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Book Award Winners
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Nobel Prize for Literature
The Nobel Prize for Literature has been presented since 1901 to writers from around the world. The 2017 winner was Kazuo Ishiguro. Mr. Ishiguro was born in Japan but raised in England. His works include The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go.
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The buried giant
by Kazuo Ishiguro
A tale of lost memories, vengeance and war by the award-winning author of The Remains of the Day follows the experiences of a couple who journeys across a troubled land of mist and rain the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. (general fiction). Simultaneous.
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When we were orphans
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Sent to live in England after the mysterious disappearance of his parents, Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early twentieth-century Shanghai, returns more than twenty years later to a Shanghai torn apart by the Sino-Japanese war to uncover the truth about the tragedy that transformed his childhood. By the author of The Remains of the Day. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
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The remains of the day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
An English butler reflects--sometimes bitterly, sometimes humorously--on his service to a lord between the two world wars and discovers doubts about his master's character and about the ultimate value of his own service to humanity
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Selected poems and four plays of William Butler Yeatsby W. B. YeatsA new and revised edition of a standard selection of the Nobel Prize-winning poet's poems and four of his plays includes a foreword, introduction, glossary, bibliography, index, and comprehensive notes. 1923 Winner |
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It can't happen here by Sinclair LewisA New England newspaper editor fights to destroy the fascist dictatorship established by President Berzelius Windrip in this classic work by the author of Babbit, Arrowsmith, and Main Street that prophesizes the coming of totalitarianism in the United States. 1930 Winner |
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Sanctuary : the corrected textby William FaulknerAn assortment of perverse characters act out this dramatic story of the kidnapping of a Mississippi debutante. 1949 Winner |
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Collected stories by Saul BellowSelected by the author himself, this collection of stories from the Nobel Prize winner and one of America's greatest writers features favorites such as "What Kind of Day Did You Have?" and "Leaving the Yellow House," as well as a previously uncollected piece "By the St. Lawrence." 1976 Winner |
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The other voice : essays on modern poetryby Octavio PazSeven essays by the 1990 Nobel laureate discuss how poetry is the expression of an era and imagine how poetry will be reinvented and transformed to depict future generations. 1990 Winner |
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