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		<title>Say Her Name</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through this book, Goldman weaves a complex, rich narrative of his much younger dead wife, Aura Estrada, a PhD literature student at Columbia University; how he was dealing with his extreme loss, shuffles back and forth amongst mystery, biography, and his own meditation on grief in a very humane, very personal way. I think Virginia Woolf once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death and the Dervish</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/12/death-dervish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eastern/Central Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Selimović, Meša]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Meša Selimović (1966)

An account of a Muslim spiritual leader struggling to maintain his dignity and integrity in 18th century Sarajevo.]]></description>
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		<title>Garden, Ashes</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/11/garden-ashes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biography & memoirs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kiš, Danilo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Danilo Kiš (1965)

An intensely detailed semi-autobiographical story about a child living in Hungary during the World War II.]]></description>
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		<title>The Encyclopedia of the Dead</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/11/encyclopedia-of-the-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Danilo Kiš (1983)

A collection of metaphysical short stories set in various times and places, luminously darkened with the themes of fate and death's impenetrability. ]]></description>
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		<title>A Tomb for Boris Davidovich</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/10/tomb-boris-davidovich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Danilo Kiš (1976)

Seven different yet casually interlinked short stories about revolutionaries, mostly centering around the Russian Revolution
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		<title>The White Castle</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/10/white-castle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Orhan Pamuk (1979)

The story of a young Italian savant and his ambivalent relationship his Turkish double in 17th century, their intense struggle of knowledge and power domination]]></description>
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		<title>The Story of Film</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/08/story-of-film/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cousins, Mark]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mark Cousins (2004)

An accessible and engaging sweep of general film history]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian Cinema</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/07/iranian-cinema/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Political History
by Hamid Reza Sadr (2006)

A comprehensive, highly readable history of Iranian cinema with its embedded and reflected social, political, cultural and economic contexts. ]]></description>
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		<title>My Name is Red</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/07/my-name-is-red/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Orhan Pamuk (1998)

A murder mystery in 16th century Istanbul within rich history, religion and aesthetic meditations.]]></description>
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		<title>The Total Library</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/07/total-library/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Borges, Jorge Luis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Non-Fiction 1922-1986
by Jorge Luis Borges

A collection of more than 150 non-fiction pieces (critical essays, movie &#038; book reviews, prologues, introductions).]]></description>
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