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		<title>Persepolis I &amp; II</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2008/02/persepolis-i-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satrapi, Marjene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bande-dessinée]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Marjen Satrapi (2001)

An autobiographical bande dessinée about a girl growing up in revolutionary &#038; war-torn Iran and abroad in Vienna.]]></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>
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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>Kampus Kabelnaya</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biography & memoirs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia & USSR]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Menjadi Mahasiswa di Uni Soviet
by Koesalah Soebagyo Toer (2003)

A collection of vignettes about his study in the then USSR.]]></description>
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		<title>W, or The memory of childhood</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/04/w-memory-childhood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Perec, Georges]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Georges Perec (1975)

A book of two alternating texts, one an imaginary adventure story, the other consisting of autobiographic fragments of wartime childhood.]]></description>
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		<title>Hunger</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/03/hunger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biography & memoirs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hamsun, Knut]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Knut Hamsun (1890)

A poor, emaciated writer, unable to afford a rent (but with too big of an ego), roams the city, his state of mind and physique heavily disoriented by his hunger. ]]></description>
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		<title>Wrong about Japan</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2006/11/wrong-about-japan/</link>
		<comments>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2006/11/wrong-about-japan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carey, Peter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Father's Journey with His Son
by Peter Carey (2004)

Charley, Peter Carey's shy 12-year-old son, together went to Tokyo, guided by Charley's visualist online friend, Takashi.]]></description>
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		<title>Voices from Chernobyl</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2006/11/voices-from-chernobyl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alexievich, Svetlana]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia & USSR]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chronicle of the Future
by Svetlana Alexievich (1997)

“This is not a book about Chernobyl, but about the world of Chernobyl,” a wide range of oral, first-hand testimony, accounts, sometimes occasional rant and condemnations from broad range of people involved and/or affected by Chernobyl.]]></description>
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		<title>Hammer of the Gods</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2006/04/hammer-of-the-gods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biography & memoirs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Davis, Stephen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Led-Zeppelin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Led Zeppelin Unauthorised
by Stephen Davis (1985). 

Probably won't be of much interest to anyone unless a fan. The story of the rise and fall is typical of any rock n' roll group, the usual brainless Zeppelin's vertigious debauchery and misogyny.]]></description>
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		<title>The Periodic Table</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2006/02/periodic-table/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biography & memoirs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Levi, Primo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[short stories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A collection of insightful and understated autobiographical short stories named after elements by Primo Levi.]]></description>
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