Shokoofeh's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:36:11 -0700 60 Shokoofeh's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Three Trapped Tigers (Latin American Literature)]]> 223455 487 Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1564783790 Shokoofeh 4 currently-reading 3.96 2008 Three Trapped Tigers (Latin American Literature)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Paris Review Interviews, II: Wisdom from the World's Literary Masters (The Paris Review Interviews, 2)]]> 596060 The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely crafted literature. From William Faulkner's determination that a great novel takes ninety-nine percent talent . . . ninety-nine percent discipline . . . ninety-nine percent work, to Gabriel García Márquez's observation that in the first paragraph, you solve most of the problems with your book, The Paris Review has elicited revelatory and revealing thoughts from our most accomplished novelists, poets, and playwrights. With an introduction by Orhan Pamuk, this volume brings together another rich, varied crop of literary voices, including Toni Morrison, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Graham Greene, James Baldwin, Stephen King, Philip Larkin, Eudora Welty, and more. A colossal literary event, as Gary Shteyngart put it, The Paris Review Interviews, II, is an indispensable treasury of wisdom from the world's literary masters.]]> 528 The Paris Review 0312363141 Shokoofeh 4 literature-text 4.39 2006 The Paris Review Interviews, II: Wisdom from the World's Literary Masters (The Paris Review Interviews, 2)
author: The Paris Review
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average rating: 4.39
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]]> <![CDATA[Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously]]> 96999
The book begins with an in-depth exploration of the meaning of courage and how it is expressed in the everyday life of the individual. Unlike books that focus on heroic acts of courage in exceptional circumstances, the focus here is on developing the inner courage that enables us to lead authentic and fulfilling lives on a day-to-day basis. This is the courage to change when change is needed, the courage to stand up for our own truth, even against the opinions of others, and the courage to embrace the unknown in spite of our fears-in our relationships, in our careers, or in the ongoing journey of understanding who we are and why we are here.

Courage also features a number of meditation techniques specifically designed by Osho to help people deal with their fears.]]> 193 Osho 0312205171 Shokoofeh 5 4.16 1977 Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
author: Osho
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average rating: 4.16
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]]> <![CDATA[Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts]]> 44382 279 Milan Kundera 0060927518 Shokoofeh 0 to-read 4.10 1993 Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
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]]> اشراق درخت گوجه سبز 52968427
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is really an embodiment of Iranian life in constant oscillation, struggle and play between four opposing poles: life and death; politics and religion. The sorrow residing in the depths of our joy is the product of a life between these four poles.]]> 271 Shokoofeh Azar 0648349853 Shokoofeh 5 literary-fiction 3.55 2017 اشراق درخت گوجه سبز
author: Shokoofeh Azar
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average rating: 3.55
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]]> Pe Strada Mântuleasa 8891690 126 Mircea Eliade 9741040318 Shokoofeh 5 3.85 1967 Pe Strada Mântuleasa
author: Mircea Eliade
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]]> <![CDATA[Youth Without Youth (Univ. of Chicago)]]> 314972
At the intersection of the natural and supernatural, myth and history, dream and science, lies Mircea Eliade’s novella. Now in its first paperback edition, the psychological thriller features Dominic Matei, an elderly academic who experiences a cataclysmic event that allows him to live a new life with startling intellectual capacity. Sought by the Nazis for their medical experiments on the potentially life-prolonging power of electric shocks, Matei is helped to flee through Romania, Switzerland, Malta and India. Newly endowed with prodigious powers of memory and comprehension, he finds himself face to face with the glory and terror of the supernatural. In this surreal, philosophy-driven fantasy, Eliade tests the boundaries of literary genre as well as the reader’s imagination.

Suspenseful, witty, and poignant, Youth Without Youthilluminates Eliade’s longing for past loves and new texts, his erotic imagination, and his love of a thrilling mystery. It was adapted for the screen in 2007 as Francis Ford Coppola’s first feature film in over ten years.

