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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
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Can Xue
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The Tale of Genji
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The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels, #2)
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The Piano Teacher
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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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Lust
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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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