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  • Ka by Roberto Calasso

    Ka by Roberto Calasso

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    'To read Ka is to experience a giddy invasion of stories - brilliant, enigmatic, troubling, outrageous, erotic, beautiful' The New York Times'Who?' - or 'ka' - is the question that runs through...
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  • Ardor by Roberto Calasso

    Ardor by Roberto Calasso

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    In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom the Paris Review has called 'a literary institution', explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people who lived...
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  • Bobi by Roberto Calasso 9788433949264

    Bobi by Roberto Calasso 9788433949264

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788433949264Author Roberto CalassoFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint
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  • The Art of the Publisher by Roberto Calasso

    The Art of the Publisher by Roberto Calasso

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    'All the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain'In this fascinating memoir and manifesto the author and publisher Roberto Calasso meditates on the art of book...
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  • The Unnamable Present by Roberto Calasso

    The Unnamable Present by Roberto Calasso

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    Tourists, terrorists, secularists, hackers, fundamentalists, transhumanists, algorithmicians: in this book Roberto Calasso considers the tribes that inhabit and inform the world today. A world that...
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  • K. by Roberto Calasso 9781400076123

    K. by Roberto Calasso 9781400076123

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400076123Author Roberto CalassoFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint
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  • The Book of All Books by Roberto Calasso

    The Book of All Books by Roberto Calasso

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    'Beautiful, intellectually thrilling . . . unlike anything else' TelegraphPromise and separation. Grace and guilt. The chosen and the damned. Roberto Calasso's captivating retelling of key stories...
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  • The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso 9780374252106

    The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso 9780374252106

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374252106Author Roberto CalassoFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint
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  • The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso 9780141397016

    The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso 9780141397016

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    A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and artThe Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects: "the first is Talleyrand, and the second is...
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  • La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso

    La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso

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    Roberto Calasso is one of the most original and acclaimed of writers on literature, art, culture and mythology. In Baudelaire's Folly, Calasso turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in...
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  • The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso

    The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso

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    'It will be read and re-read not as a treatise but as a story: one of the most extraordinary that has ever been written of the origins of Western self-consciousness' Simon SchamaThe marriage of...
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  • Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy 9780811229036

    Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy 9780811229036

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    A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: "At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell." But...
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  • A Double Thread by John Gross 9780099422266

    A Double Thread by John Gross 9780099422266

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    John Gross was the son of a Jewish doctor who practised in Mile End at the time of WW2. His parents were the children of immigrants, steeped in the language and traditions of a European past, yet...
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  • Who Among Us? by Mario Benedetti 9780241350997

    Who Among Us? by Mario Benedetti 9780241350997

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    'This novel is a jewel ... one of those books that enters the soul, which it is impossible not to be conquered by. It is a masterpiece like few others' Huffington PostMiguel and Alicia fall...
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  • Critical Theory and the Classical World by Martyn Hudson

    Critical Theory and the Classical World by Martyn Hudson

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    This book radically re-examines Europe's imaginaries of its origin in the ancient Greek world. Extracting central concepts of critical theory in its widest sense - beyond the Frankfurt School - like...
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  • The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel 9780300151305

    The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel 9780300151305

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    A celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universe Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire,...
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  • Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume I, Issue 2 by Leon Wieseltier

    Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume I, Issue 2 by Leon Wieseltier

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    Liberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics features original essays and poetry from some of today's best writers and artists to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of...
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  • Under the Jaguar Sun by Italo Calvino

    Under the Jaguar Sun by Italo Calvino

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    A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able...
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  • The Zurau Aphorisms by Franz Kafka 9781846558382

    The Zurau Aphorisms by Franz Kafka 9781846558382

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    Franz Kafka spent eight months at his sister's house in Zurau between September 1917 and April 1918, enduring the onset of tuberculosis. Illness paradoxically set him free to write, in a series of...
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  • Notes Without a Text by Roberto Bazlen 9781628973129

    Notes Without a Text by Roberto Bazlen 9781628973129

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    An advisor to Italian publishing houses, a translator of Freud and Jung, a friend of Montale and Calvino, Roberto Bazlen was nothing if not a literary man, but kept his writings to himself.Here,...
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  • Numbers in the Dark by Italo Calvino

    Numbers in the Dark by Italo Calvino

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    Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty...
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  • Silk Alessandro Baricco 9781786896421

