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		<title>The Ninth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miskin, banyak anak, Katolik, di era berkuasanya Partai Komunis Hongaria pada akhir tahun 1960an, itulah gambaran singkat keadaan keluarga Anak Kesembilan. Anak-anak ini—dalam satu hal atau lainnya—mempunyai berbagai kelainan seperti cacat bicara, sering sakit kepala, dan sebagainya. Setelah memenangkan kompetisi Rumah untuk Keluarga Besar yang diiklankan di koran Manusia Baru, mereka membangun dan menanti-nantikan kepindahan mereka ke Rumah Besar.]]></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>
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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>Hourglass</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/05/hourglass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 18:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Danilo Kiš (1972)

An old railway clerk, preoccupied with his quotidian concerns, attempted to find out why his pension was being reduced as the extermination of the Jews were taking place.]]></description>
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		<title>Natasha&#8217;s Dance</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/01/natashas-dance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Figes, Orlando]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Cultural History of Russia
by Orlando Figes (2002)

Thematically organized, the book encompasses the cultural history of Russia from around 17th to 20th century, with heavy emphasis on the earlier period, especially the 18th and 19th century. Central to all these themes are the questions of quintessential "Russian culture" and national identities.]]></description>
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		<title>A History of Modern Russia</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/01/history-modern-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Service, Robert]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Nicholas II to Putin
by Robert Service (2003)

Lucidly written with a lack of political bent and a handful of wry humour, this revised and updated history of Russia is a useful general reference on Soviet past with the main focus on the period of communist government.]]></description>
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		<title>The Melancholy of Resistance</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2006/11/melancholy-of-resistance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by László Krasznahorkai (1989)

A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the whole world, arrives in the dead of winter in a small town in Hungary, prompting bizarre rumors. ]]></description>
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		<title>Darkness at Noon</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2006/11/darkness-at-noon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Arthur Koestler (1940)

A fictional account of a show trial during Stalin's 1930s purges, Rubashov, the protagonist, once a revolutionary disillusioned by the regime, is abducted, jailed, tortured (psychologically) and finally confessed to a series of "counter-revolutionary" crimes he didn't commit, for the ideals of the Revolution.]]></description>
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