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    <![CDATA[I Spit on Your Graves]]>
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    <![CDATA[Published in Paris in 1946 as a hardboiled thriller loaded with sex and blood, allegedly censored in the US and &quot;translated&quot; into French--<em>I Spit On Your Graves</em> was both a pure mystification and direct home to American literature and movies. More deeply, it was a violent attack on racism by a jazz fan who had already befriended many black musicians and was to become the closest French friend of Ellington, Davis, and Parker. Find out why this young author outstripped sales of Malraux, Camus, Sartre, and de Beauvoir when it appeared in France...and continues to scandalize today.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The novel arose as a bet between Vian and his friend the publisher Jean d'Halluin of Editions du Scorpions. D'Halluin needed a bestseller and Vian declared that he could construct for him a piece with just the right admixture of sex, violence and race relations. I Spit on Your Graves, Vian's f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4313364">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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