“A wonderful blend of realism, surrealism, and fantasy, [Eliade’s novellas] suggest the importance of the mythic and the supernatural to finding meaning in the everyday. Highly recommended.� �Library Journal

�Youth Without Youth reads like a surreal collaboration by Jorge Luis Borges, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Carl Jung. Mircea Eliade left me with the rare sense that I had been entertained by a genius.”—William Allen, author of Starkweather and The Fire in the Birdbath and Other Disturbances]]> 140 Mircea Eliade 0226204154 Shokoofeh 5 3.95 1976 Youth Without Youth (Univ. of Chicago)
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]]> You Start Dying Slowly (Poem) 39657045 Poem 2 Pablo Neruda Shokoofeh 5 4.00 You Start Dying Slowly (Poem)
author: Pablo Neruda
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]]> روز گودال 17409833 198 Shokoofeh Azar Shokoofeh 5 3.33 2009 روز گودال
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]]> اعترافات شکنجه شدگان 23140245 زندان ها و ابراز ندامت های علنی در ایران نوین.

این کتاب شامل دوران رضا شاه، محمدرضا شاه و جمهوری اسلامی است.]]> 369 Ervand Abrahamian 9188297802 Shokoofeh 0 to-read 4.15 1999 اعترافات شکنجه شدگان
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]]> Twenty Two Years to Life 33842117
Fathi wakes up one morning to discover Allah has decided to give every old chicken a second chance. And, as it turns out, this couple still in love since their rainstorm meeting two decades earlier. Together they journey from one gated city to the next -sometimes of their own volition, sometimes with a gun to their back- all the while praying for that one thing...

And when their life takes an even more dramatic turn, Fathi takes the only course of action that is left to take ... Based on a true story, this tale will make you grateful for every little thing you have taken for granted…]]> 120 Mohammed Massoud Morsi 8799904004 Shokoofeh 4
It does not matter to me which part of the world we belong to if we consider ourselves a supporter of peace and equality, but It is matter that we do not close our eyes to the fatal truth of the regime of Israel, Syria, Iran, Myanmar, Iraq, North Korea, Afghanistan or some of the African countries. It's matter to listen to the independent voices are heard from these countries. And this novel is one of those voices. The voice that provokes our conscience. I would recommend reading this short novel if you consider yourself a supporter of peace and equality.]]> 4.45 2017 Twenty Two Years to Life
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Twenty Two Years to life is a simple story of a complicated situation. The story of a couple who want to make a happy and peaceful family in the midst of the almost 70-year war between Palestine and Israel.

It does not matter to me which part of the world we belong to if we consider ourselves a supporter of peace and equality, but It is matter that we do not close our eyes to the fatal truth of the regime of Israel, Syria, Iran, Myanmar, Iraq, North Korea, Afghanistan or some of the African countries. It's matter to listen to the independent voices are heard from these countries. And this novel is one of those voices. The voice that provokes our conscience. I would recommend reading this short novel if you consider yourself a supporter of peace and equality.
]]> <![CDATA[Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)]]> 15507958 Discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me.

They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . .

Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is.

Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living.

A Love Story for this generation and perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?]]> 369 Jojo Moyes Shokoofeh 1 4.24 2012 Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
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average rating: 4.24
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]]> The Sense of an Ending 10746542 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur & George and continued with Nothing to Be Frightened Of and, most recently, Pulse.

This intense novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about - until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he'd left all this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought he'd understood all along, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and emotional depth and sophistication, The Sense of an Ending is a brilliant new chapter in Julian Barnes's oeuvre.]]> 150 Julian Barnes 0224094157 Shokoofeh 3 3.73 2011 The Sense of an Ending
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]]> Death in the Andes 94351
Death in the Andes is both a fascinating detective novel and an insightful political allegory. Mario Vargas Llosa offers a panoramic view of Peruvian society, from the recent social upheaval to the cultural influences in its past.]]> 322 Mario Vargas Llosa 057117549X Shokoofeh 4 3.72 1993 Death in the Andes
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]]> <![CDATA[The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom]]> 6596 The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. The Four Agreements are: Be Impeccable With Your Word, Don't Take Anything Personally, Don't Make Assumptions, Always Do Your Best.]]> 152 Miguel Ruiz 1878424505 Shokoofeh 3 4.20 1997 The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
author: Miguel Ruiz
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]]> Lost & Found 20823038 Millie Bird is a seven-year-old girl who always wears red wellington boots to match her red, curly hair. But one day, Millie’s mum leaves her alone beneath the Ginormous Women’s underwear rack in a department store, and doesn’t come back.

