Sepehr's bookshelf: all en-US Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:33:03 -0800 60 Sepehr's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Aura 56899 118 Carlos Fuentes 9580469717 Sepehr 4 3.87 1962 Aura
author: Carlos Fuentes
name: Sepehr
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1962
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]> 9717 The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places, brilliant and playful reflections, and a variety of styles, to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world’s truly great writers.]]> 314 Milan Kundera 0571224385 Sepehr 5 4.12 1984 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
author: Milan Kundera
name: Sepehr
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1984
rating: 5
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]]> Endgame 12287 Endgame, originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is now considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett's characteristic raw minimalism, it is a pure and devastating distillation of the human essence in the face of approaching death.]]> 60 Samuel Beckett 0571070671 Sepehr 5 3.83 1957 Endgame
author: Samuel Beckett
name: Sepehr
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1957
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]]> Waiting for Godot 17716 109 Samuel Beckett Sepehr 4 3.85 1951 Waiting for Godot
author: Samuel Beckett
name: Sepehr
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1951
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]]> Too Loud a Solitude 87280 TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE is a tender and funny story of Haňťa - a man who has lived in a Czech police state - for 35 years, working as compactor of wastepaper and books. In the process of compacting, he has acquired an education so unwitting he can't quite tell which of his thoughts are his own and which come from his books. He has rescued many from jaws of hydraulic press and now his house is filled to the rooftops. Destroyer of the written word, he is also its perpetrator.

But when a new automatic press makes his job redundant there's only one thing he can do - go down with his ship.

This is an eccentric romp celebrating the indestructability- against censorship, political opression etc - of the written word.

]]> 112 Bohumil Hrabal 0349102627 Sepehr 5 4.17 1976 Too Loud a Solitude
author: Bohumil Hrabal
name: Sepehr
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1976
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]]> Animal Farm 7613
When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.]]> 129 George Orwell Sepehr 4 3.90 1945 Animal Farm
author: George Orwell
name: Sepehr
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1945
rating: 4
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