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'Juan Gabriel Vsquez is one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature. His first novel, The Informers, a very powerful story about the shadowy years immediately following World War II, is testimony to the richness of his imagination as well as the subtlety and elegance of his prose' Mario Vargas Llosa

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Winner of the Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize, Parkison mixes literary fiction with gritty realities in her second story collection.

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People behave differently at night: feelings of desperation, violence, melancholy surface; nocturnal hunts for adventure, sex, drugs transpire; prowling through shadows... anything. This anthology sheds light on the world that emerges when people sleep and examines the dark side of evening, from prostitution and adultery to hospital and suicide.

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A teenager working in a mountain encampment during the Chinese Cultural Revolution yearns for romance and excitement.

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Against a backdrop of Prohibition, the Vietnam War, and the new millennium, the Verbicaro family makes its way from southern Italy to San Francisco to the Yucatan, finding ways to reinvent themselves as each member brushes up against some aspect of the divine.

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The sights, sounds and smells of Africa come alive in this novel about clashing cultures and the often disastrous consequences of the American helping hand. Nickie joins a Peace Corps-type organization and is assigned to a remote bush school. Immersed in village life, she encounters a multifaceted culture that strains her exotic ideal of Africa as well as her own identity as a white woman.

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Touching on the fundamental of human desires - sex, love, and the need for acceptance - Tiptree Award-winning authors challenge the social identities, simultaneously exploring and expanding gender. This collection gathers short fiction and essays that were chosen by the Tiptree Award judges in 2004, as well as selections from previous years.

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Zelmont has slid a long way since gaining his ability to jook - to out manoeuvre his opponents on the field - winning wide receiver and earned him lucrative endorsement deals. However, a series of missteps have virtually sidelined his career. Now that Los Angeles has a new pro franchise Zelmont has one last chance at the big time he dearly misses.

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Masterful storyteller and Cervantes Prize winner reflects on the power of literature and travel to change our lives

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Moses, a Polish Jew, is fleeing both the Nazis and his own failed marriage; Sahadeva, an itinerant Hindu monk, is trying to resolve his crisis of religious belief. Both men find themselves embroiled in hardship, shame, and chaos, stumbling into scandal and ultimately tragedy.

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Documents an astronaut who launched himself into a black hole. With the recovered fragments of his mind organised alphabetically, this is a deranged dictionary, a poem for the open minded and the unconventional thinker.

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Willibald Brinkmann has more than a sneaking admiration for Hitler - something his Jewish wife Gabi is unable to share. It's 1933, and the humiliated Willibald is forced to find refuge in a village in Austrian Alps. Then the Nazis arrive in Austria. This is the story of Gabi fight to keep her family alive in a world determined to destroy them.

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Dark secrets lurk when three siblings gather for a funeral: a thoughtful dancer back at her bar, a bitter father working in a toothpaste factory, and a fist-fight addict struggling to keep his nose clean. Across town, boy is locked up in a delusional man's home.

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A reunion of friends and lovers; a conspiracy that begins as a joke; a secret to be kept for thirty years-this is a daring, ingenious and profoundly moving political thriller from an author whose career has put him at the very heart of international affairs.

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When a group of international activists arrive on the Faroe Islands, intent on stopping the traditional whale hunts, tensions between islanders and protestors run high. And when a woman is found viciously murdered only hours after a violent confrontation, the circumstances seem purposely designed to increase animosity between the two sides.

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