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Read work by the 2004 PEN Translation Fund Award winners in PEN America 6.
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Les Combustibles
Author name: Amelie Nothamb
Original language:   French

This novel in dialogue depicts a city in ruins, as an unnamed army patrols the streets. A professor, his graduate student and the student's girlfriend burn books to keep warm, and in the process put education, ideas, power, and sex into the fiery furnace of Notamb's ironic and restrained prose.

Recommended by Stephanie Hammer

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