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5.24.08

Eva Peron

Eva Peron was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of the 20th century, inspiring both...

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6.02.08

The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also rises is considered the first great novel by Ernest Hemingway. Set in France and Spain...

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6.09.08

Alice Waters - Chez Panisse

In a little known restaurant in Berkley, California, Chef Alice Waters changed the way we would forever look at food...

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This weeks featured book

5.17.2008

Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata

To this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature. As he chronicles the affair between a wealthy dilettante and the mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, one of Japan's greatest writers creates a work that is dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.

The novel is rich in symbolism and references to Japanese traditions and mythology.

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