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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Masumiyet müzesi	Rafael Carpintero;,Orhan Pamuk	"It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it." So begins the new novel, his first since winning the Nobel Prize, from the universally acclaimed author of Snow and My Name Is Red.It…	OL1019581W
Rouse up o young men of the new age!	Kenzaburō Ōe	"K is a famous writer living in Tokyo with his wife and three children, the oldest of whom was born with a brain anomaly that has left him mentally disabled. A highly cerebral man who often retreats …	OL10339365W
Children of the alley	Naguib Mahfouz	The tale of a Mafia-like don in Egypt. He lives in a mansion in Cairo, uphill at the end of an alley whose inhabitants he exploits. He is the patriarch of a large family whose wealth comes from deali…	OL10355958W
The grandmother's tale and selected stories	Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan	Characters include a storyteller whose magical source of tales dries up, a love-stricken husband who is told by astrologers he must sleep with a prostitute to save his dying wife, a pampered child wh…	OL1057132W
Hong lou meng	Xueqin Cao	The novel provides a detailed, episodic record of the two branches of the wealthy and aristocratic Jia (賈) clan — the Rongguo House (榮國府) and the Ningguo House (寧國府) — who reside in two large, adjace…	OL11557877W
The setting sun	Osamu Dazai	This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effectives of war and the translati…	OL15350754W
Midaq Alley	Naguib Mahfouz	Centers around the residents of one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo.	OL1599750W
رجال في الشمس	Ghassan Kanafani	>Il maturo Abu Qais, il giovane Asad e il ragazzo Marwàn, fuggiaschi dai campi profughi palestinesi, attraversano l'inferno del deserto iracheno rinchiusi dentro un'autocisterna vuota. Con la complic…	OL1603642W
1Q84 [1&2/3]	村上春樹	1984 x 1Q84	OL16533021W
1Q84 [3/3]	村上春樹	W trzecim tomie tej fantastycznej powieści Murakamiego poznajemy dalsze losy Aomame i Tengo rozgrywające się w niezwykłym świecie roku 1Q84. Ona ukrywa się przed zemstą członków sekty za zamordowanie…	OL17534240W
The changeling	Kenzaburō Ōe	Late in his life, writer Kogito Choko reconnects with his estranged friend, the filmmaker Goro Hanawa. Goro's subsequent suicide causes Kogito to examine and reexamine Goro's life for clues that will…	OL17741172W
女のいない男たち	村上春樹	A collection of stories by Haruki Murakami	OL17823896W
騎士団長殺し	村上春樹	"The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Killing Commendatore is an epic tour de force…	OL19754736W
Kanthapura	Raja Rao,Raja Rao	Raja Rao's first and best-known novel, Kanthapura (1938), is the story of a south Indian village named Kanthapura. The novel is narrated in the form of a purana by an old woman of the village, Achakk…	OL2318827W
一人称単数	村上春樹	The eight masterly stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From nostalgic memories of youth, meditations on music and an ardent love of basebal…	OL24145490W
海辺のカフカ	村上春樹	A boy trying to escape a gruesome oedipedal prophecy, a simple man who can talk to cats, a mysterious librarian, and a woman waiting for a long-dead lover.	OL2625431W
羊をめぐる冒険	村上春樹	It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company's advertisement. What he doesn't real…	OL2625441W
図書館奇譚	村上春樹	In a fantastical illustrated short novel, three people imprisoned in a nightmarish library plot their escape.	OL2625505W
Japan Sinks	Sakyō Komatsu	> After dropping anchor for the night near a small island to the south of Japan, a crew of fishermen awaken to find that the island has vanished without a trace. An investigating scientist theorizes …	OL5647195W
細雪 (Sasameyuki)	谷崎潤一郎	The outstanding Japanese novelist of the century...The Makioka Sisters is his greatest book' Edmund White, New York Times Book ReviewTanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the decli…	OL668682W