Cultural Region/Eastern Europe
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Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces
$30.00 Add to cart“Unquestionably one of the great living European poets. She’s accessible and deeply human and a joy–though it is a dark kind of joy–to read. . . . She is a poet to live with.” —Robert Hass, The Was
- Author: Szymborska, Wislawa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 28 2002
- ISBN10: 0151006601
- Language: English
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The Yellow Bird Sings
$16.99 Add to cartNational Jewish Book Award Finalist
Rosner’s exquisite, heart-rending debut novel is proof that there’s always going to be room for another story about World War II….This is an absolutely beautiful- Author: Rosner, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1250179785
- Language: English
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The Essential Tales of Chekhov
$19.99 Add to cartOf the two hundred stories that Anton Chekhov wrote, the twenty stories that appear in this extraordinary collection were personally chosen by Richard Ford–an accomplished storyteller in his own rig
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0060956569
- Language: English
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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
$17.00 Read moreTadeusz Borowski’s concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides co… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Modern Classics
- Author: Borowski, Tadeusz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140186247
- Language: English
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On Czeslaw Milosz: Visions from the Other Europe
$38.25 Read moreA compelling personal introduction to the life and work of Nobel Prize–winning writer Czeslaw Milosz from his fellow Polish exile and acclaimed writer Eva Hoffman
Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was a gian- Series: Writers on Writers #14
- Author: Hoffman, Eva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0691212694
- Language: English
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Life Is Elsewhere
$17.99 Add to cart“I will say no more about this lacerating book except to urge it upon all who care about literature in our difficult era.” — Boston Globe
“A sly and merciless lampoon of revolutionary romanticism. . .
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 25 2000
- ISBN10: 0060997028
- Language: English
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Kafka: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFranz Kafka is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the last century. During his lifetime he worked as a civil servant and published only a handful of short stories, the best known bei… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Robertson, Ritchie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0192804553
- Language: English
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The Metamorphosis
$5.99 Add to cart“Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.”-W.H. Auden
“The common experience of Kafka’s readers is one of general and vague fascination, even in stories they f
- Series: Mint Editions (Philosophical and Theological Work)
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1513263528
- Language: English
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Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz
$20.99 Add to cartWinner of the Yad Vashem International Book Book Prize for Holocaust Research
“A substantive contribution to the history of ethnic strife and extreme violence” (The Wall Street Journal) and a cautiona- Author: Bartov, Omer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1451684541
- Language: English
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Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth
$20.00 Read moreThe mercurial, self-mythologizing novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the 20th-century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was the finest observer and chronicler of his age.
Endless Flight trave
- Author: Pim, Keiron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 178378511X
- Language: English
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The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Caldecott Honor Book)
$25.99 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
“I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side–the Communist side–of the Iron Curtain.” Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter- Author: Sís, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: August 21 2007
- ISBN10: 0374347018
- Language: English
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
$22.00 Add to cartNational Book Award Finalist
TIME Magazine’s #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012
A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012
Best Nonfiction of 2012: The Wall Street Journal, The Plain De… [more below]- Author: Applebaum, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 140009593X
- Language: English
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Don’t Tell the Nazis
$8.99 Read moreMarsha Forchuk Skrypuch (author of Making Bombs for Hitler) crafts a story of ultimate compassion and sacrifice based on true events during WWII.
The year is 1941. Krystia lives in a small Ukrainian vi
- Author: Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1338713639
- Language: English
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History of Eastern Europe: A Captivating Guide to a Shortened History of Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia
$32.99 Add to cartHow much Eastern European history do you know?
The story of Eastern Europe is one of successes and failures, competing interests, and the rise and fall of states and empires. The ancient Greek and Roma
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: October 31 2021
- ISBN10: 163716503X
- Language: English
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The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
$19.99 Read moreThe hysterical, clever, and unforgettable sequel to Jonas Jonasson’s international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.
He’s back. Even older. Even funnier
- Author: Jonasson, Jonas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0062838555
- Language: English
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A Russian Journal
$17.00 Add to cartSteinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.
A Penguin Classic Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0141180196
- Language: English
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The Captive Mind
$19.00 Add to cart- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Milosz, Czeslaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 11 1990
- ISBN10: 0679728562
- Language: English
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The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithu
$18.95 Read moreThe acclaimed author of Sovietistan travels along the seemingly endless Russian border and reveals the deep and pervasive influence it has had across half the globe.
Imperial, communist or autocratic,- Author: Fatland, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1643139495
- Language: English
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The Ministry of Pain
$18.00 Add to cartHaving fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of w
- Author: Ugresic, Dubravka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0060825855
- Language: English
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I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust
$8.99 Add to cartWhat is death all about? What is life all about?
So wonders thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann as she fights for her life in a Nazi concentration camp. A remarkable memoir, I Have Lived a Thousand Yea- Author: Bitton-Jackson, Livia
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0689823959
- Language: English