Agatha Pantha is an eighty-two-year-old woman who hasn’t left her home since her husband died. Instead, she fills the silence by yelling at passers-by, watching loud static on TV, and maintaining a strict daily schedule. Until the day Agatha spies a little girl across the street.

Karl the Touch Typist is eighty-seven years old and once typed love letters with his fingers on to his wife’s skin. He sits in a nursing home, knowing that somehow he must find a way for life to begin again. In a moment of clarity and joy, he escapes.

Together, Millie, Agatha and Karl set out to find Millie’s mum. Along the way, they will discover that the young can be wise, that old age is not the same as death, and that breaking the rules once in a while might just be the key to a happy life.]]> 272 Brooke Davis 0733632750 Shokoofeh 2 currently-reading 3.41 2014 Lost & Found
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average rating: 3.41
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]]> Death on Credit 758350 592 Louis-Ferdinand Céline 0714541796 Shokoofeh 4 4.04 1936 Death on Credit
author: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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average rating: 4.04
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great book with so many images that will stick in your mind.
]]> The Master and Margarita 117833 The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.

An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech.

One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version.]]> 372 Mikhail Bulgakov 0679760806 Shokoofeh 3 4.31 1967 The Master and Margarita
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Interesting story but no as much as I expected.
]]> Edward And God 12911773 25 Milan Kundera Shokoofeh 0 to-read 3.77 Edward And God
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]]> <![CDATA[Jacques and His Master: An Homage to Diderot in Three Acts]]> 18219 98 Milan Kundera 0060912227 Shokoofeh 3 3.78 1971 Jacques and His Master: An Homage to Diderot in Three Acts
author: Milan Kundera
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]]> Encounter 7472264
Milan Kundera's new collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty. With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels, Kundera revisits the artists who remain important to him, and whose works help us better understand the world we live in and what it means to be human. An astute reader of fiction, Kundera brings his extraordinary critical gifts to bear on the paintings of Francis Bacon, the music of Leos Janacek, and the films of Federico Fellini, as well as the novels of Philip Roth, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Gabriel García Márquez, among others. He also takes up the challenge of restoring to its rightful place the work of Anatole France and Curzio Malaparte, major writers who have fallen into obscurity.

Milan Kundera's signature themes of memory and forgetting, the experience of exile, and the championing of modernist art are here, along with more personal reflections and stories. Encounter is a work of great humanism. Art is what we possess in the face of evil and the darker side of human nature. Elegant, startlingly original, and provocative, Encounter follows in the footsteps of Kundera's earlier essay collections, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, and The Curtain.]]> 192 Milan Kundera 0061894419 Shokoofeh 0 to-read 3.80 2009 Encounter
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]]> <![CDATA[The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts]]> 28636 176 Milan Kundera 0060841869 Shokoofeh 0 to-read 4.01 2005 The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts
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]]> Farewell Waltz 50605
And so begins a comedy in which, during five madcap days, events unfold with ever-increasing speed. Klima's beautiful, jealous wife; the nurse's equally jealous boyfriend; a fanatical gynecologist; a rich American, at once Don Juan and saint; and an elderly political prisoner who, just before his emigration, is holding a farewell party at the spa, are all drawn into this black comedy, as in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

As usual, Milan Kundera poses serious questions with a blasphemous lightness which makes us understand that the modern world has taken away our right to tragedy.]]> 288 Milan Kundera 0571194710 Shokoofeh 0 to-read 3.92 1972 Farewell Waltz
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]]> Slowness 26097 divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French.

Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic. Underlying this libertine fantasy is a profound meditation on contemporary life: about the secret bond between slowness and memory, about the connection between our era's desire to forget and the way we have given ourselves over to the demon of speed. And about "dancers" possessed by the passion to be seen, for whom life is just merely a perpetual show emptied of every intimacy and every joy.]]> 156 Milan Kundera 0060928417 Shokoofeh 0 to-read 3.72 1995 Slowness
author: Milan Kundera
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]]> The Joke 26114
The present edition provides English-language readers an important further means toward revaluation of The Joke. For reasons he describes in his Author's Note, Milan Kundera devoted much time to creating (with the assistance of his American publisher-editor) a completely revised translation that reflects his original as closely as any translation possibly can: reflects it in its fidelity not only to the words and syntax but also to the characteristic dictions and tonalities of the novel's narrators. The result is nothing less than the restoration of a classic.]]> 371 Milan Kundera Shokoofeh 4 4.05 1967 The Joke
author: Milan Kundera
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average rating: 4.05
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]]> Immortality 28634
'It will make you cleverer, maybe even a better lover. Not many novels can do that.' Nicholas Lezard, GQ]]> 400 Milan Kundera 057114456X Shokoofeh 5 4.16 1990 Immortality
author: Milan Kundera
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]]> <![CDATA[The Book of Laughter and Forgetting]]> 240976 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970's. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than just its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed and experienced.]]> 313 Milan Kundera 0060932147 Shokoofeh 5 4.01 1979 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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]]> Laughable Loves 26101 Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then was subsequently banned. The seven stories are all concerned with love, or rather with the complex erotic games and stratagems employed by women and especially men as they try to come to terms with needs and impulses that can start a terrifying train of events. Sexual attraction is shown as a game that often turns sour, an experience that brings with it painful insights and releases uncertainty, panic, vanity and a constant need for reassurance. Thus a young couple on holiday start a game of pretence that threatens to destroy their relationship, two middle-aged men go in search of girls they don't really want, a young man renews contact with an older woman who feels humiliated by her ageing body, an elderly doctor uses his beautiful wife to increase his attraction and minister to his sexual vanity. In Laughable Loves, Milan Kundera shows himself, once again, as a master of fiction's most graceful illusions and surprises.]]> 287 Milan Kundera 0571206921 Shokoofeh 5 3.91 1970 Laughable Loves
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]]> Identity 28635
With stunning artfulness in expanding and playing variations on the meaningful moment, Milan Kundera has made this situation--and the vague sense of panic it inspires--the very fabric of his novel. Here brevity goes hand in hand with intensity, and a moment of bewilderment marks the start of a labyrinthine journey during which the reader repeatedly crosses the border between the real and the unreal, between what occurs in the world outside, and what the mind creates in its solitude.

Of all contemporary writers, only Kundera can transform such a hidden and disconcerting perception into the material for a novel, one of his finest, most painful, and most enlightening. Which, surprisingly, turns out to be a love story.]]> 176 Milan Kundera 0060930314 Shokoofeh 5 3.73 1997 Identity
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]]> <![CDATA[The Festival of Insignificance]]> 23315843
Casting light on the most serious of problems, and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world, and at the same time completely avoiding realism—that’s The Festival of Insignificance. Readers who know Milan Kundera’s earlier books know that the wish to incorporate an element of the “unserious� in a novel is not at all unexpected of him. In Immortality, Goethe and Hemingway stroll through several chapters together talking and laughing. And in Slowness, Vera, the author’s wife, says to her husband: “you’ve often told me you meant to write a book one day that would have not a single serious word in it…I warn you: watch out. Your enemies are lying in wait.�

Now, far from watching out, Kundera is finally and fully realizing his old aesthetic dream in this novel that we could easily view as a summation of his whole work. A strange sort of summation. Strange sort of epilogue. Strange sort of laughter, inspired by our time, which is comical because it has lost all sense of humor. What more can we say? Nothing. Just read.]]> 115 Milan Kundera 0062356895 Shokoofeh 4 3.43 2013 The Festival of Insignificance
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]]> The Art of the Novel 28637
Kundera's discussion of his own work includes his views on the role of historical events in fiction, the meaning of action, and the creation of character in the post-psychological novel.]]> 170 Milan Kundera 0060093749 Shokoofeh 5 4.00 1986 The Art of the Novel
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]]> Life is Elsewhere 44559 The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed, and (literally) to his deathbed. A ridiculous and touching character, horrifying and totally innocent ("innocence with its bloody smile"!), Jaromil is at the same time a true poet. He's no creep, he's Rimbaud. Rimbaud entrapped by the communist revolution, entrapped in a sombre farce.]]> 432 Milan Kundera 0060997028 Shokoofeh 5 4.00 1973 Life is Elsewhere
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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 Shokoofeh 5 4.12 1984 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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]]> Ragtime 175675 Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century & the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, NY, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. Almost magically, the line between fantasy & historical fact, between real & imaginary characters, disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J.P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud & Emiliano Zapata slip in & out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family & other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler & a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.]]> 320 E.L. Doctorow 0812978188 Shokoofeh 5 3.88 1975 Ragtime
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]]> The Remains of the Day 28921 Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0571225381 here.

