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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: The attic: memoir of a Chinese landlord's son Author: Cao, Guanlong 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Autobiography \| Literature in Translation \| China \| Asian Literature Publisher's Description: Novelist Guanlong Cao's autobiographical account of growing up in urban Shanghai affords a rare glimpse into daily life during the forty turbulent years following the Communist Revolution. Forced to the bottom of Chinese society as "class enemies," Cao's family eked out a meager existence in a cramp . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Aunt Safiyya and the monastery: a novel Author: Ṭāhir, Bahāʾ 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Literature in Translation \| Fiction Publisher's Description: This brief, beautifically crafted novel introduces one of the finest contemporary Arab novelists to English-speaking audiences. In it, Bahaa' Taher, one of a group of Egyptian writers - including the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz - noted for their revealing portraits of Egyptian life and society, te . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Darkness moves: an Henri Michaux anthology, 1927-1984 Author: Michaux, Henri 1899- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: Henri Michaux defies common critical definition. Critics have compared his work to such diverse artists as Kafka, Goya, Swift, Klee, and Beckett. Allen Ginsberg called Michaux "genius," and Jorge Luis Borges wrote that Michaux's work "is without equal in the literature of our time." This anthology c . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Death before dying: the Sufi poems of Sultan Bahu Author: Sult̤ān Bāhū 1630-1691 Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature \| Religion \| Poetry \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Literature in Translation \| Islam \| South Asia Publisher's Description: These 115 poems introduce readers in English to Sultan Bahu (d. 1691), a Sufi mystical poet who continues to be one of the most beloved writers in Punjabi. Bahu, whose name translates as "With God," remains highly popular in Pakistan and India today - even illiterate Punjabis can recite his poetry b . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Encounter: a novel of nineteenth-century Korea Author: Han, Mu-suk 1918- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| Asian Literature \| South Asia Publisher's Description: This historical novel, Encounter ( Mannam ), by Hahn Moo-Sook, one of Asia's most honored writers, is a story of the resilience in the Korean spirit. It is told through the experiences of Tasan, a high-ranking official and foremost Neo-Confucian scholar at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Be . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Facundo: civilization and barbarism: the first complete English translation Author: Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino 1811-1888 Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Literature \| History \| Latin American History \| Politics \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: A classic work of Latin American literature, Domingo Sarmiento's Facundo has become an integral part of the history, politics, and culture of Latin America since its first publication in 1845. Partially translated into English when it was first published, this foundational text appears here for the . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Himalayan voices: an introduction to modern Nepali literature Author: Hutt, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| South Asia Publisher's Description: While the natural splendor of Nepal has been celebrated in many books, very little of the substantial body of Nepali literature has appeared in English translation. Himalayan Voices provides admirers of Nepal and lovers of literature with their first glimpse of the vibrant literary scene in Nepal to . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: The honeysuckle and the hazel tree: medieval stories of men and women Author: Terry, Patricia Ann 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| European Literature \| Poetry \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| French Studies \| Medieval Studies \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Known for her fine translations of octosyllabic narrative verse, Patricia Terry presents translations of four major practitioners of this dominant literary form of twelfth- and thirteenth-century France. Her introduction discusses the varying views of women and love in the texts and their place in t . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Immanent visitor: selected poems of Jaime Saenz Author: Sáenz, Jaime Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature \| Poetry \| Latin American Studies \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: Immanent Visitor is the first English-language translation of the work of Bolivia's greatest and most visionary twentieth-century poet. A poète maudit, Jaime Saenz rejected the conventions of polite society and became a monk in service of his own imagination. Apocalyptic and occult in his politics, . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Inscribed landscapes: travel writing from imperial China Author: Strassberg, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: Alongside the scores of travel books about China written by foreign visitors, Chinese travelers' impressions of their own country rarely appear in translation. This anthology is the only comprehensive collection in English of Chinese travel writing from the first century A.D. through the nineteenth. . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Interpreting the self: autobiography in the Arabic literary tradition Author: Reynolds, Dwight Fletcher 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies \| Literature in Translation \| Comparative Literature \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demonstrates the existence of a flourishing tradition in Arabic autobiography. Interpreting the Self disc . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Memory for forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 Author: Darwīsh, Maḥmūd Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Rhetoric Publisher's Description: One of the Arab world's greatest living poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: The moon and the zither: the story of the western wing Author: Wang, Shifu fl. 1295-1307 Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| China \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: China's most important love comedy, Wang Shifu's Xixiangji , or The Story of the Western Wing , is a rollicking play that chronicles the adventures of the star-crossed lovers Oriole and Student Zhang. Since its appearance in the thirteenth century, it has enjoyed unparalleled popularity. The play ha . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: The novel according to Cervantes Author: Gilman, Stephen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Literature \| European Literature \| European History \| Literature in Translation \| Intellectual History Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Of women, outcastes, peasants, and rebels: a selection of Bengali short stories Author: Bardhan, Kalpana Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| Fiction \| South Asia Publisher's Description: Until now the large body of socially focused Bengali literature has remained little known to Western readers. This collection includes some of the finest examples of Bengali short stories - stories that reflect the turmoil of a changing society traditionally characterized by rigid hierarchical struc . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Propertius in love: the elegies Author: Propertius, Sextus Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Literature in Translation \| Poetry \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Renard the Fox Author: Terry, Patricia Ann 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Poetry \| Literature in Translation \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Renard the Fox is the first modern translation into English of one of the most important and influential medieval books. Valued for its comic spirit, its high literary quality, and its clever satire of feudal society, the tale uses animals to represent the members of various classes. This lively and . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Revenge in Attic and later tragedy Author: Burnett, Anne Pippin 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: Modern readings of ancient Athenian drama tend to view it as a presentation of social or moral problems, as if ancient drama showed the same realism seen on the present-day stage. Such views are belied by the plays themselves, in which supremely violent actions occur in a legendary time and place di . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sappho's lyre: archaic lyric and women poets of ancient Greece Author: Rayor, Diane J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Literature in Translation \| Poetry Publisher's Description: Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this un . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Selected letters of Alessandra Strozzi Author: Macinghi Strozzi, Alessandra 1407-1471 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Renaissance History \| Women's Studies \| European Studies \| Literature in Translation \| Autobiography \| European History \| Letters Publisher's Description: The letters of Alessandra Strozzi provide a vivid and spirited portrayal of life in fifteenth-century Florence. Among the richest autobiographical materials to survive from the Italian Renaissance, the letters reveal a woman who fought stubbornly to preserve her family's property and position in adv . . . [more] Similar Items

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