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Book Cover for: This Blinding Absence of Light, Tahar Ben Jelloun

This Blinding Absence of Light

Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Tahar Ben Jelloun — This Blinding Absence of Light https://t.co/aAqUqL10zt

Hardcover, 2002

$23.95$11.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov
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Nabokov, one of literature’s greatest stylists, is at the height of his powers in Lolita ... In Nabokov’s tightening, glittering web, Humbert is seducing the reader in the same way he’s working to abuse Dolores: gaining trust through charm, in pursuit of disgusting designs.

Paperback, 1989

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner), William Finnegan

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

William Finnegan
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The New Yorker writer ... understands that he adores something that has the capacity to both save his life and kill him; the ocean is at once “the object of your deepest desire and adoration,” he writes, and “like an uncaring God, endlessly dangerous, powerful beyond measure.”

Paperback, 2016

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby

Fever Pitch

Nick Hornby
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the book unfolds scene after scene of agony, each funnier and more morose than the last. Being a sports fan in Hornby’s world is essentially an exercise in despondency—any league or tournament is set up so that only one team can ever really win.

Paperback, 1998

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The House of Rust, Khadija Abdalla Bajaber

The House of Rust

Khadija Abdalla Bajaber
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In the new (fiftieth!) issue of the @JoburgReview, I write about Khadija Bajaber’s The House of Rust, and explore what her Mombasa means to her, and what her writing means to us, Kenyan writers & readers https://johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2022/05/02/tales-from-mombasa-carey-baraka-speaks-to-khadija-abdalla-bajaber-about-her-award-winning-debut-novel-the-house-of-rust/

Paperback, 2021

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Stranger, Albert Camus

The Stranger

Albert Camus
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And if Gigi Hadid wants to carry around a copy of Albert Camus’s “The Stranger” (1942) during Milan Fashion Week, why shouldn’t she? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/18/t-magazine/book-stylists-instagram-influencers.html

Paperback, 1989

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Stranger: (Annotated Edition), Albert Camus

The Stranger: (Annotated Edition)

Albert Camus
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And if Gigi Hadid wants to carry around a copy of Albert Camus’s “The Stranger” (1942) during Milan Fashion Week, why shouldn’t she? https://t.co/Gtit68m0R2

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