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BKLYN BookMatch Underrepresented Modern Classics

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Half a lifelong romance
Eileen Chang ; translated by Karen S. Kingsbury.
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Every tongue got to confess
Zora Neale Hurston ; foreword by John Edgar Wideman ; edited and with an introduction by Carla Kaplan.
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Songs of Kabir
Kabir ; translation and introduction by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra ; preface by Wendy Doniger.
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I await the devil's coming
Mary MacLane ; introduction by Jessa Crispin.
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Down below
Leonora Carrington ; introduction by Marina Warner.
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A street in Bronzeville
by Gwendolyn Brooks.
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La femme de gilles
Madeleine Bourdouxhe ; Translated and with an afterword by Faith Evans ; Introduction by Elisa Albert.
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Basti
by Intizar Husain ; translated and with an introduction by Frances W. Pritchett.
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