Gilgamesh: A New English Version
Stephen Mitchell
Free Press
Free Press
Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, but until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary text in its own right. Acclaimed by critics and scholars, Stephen Mitchell's version allows us to enter...
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Season of Migration to the North: A Novel
Al-Tayyib Salih; Tayeb Salih
Lynne Rienner Publishers
Lynne Rienner Publishers
Salih's shocking and beautiful novel reveals much about the people on each side of a cultural divide. A brilliant Sudanese student takes his mix of anger and obsession with the West to London, where he has affairs with women who are similarly...
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Things Fall Apart (Cliffs Notes)
John Chua, Suzanne Pavlos
Cliffs Notes
Cliffs Notes
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement...
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Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
Castle Books
Castle Books
This represents the most comprehensive volume of works the Lebanese poet and philosopher ever published. His enriching stories, poems, verse and parables are collected into a beautifully bound collector's edition.
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Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
Mahmoud Darwish
Archipelago Books
Archipelago Books
At once an intimate autobiography and a collective memory of the Palestinian people, Mahmoud Darwish's interlinked poems are collective cries, songs, and glimpses of the human condition. The collection-widely considered his chef-d'oeuvre -is a...
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Woman at Point Zero
Nawal El Saadawi
Zed Books
Zed Books
"All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face. But because I am a woman I have never had the courage to lift my hand. And because I am a...
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
Stanford University Press
Stanford University Press
This translation is a verse rendering of The Epic of Gilgamesh , the cycle of Babylonian poems preserved on clay tablets surviving from ancient Mesopotamia of the third millennium B.C. One of the best and most important piece of epic poetry from...
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The Lion and the Jewel (Three Crowns Book)
Wole Soyinka
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
This is one of the best-known plays by Africa's major dramatist, Wole Soyinka. It is set in the Yoruba village of Ilunjinle. The main characters are Sidi (the Jewel), 'a true village belle' and Baroka (the Lion), the crafty and powerful Bale of...
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