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		<title>Last Evenings on Earth</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2008/01/last-evenings-on-earth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolaño Roberto]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Roberto Bolaño. A collection of short stories, written as if witness to a crime.]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Eastern/Central Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kiš, Danilo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia & USSR]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hungarian-Literature]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Eastern/Central Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kiš, Danilo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russian-Revolution]]></category>
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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>Japanese Tales of Mystery &amp; Imagination</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/08/japanese-tales-mystery-imagination/</link>
		<comments>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/08/japanese-tales-mystery-imagination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rampo, Edogawa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[short stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[horror]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Edogawa Rampo (1956)

A lucidly-translated collection of short mystery stories by Japan's most famous mystery writer.]]></description>
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		<title>Piano Stories</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/04/piano-stories/</link>
		<comments>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/04/piano-stories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hernández, Felisberto]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Felisberto Hernández (1993)

Fifteen short stories of fluid, phantasmagorical animistic worlds where everyday objects take a life of their own, eliciting delicate forgotten responses, thoughts, feelings and memories, all of them inevitably in one way or another relate to a piano.]]></description>
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		<title>Telling Tales</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/03/telling-tales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gordimer, Nadine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saramago, Jose]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Nadine Gordimer (ed.) (2004) A collection of stories hand-picked by their world-renowned writers, inadvertently dealing with the subject of sex and death (but not directly with HIV/AIDS) in a myriad of genres.]]></description>
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		<title>Jump</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2006/05/jump/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2006 13:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordimer, Nadine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[and Other Stories
by Nadine Gordimer (1991). 

Stories of (moral and psychological tensions of) life in racially-divided countries written with seemingly no committed specific political ideologies.]]></description>
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		<title>The Cyberiad</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2006/03/cyberiad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lem, Stanisław]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poland]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fables for the Cybernetic Age by 
Stanisław Lem (1975). 

A collection of fairy-tale-ish science fiction stories focusing on the adventures of Trurl and Klapaucius, two best friends and rival intelligent robot “constructors”.]]></description>
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		<title>The Monkey&#8217;s Wrench</title>
		<link>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2006/03/monkeys-wrench/</link>
		<comments>http://books.coffee-cat.net/2006/03/monkeys-wrench/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Levi, Primo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Primo Levi

Narrative is contained within another narrative in this novel, as Faussone, an exuberant rigger, tells his stories of working to a chemist-writer narrator (no doubt Levi’s alter ego):his constructions, an adventurous monkey, a machine that caught stardust, a name gone wrong, overcoming the fear of water, from India, Russia to Alaska.]]></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[holocaust]]></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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