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six-day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and England, a past that takes in fascism, two world wars, and an unrealised love between the butler and his housekeeper.]]> 258 Kazuo Ishiguro Shokoofeh 5 4.14 1989 The Remains of the Day
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]]> The Name of the Rose 119073 552 Umberto Eco 0156001314 Shokoofeh 5 4.13 1980 The Name of the Rose
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]]> The Catcher in the Rye 5107 It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school...

Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.

The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.

J.D. Salinger's (1919�2010) classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.]]> 277 J.D. Salinger 0316769177 Shokoofeh 5 3.81 1951 The Catcher in the Rye
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]]> <![CDATA[Tales from the Thousand and One Nights]]> 774368 Tales from the Thousand and One Nights - sometimes known as the Arabian Nights - is translated with an introduction by N.J. Dawood in Penguin Classics.

The tales told by Scheherazade over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahryar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. From the epic adventures of 'Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp' to the farcical 'Young Woman and her Five Lovers' and the social criticism of 'The Tale of the Hunchback', the stories depict a fabulous world of all-powerful sorcerers, jinns imprisoned in bottles and enchanting princesses. But despite their imaginative extravagance, the Tales are also anchored to everyday life by their bawdiness and realism, providing a full and intimate record of medieval Eastern world.

In this selection, N.J. Dawood presents the reader with an unexpurgated translation of the finest and best-known tales, preserving their spirited narrative style in lively modern English. In his introduction, he discusses their origins in the East and their differences from Classical Arabic literature, and examines English translations of the tales since the eighteenth century.

If you enjoyed Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, you might like Snorri Sturlson's The Prose Edda, also available in Penguin Classics.]]> 416 Anonymous 0140442898 Shokoofeh 5 4.01 1775 Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
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With more than 2000 years old of Persian stories combined with Indian and Arabic tales, this book is unique. Fantasy and true stories mixed together to make it incomparable with any other ancient story. Iranian researcher and writer Bahram Beyzaee in his important book "Where is Hezar - Afsan", shows the true Persian historical core of this tale. If you recognize yourself as a literary writer and analyser, this is a book that you need read and keep in your bookshelf.
]]> خاطرات، رویاها، اندیشه ها 12869919 Memories, Dreams, Reflections includes Jung's VII Sermones ad Mortuos. It is a fully corrected edition.From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> C.G. Jung Shokoofeh 5 4.00 1962 خاطرات، رویاها، اندیشه ها
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همه آثار یونگ برای آنها که به دنبال پاسخگویی به سوال های مهمی در زندگی هستند، ارزشمند هستند. سوال هایی مانند اینکه آیا خواب های ما بخشی از زندگی واقعی ما هستند و آیا آنها می توانند زندگی روزمره ما را هدایت کنند؟ سوال هایی مانند اینکه آیا ما زندگی های دیگری در این کره زمین داشته ایم؟ و از همه مهم تر اینکه: من کیستم؟ من در چنبره زندگی، اسطوره، واقعیت، رویا و آرزو، کیستم؟
]]> Mircea Eliade 4638261 318 Ioan Petru Culianu Shokoofeh 5 4.36 1978 Mircea Eliade
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]]> Siddhartha 52036 152 Hermann Hesse Shokoofeh 5 4.07 1922 Siddhartha
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]]> <![CDATA[Pranic Crystal Healing (Latest Edition)]]> 494413
How To Use Crystals As Protective Amulets From Psychic Attacks, As Well As How To Energize Rings, Pendants And Jewelry To Enhance Healing, Prosperity And Protection For Yourself, Loved Ones And Business Associates

The Pranic Crystal Healing book teaches the properties of crystals, increasing your healing power with the use of crystals, cleansing, charging and programming of crystals, techniques to relieve and treat headaches, fever, menstrual discomfort, arthritis, hypertension, multiple sclerosis, and more

Learning which crystals and stones are appropriate for which purposes

Using power rings, the secret of magicians and master healers, for power, healing and prosperity

Using the color pranic energies of color crystals for facilitating rapid healing.

