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  Midnight's Children: A Novel

  by Salman Rushdie

  Introduction by Anita Desai
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  Gilgamesh : Translated from the Sin-Leqi-Unninni Version

  The story of Gilgamesh, an ancient epic poem written on clay tablets in a cuneiform alphabet, is as fascinating and moving as it is crucial to our ability to fathom the time and the place in which it was written. Gardner's version restores the poetry of the text and the lyricism that is lost in the earlier, almost scientific renderings. The principal theme of the poem is a familiar one: man's persistent and... (more)
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  Siddhartha

  by Hermann Hesse

  A young Indian mystic, a contemporary of Buddha, sacrifices everything to search for the true meaning of life.