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No longer human

1973
Tells story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas.

The night of the iguana

2009
When a storm traps a group of people in a cheap Mexican resort hotel, they realize that their human needs cannot go unanswered.

Be with

2018
A collection of poems by American poet Forrest Gander in which he reflects on his mother's death, the geological and cultural history of the U.S. border with Mexico, and other topics.
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A streetcar named Desire

Blanche DuBois, a haggard and fragile southern beauty finds her pathetic last grasp at happiness cruelly destroyed in large part by her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski.

Distant star

2004
Alberto Ruiz-Tagle exploits the 1973 coup in order to launch a multimedia enterprise that consists of sky-writing, torture, photography, murder, and verse.
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Fully empowered

1995
Poems by the Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda of Chile.

Black + blues

1995
Contains a collection of poems in which the author explores the themes that are present in the history of his culture, including slavery, destruction, spirituality, and hope.

Middle passages

1993
A collection of poems by twentieth-century Caribbean poet Kamau Brathwaite that addresses the effects of the Middle Passage of slavery on the New World.

Selected poems

2003
Presents a selection of poems by twentieth-century English poet Denise Levertov, composed over the course of six decades.

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