Learning to use crystals for anchoring specific energies

Using special crystalsto absorb and divert psychic attack




]]> 166 Master Choa Kok Sui 9719110635 Shokoofeh 0 to-read 4.64 1998 Pranic Crystal Healing (Latest Edition)
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]]> عقاید یک دلقک 326272 353 Heinrich Böll Shokoofeh 5 3.79 1963 عقاید یک دلقک
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یکی از بهترین رمان هایی که در سراسر زندگی ام خوانده ام. تنهایی و اندیشه های تنهایی مرد جوانی که مننقد سیستم سیاسی کمونیستی خاکم بر جامعه آلمان است همراه با انتقاد به نحوه تربیت خانواده اشرافی اش که سعی می کردند او را با خوی و خصلت های ناپسند خود عجین کنند. این رمان یک الگوی داستان نویسی عالی است.
]]> <![CDATA[How to Begin Studying English Literature]]> 1676804 Nicholas Marsh 0333968719 Shokoofeh 4 3.83 1389 How to Begin Studying English Literature
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]]> The Lover 275 117 Marguerite Duras Shokoofeh 5
I read this book with Persian translated. I loved the book and actually I love all of Margrt Dorass novels.]]> 3.79 1984 The Lover
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I read this book with Persian translated. I loved the book and actually I love all of Margrt Dorass novels.
]]> <![CDATA[The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World]]> 139373 444 Roz Hopkins 1741046297 Shokoofeh 5 4.27 2004 The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World
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]]> خنده در تاریکی 670529
خنده در تاریکی که در دنیای سینمایی برلین در دهه‌� ۱۹۳۰ می‌گذر� رمانی ظریف و طنزآمیز است درباره‌� عشق و فریب که بدبینی و شکاکیت ناباکوف با زبان دو پهلو و سنجیده‌ا� از آن اثری برجسته می‌ساز�.‏]]> 247 Vladimir Nabokov 964588179X Shokoofeh 4 3.53 1932 خنده در تاریکی
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]]> کشتن مرغ مینا 18075570 414 Harper Lee Shokoofeh 4 literary-fiction 4.25 1960 کشتن مرغ مینا
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]]> <![CDATA[خانه‌ا� با شیروانی قرمز: گفت‌وگ� با عباس کیارستمی و آیدین آغداشلو]]> 33231405 101 مرجان صائبی 6004051098 Shokoofeh 3 literature-text 3.58 2016 خانه‌ای با شیروانی قرمز: گفت‌وگو با عباس کیارستمی و آیدین آغداشلو
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]]> Like Water for Chocolate 6952
The number one bestseller in Mexico and America for almost two years, and subsequently a bestseller around the world, Like Water For Chocolate is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with moments of magic, graphic earthiness, bittersweet wit - and recipes.

A sumptuous feast of a novel, it relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest daughter of the house, has been forbidden to marry, condemned by Mexican tradition to look after her mother until she dies. But Tita falls in love with Pedro, and he is seduced by the magical food she cooks. In desperation, Pedro marries her sister Rosaura so that he can stay close to her, so that Tita and Pedro are forced to circle each other in unconsummated passion. Only a freakish chain of tragedies, bad luck and fate finally reunite them against all the odds.]]> 222 Laura Esquivel Shokoofeh 3 literary-fiction 3.96 1989 Like Water for Chocolate
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]]> After Dark 17803 In After Dark—a gripping novel of late night encounters—Murakami’s trademark humor and psychological insight are distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery.

Nineteen-year-old Mari is waiting out the night in an anonymous Denny’s when she meets a young man who insists he knows her older sister, thus setting her on an odyssey through the sleeping city. In the space of a single night, the lives of a diverse cast of Tokyo residents—models, prostitutes, mobsters, and musicians—collide in a world suspended between fantasy and reality. Utterly enchanting and infused with surrealism, After Dark is a thrilling account of the magical hours separating midnight from dawn.]]> 191 Haruki Murakami 0307265838 Shokoofeh 3 literary-fiction 3.75 2004 After Dark
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]]> Ignorance 78728 A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier when they had chosen to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence "their memories no longer match." We always believe that our memories coincide with those of the person we loved, that we experienced the same thing. But this is just an illusion. Then again, what can we expect of our weak memory? It records only "an insignificant, minuscule particle" of the past, "and no one knows why it's this bit and not any other bit." We live our lives sunk in a vast forgetting, a fact we refuse to recognize. Only those who return after twenty years, like Odysseus returning to his native Ithaca, can be dazzled and astounded by observing the goddess of ignorance firsthand.

