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Gitanjali

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Rabindranath Tagore

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“Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure”

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Opening lines of Gitanjali/Song offerings (1910)

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The language Gitanjali is written in

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Bengali

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The language the woman speaks in the novel Brick Lane (an east London street)

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Bengali

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Cairo Trilogy (written in Arabic)

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Naguib Mahfouz

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Season of Migration to the North

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Tayeb Salih

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Interpreter of Maladies

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Jhumpa Lahiri

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“A Temporary Matter”

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Interpreter of Maladies

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“This Blessed House”

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Jhumpa Lahiri

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“Only Goodness”

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Jhumpa Lahiri

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Unaccustomed Earth

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Jhumpa Lahiri

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The Izu Dancer/The Dancing Girl of Izu

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Yasunari Kawabata

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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

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Mario Vargas Llosa

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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

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Pablo Neruda

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“Tonight I can write the saddest lines”

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The penultimate poem in Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

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“Ode to the Onion”

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Pablo Neruda

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17
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It can “make us cry without hurting us”

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“Ode to the Onion”

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18
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The final work in this collection describes a woman who “swallowed everything, like distance” before repeatedly lamenting that “in you everything sank”

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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

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19
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Library of Babel

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Jorge Luis Borges

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Garden of Forking Paths

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Jose Luis Borges

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21
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People search for their “Vindications” in this short story

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The Library of Babel

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22
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“The Heights of Machu Picchu”

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Pablo Neruda

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23
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This writer uses a signature green ink

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Pablo Neruda

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The House of Spirits

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Isabel Allende

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25
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This novel begins with the gift of pet dog Barabbas

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The House of Spirits

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26
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Trueba Family

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The House of Spirits

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Student Alba

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The House of Spirits

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Green-haired Rosa

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The House of Spirits

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Midnight’s Children

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Salman Rushdie

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Saleem Sinai

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Midnight’s Children

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“A Quiet Night Thought”

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This poet had several poems translated by Ezra Pound

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“The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”

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Kiss of the Spider Woman

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Manuel Puig

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July’s People

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Nadine Gordimer

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The Conservationist

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Nadine Gordimer

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“The Aleph”

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Jorge Luis Borges

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Richard Madden

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The Garden of Forking Paths

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Yu Tsun (spy)

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The Garden of Forking Paths

40
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Macondo

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Buendía Family

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Mr. Herbert and Mr. Brown try to bring a plantation to the central city in this novel

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Cry, the Beloved Country

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Alan Paton

44
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Stephen Kumalo

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Cry, the Beloved Country

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Theophilius Msimangu

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Cry, the Beloved Country

46
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Arthur Jarvis

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Cry, the Beloved Country

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Ah, But Your Land is Beautiful

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Alan Paton

48
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The White Tiger

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Aravind Adiga

49
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Tale of Genji

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Lady Murasaki Shikibu

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Lady Aoi

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Tale of Genji

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The chapter “Vanished into the Clouds”

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Tale of Genji

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“The Other”

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Jorge Luis Borges

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Ficciones

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Jorge Luis Borges

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The Book of Sand

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Jorge Luis Borges

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A Universal History of Infamy

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Jorge Luis Borges

56
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Tom Castro

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A Universal History of Infamy

57
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“Death and the Compass”

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Jorge Luis Borges

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Eva Luna

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Isabel Allende

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Consuelo

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Rashomon

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Ryunosuke Akutagawa

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“In a Grove”

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Ryunosuke Akutagawa

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Conversation in the Cathedral

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Mario Vargas Llosa

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Pedro Camacho

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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

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Radio Panamericana

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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

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“Master Harold”…and the Boys

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Athol Fugard

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