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Colette
Murasaki Shikibu
Herta Müller
Clarice Lispector
Banana Yoshimoto
Alejandra Pizarnik
Simone de Beauvoir
Anne Garréta
Anna Akhmatova
Fariba Vafi
Christa Wolf
Sigrid Undset
Nathalie Sarraute
Laura Esquivel
Can Xue
Elfriede Jelinek
Minae Mizumura
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The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels, #2)
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The Passion According to G.H.
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
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Kristin Lavransdatter
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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (L'amica geniale, #3)
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The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
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So Long a Letter
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The Diary of Lady Murasaki
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The Story of the Lost Child (Neapolitan Novels, #4)
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The Lake
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The Pure and the Impure
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The Collected Stories
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Enfance
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The Hunger Angel
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The Stream of Life
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A Breath of Life
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The Ethics of Ambiguity
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Near to the Wild Heart
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The Quest for Christa T.
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Chéri
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Poems of Akhmatova
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The Land of Green Plums
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The Blood of Others
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The Mandarins
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All Men Are Mortal
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Women as Lovers
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Gunnar's Daughter
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Wonderful, Wonderful Times
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Poesía completa
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Celestial Bodies
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N.P
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Portrait of a Man Unknown
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My Mother's House & Sido
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Requiem
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Hardboiled & Hard Luck
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Cassandra
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The Prime of Life: The Second Volume of Her Autobiography
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Soulstorm: Stories
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The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine
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The Bridal Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1)
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Vertical Motion
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Patterns of Childhood
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The Embroidered Shoes: Stories
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Medea
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A True Novel
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Asleep
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You Don't Love Yourself (Studies in Contemporary Jewry; 6)
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The Cross (Kristin Lavransdatter, #3)
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The Passport
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Astragal
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The Picture Bride
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Humiliation
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Dialogues in Paradise
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Nadirs
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Broken Glass Park
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My Bird
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The Mistress of Husaby (Kristin Lavransdatter, #2)
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No Place on Earth
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All said and done
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Not my forte yet, but just wait, everyone! I'll have all sorts for you in a year or two.
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