Milan Kundera is the only author today who can take such dizzying concepts as absence, memory, forgetting, and ignorance, and transform them into material for a novel, masterfully orchestrating them into a polyphonic and moving work.

Author Biography: The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in Brno and has lived in France, his second homeland, for more than twenty years.

He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, The Farewell Party, The Books of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short story collection Laughable Loves, all originally written in Czech.

Like Slowness, his two earlier nonfiction works, The Art ofthe Novel and Testaments Betrayed, were originally written in French.

]]> 195 Milan Kundera 0060002107 Shokoofeh 4 literary-fiction 3.85 2000 Ignorance
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]]> Love in the Time of Cholera 9712 348 Gabriel García Márquez 140003468X Shokoofeh 5 3.92 1985 Love in the Time of Cholera
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]]> <![CDATA[Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)]]> 393449 0 Harold Bloom 155546338X Shokoofeh 5 4.49 Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
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]]> بت‌ها� ذهنی و خاطره‌� ازلی 1116429 249 Dariush Shayegan Shokoofeh 0 to-read 3.54 1976 بت‌های ذهنی و خاطره‌ی ازلی
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]]> Sex Matters 97004
Sex Matters begins by deconstructing the layers of sexual repression that the condemnation of sex has inflicted on human. Throughout Sex Matters - in response to questions about everything from jealousy to premature ejaculation, the role of intimacy and the differences between men and women - Osho proposes a vision that embraces sex as a fundamental gift from nature. We learn how orgasm offers a glimpse of timelessness, thoughtlessness, and pure awareness -- biology's way of pointing toward the consciousness that helps us to understand ourselves.

Finally, we are presented with a clear choice: a repressed sexuality that leads to pornography, perversion, and a stunted humanity or a playful, respectful, and relaxed innocence that supports us in becoming fulfilled and whole, as nature intended.]]> 336 Osho 0312316305 Shokoofeh 5 4.11 1969 Sex Matters
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]]> <![CDATA[Meditations for Soul Realization]]> 827234 This book contains Ancient Meditations, kept secret for centuries, are now revealed and taught to the public
Experience "Coming Home and Being One with All"
Experience the unique state of Total Peace and Expansion of Consciousness and Awareness within minutes of practicing the meditations taught in this book
These techniques allow you to accelerate the Union of your incarnated soul (often described as the personality or lower self) with your Higher Soul (Higher Self). This phenomenon is known as "Soul Realization]]> 133 Master Choa Kok Sui 971911066X Shokoofeh 0 4.61 2000 Meditations for Soul Realization
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]]> روح و زندگی 3417834 At the beginning of 1931, shortly after his divorce & immediately following his postulation of the neutrino, Pauli had a severe breakdown. He consulted the psychiatric psychotherapist C.G. Jung who, like Pauli, lived near Zürich. Jung immediately began interpreting Pauli's deeply archetypal dreams, & Pauli became one of the depth psychologist’s best students. Soon, he began to criticize the epistemology of Jung’s theory scientifically. This contributed to a certain clarification of the latter’s thoughts, especially about the concept of synchronicity. A great deal of these discussions is documented in the Pauli/Jung letters, today published as Atom & Archetype. Jung's elaborate analysis of more than 400 of Pauli's dreams is documented in Psychology & Alchemy.]]> 432 C.G. Jung Shokoofeh 0 to-read 2.76 1955 روح و زندگی
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]]> <![CDATA[Summary & Study Guide Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez]]> 9631104 38 BookRags Shokoofeh 5 4.16 2010 Summary & Study Guide Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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]]> <![CDATA[Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Chronicle Of A Death Foretold: A Reader's Companion]]> 66817 159 Santwana Haldar 817851009X Shokoofeh 5 4.13 2003 Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Chronicle Of A Death Foretold: A Reader's Companion
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]]> <![CDATA[Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide]]> 9714 188 Thomas Fahy 0826414753 Shokoofeh 5 4.33 2003 Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide
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]]> One Hundred Years of Solitude 320 417 Gabriel García Márquez Shokoofeh 5 4.10 1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude
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]]> <![CDATA[Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez]]> 4391
Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez starts with the years of his early phenomenal success and continues through his most recent, turn-of-the-century exchanges. He speaks of his impoverished childhood, his life as an indifferent student, his apprenticeship as a journalist, the inspiration that led to the writing of his most renowned novel, the difficulties brought by fame, and his leftist opinions. Works such as The Autumn of the Patriarch , Love in the Time of Cholera , The General in His Labyrinth , and News of a Kidnapping are discussed in detail.

