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The Painting

In 1869 Japan, a young woman escapes the confines of her arranged marriage by painting memories of her lover on mulberry paper. She secretly wraps the painting around a ceramic pot that's bound for Europe. In France, a disenchanted young man works as a clerk at an import shop. When he opens the box from Japan, he discovers the brilliant watercolor of two lovers locked in an embrace under a plum tree. He steals the painting and hides it in his room. With each viewing, he sees something different, and gradually the painting transforms him.

cover of The Paintingauthor: Nina Schuyler
ASIN or ISBN-10: 1565124413
binding: Hardcover
list price: $22.95 USD
amazon price: $8.00 USD


Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

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cover of Mysterious Flame of Queen LoanaASIN or ISBN-10: B001OK6JQE
binding: Unknown Binding
amazon price: $69.90 USD


K.

From the internationally acclaimed author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony comes one of the most significant books in recent years on a writer of perennial interest–a virtuoso interpretation of the work of Franz Kafka.

cover of K.author: Roberto Calasso
ASIN or ISBN-10: 1400076129
binding: Paperback
list price: $17.00 USD
amazon price: $17.00 USD


Skylark Farm

A beautiful, wrenching debut novel chronicling the life of a family struggling for survival during the Armenian genocide in Turkey, in 1915.

cover of Skylark Farmauthor: Antonia Arslan
ASIN or ISBN-10: 1400044359
binding: Hardcover
list price: $23.95 USD
amazon price: $39.51 USD


The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in the hills between Milan and Turin. There, in the sprawling attic, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries.

cover of The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanaauthor: Umberto Eco
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0156030438
binding: Paperback
list price: $18.00 USD
amazon price: $18.00 USD


Pinocchio (New York Review Books Classics)

Though one of the best-known books in the world, Pinocchio at the same time remains unknown—linked in many minds to the Walt Disney movie that bears little relation to Carlo Collodi’s splendid original. That story is of course about a puppet who, after many trials, succeeds in becoming a “real boy.” Yet it is hardly a sentimental or morally improving tale. To the contrary, Pinocchio is one of the great subversives of the written page, a madcap genius hurtled along at the pleasure and mercy of his desires, a renegade who in many ways resembles his near contemporary Huck Finn.

cover of Pinocchio (New York Review Books Classics)author: Carlo Collodi
ASIN or ISBN-10: 1590172892
binding: Paperback
list price: $14.00 USD
amazon price: $11.83 USD


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