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The Face of Another
Kobo Abe
Paperback - $23.95
Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis," this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a ...
The Ruined Map
Kobo Abe
Paperback - $24.95
Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined Map, he crafted a mesmerizing literary crime novel that combines the narrative suspense of Chandler with the psychological depth of Dostoevsky.
Mr. ...
The Woman in the Dunes
Kobo Abe
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One of the premier Japanese novels of the twentieth century, The Women in the Dunes combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel. In a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, a teacher and amateur entomologist, is held captive with ...
Love at First Flight
Bisi Abejo
Paperback - $44.95
A young woman is returning home to Nigeria from her studies in Britain. This popular novel tells of her romance on the plane, and where it leads.
The Epic
Lascelles Abercrombie
Paperback - $26.95
The prime material of the epic poet, then, must be real and not invented. But when the story of the poem is safely concerned with some reality, he can, of course, graft on this as much appropriate invention as he pleases; it will be one of his ways o ...
The Dancing Masquerade
Femi Abodunrin
Paperback - $33.95
A novel exploring a fictional Nigerian history with strong social, religious and cultural themes running through.
Minaret
Leila Aboulela
Paperback - $21.95
Najwa never imagined that one day she would be a maid. Exiled to London and soon thereafter orphaned, the upperclass Sudanese refugee falls in love with her employer's brother--a love that should not be. This novel is an illuminating glimpse into a c ...
The Translator
Leila Aboulela
Paperback - $33.95
Although they work in the same department at Aberdeen University, she as a translator, he as a lecturer in Postcolonial Politics, Sammar and Rae live in worlds divided by simple facts