    Silk Alessandro Baricco 9781786896421

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    In 1861 French silkworm merchant Herve Joncour travels to Japan, where he encounters the mysterious Hara Kei. He develops a painful longing for Kei's beautiful concubine - but they cannot touch; they...
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  • The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks

    The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks

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    'Elegantly written, full of wit and charm, this is travel writing at its very best' Orlando FigesIn the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy's legendary revolutionary hero, fled Rome and led...
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  • The World Machine by Paolo Volponi 9781803093765

    The World Machine by Paolo Volponi 9781803093765

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    A vivid and unforgettable novelistic portrait of rural Italy, exploring the nature of reality and the human condition. A small-time farmer living in central Italy in the 1960s is the keeper of a...
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  • Night Bus Ann Goldstein 9781904738114

    Night Bus Ann Goldstein 9781904738114

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    Leila is young, beautiful and a hustler. She robs hapless men picked up in the trendy nightclubs of Bologna. Easy money, until she ends up with a document at the centre of a carefully crafted plot of...
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  • Difficult Loves and Other Stories by Italo Calvino

    Difficult Loves and Other Stories by Italo Calvino

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    A spectacular display of this key European writer's early workThis dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates...
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  • The Living Goddess: A Journey into the Heart of Kathmandu by Isabella Tree 9781780600468

    The Living Goddess: A Journey into the Heart of Kathmandu by Isabella Tree 9781780600468

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    In a small medieval palace on Kathmandu's Durbar Square lives Nepal's famous Living Goddess - a child as young as three who is chosen from a caste of Buddhist goldsmiths to watch over the country and...
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  • Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino

    Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino

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    Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with...
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  • Calm: Vintage Minis Tim Parks 9781784872595

    Calm: Vintage Minis Tim Parks 9781784872595

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    How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With brutal...
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  • An Iliad: A Story of War Alessandro Baricco 9781847671035

    An Iliad: A Story of War Alessandro Baricco 9781847671035

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    Alessandro Baricco re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of 21 Homeric characters. Sacrificing none of Homer's panoramic scope, Baricco forgoes Homer's detachment and admits us to realms of...
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  • Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino

    Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino

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    Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek...
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  • If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino

    If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino

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    A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But there is a printer's...
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  • The Story of Manu by Allasani Peddana 9780674427761

    The Story of Manu by Allasani Peddana 9780674427761

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    The literary jewel of Telegu civilization, translated for the first time into any language.Manucaritramu, or The Story of Manu, by the early sixteenth-century poet Allasani Peddana, is the definitive...
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  • Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks

    Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks

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    'Parks...offers detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes Italians so Italian' The TimesHow does Italy really work?When Valeria travels from hot, dusty Basilicata to begin...
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  • HOPE: The Autobiography Author 241768 9780241764107

    HOPE: The Autobiography Author 241768 9780241764107

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    The groundbreaking, intimate and inspiring memoir from Pope Francis.Pope Francis originally intended this exceptional book to appear only after his death, but the needs of our times and the 2025...
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  • The History of Akbar, Volume 6 by Abu'l-Fazl

    The History of Akbar, Volume 6 by Abu'l-Fazl

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    The exemplar of Indo-Persian history, at once a biography of Emperor Akbar and a chronicle of sixteenth-century Mughal India.Akbarnama, or The History of Akbar, by Abu'l-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the...
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  • The History of Akbar, Volume 5 by Abu'l-Fazl

    The History of Akbar, Volume 5 by Abu'l-Fazl

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    The exemplar of Indo-Persian history, at once a biography of Emperor Akbar and a chronicle of sixteenth-century Mughal India.Akbarnama, or The History of Akbar, by Abu'l-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the...
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  • Mr Geography Tim Parks 9781787304536

    Mr Geography Tim Parks 9781787304536

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    Daniel Burrow once began a beautiful walk from Konstanz to Como with Julia, mercurial professor of literature, mother to two of his pupils, married, and the love of his life.After years of their...
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  • Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks

    Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks

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    Should you finish every book you start?How has your family influenced the way you read?What is literary style?How is the Nobel Prize like the World Cup?Why do you hate the book your friend likes?Is...
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  • The History of Akbar: Volume 8 by Abu'l-Fazl

    The History of Akbar: Volume 8 by Abu'l-Fazl

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    The exemplar of Indo-Persian history, at once a biography of Emperor Akbar and a chronicle of sixteenth-century Mughal India.Akbarnama, or The History of Akbar, by Abu'l-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the...
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