When interviewed by Hispanic journalists, García Márquez chats spontaneously and frankly about all sorts of topics, including himself. Those conversations, translated into English for the first time, offer a fascinating glimpse of the Colombian genius at his most down-to-earth, informal, and relaxed. Taken together with seminal pieces from the Atlantic Monthly , the New York Times Book Review , and other English-language periodicals, Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez offers a nuanced, multifaceted view of one of contemporary literature's greatest masters.]]> 200 Gene H. Bell-Villada 1578067847 Shokoofeh 5 4.00 2005 Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez
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]]> Huliganii 6979071 432 Mircea Eliade Shokoofeh 5 4.24 1935 Huliganii
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]]> <![CDATA[A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity]]> 144900 ]]> 580 Mircea Eliade 0226204030 Shokoofeh 5 4.52 1978 A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity
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]]> Images and Symbols 28023 192 Mircea Eliade 069102068X Shokoofeh 5 4.20 1952 Images and Symbols
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]]> <![CDATA[Myth and Reality (Religious Traditions of the World)]]> 28029 204 Mircea Eliade 1577660099 Shokoofeh 5 4.12 1962 Myth and Reality (Religious Traditions of the World)
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]]> <![CDATA[A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries]]> 778581
Le tome I nous conduit des premiers comportements magico-religieux des hommes préhistoriques à l'épanouissement du culte de Dionysos, à travers les religions mésopotamiennes et de l'Egypte ancienne, la religion d'Israël, la religion des Indos-Européens, les religions de l'Inde avant Bouddha, la religion grecque et la religion iranienne.]]> 508 Mircea Eliade 0002153114 Shokoofeh 5 4.45 1975 A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries
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]]> <![CDATA[Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy]]> 28022 648 Mircea Eliade Shokoofeh 5 4.22 1951 Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
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]]> Mademoiselle Christina 1010798
Egor trouvera-t-il la force de lutter contre l’enchanteresse Christina ? La jeune Simina, possédée par le mal, semble en douter.

Mademoiselle Christina nous vient tout droit du folklore roumain. Une histoire de vampires dans un monde en proie au blasphème; pour l'exorciser, un jeune homme tue deux fois le vampire en lui transperçant le cœur. Le dialogue entre le monde des morts et celui des vivants n'est pas éphémère. Les deux camps se livrent un siège sans merci, à ceci près que les belligérants se disputent non des fortunes mais des âmes, et que leurs armes ne sont pas des armes classiques, mais des rituels magiques.]]> 204 Mircea Eliade 2851978047 Shokoofeh 5 4.15 1936 Mademoiselle Christina
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]]> <![CDATA[The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History]]> 28025 195 Mircea Eliade 0691017778 Shokoofeh 5 4.28 1949 The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion]]> 28024 The Sacred and the Profane, famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times in terms of space, time, nature, and the cosmos. In doing so he shows how the total human experience of the religious man compares with that of the nonreligious.
This book of great originality and scholarship serves as an excellent introduction to the history of religion, but its perspective also encompasses philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and psychology. It will appeal to anyone seeking to discover the potential dimensions of human existence.]]> 256 Mircea Eliade Shokoofeh 5 4.13 1957 The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
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]]> Maitreyi 817199 Set in 1930s Calcutta, this is a roman á clef of remarkable intimacy. Originally published in Romanian in 1933, this semiautobiographical novel by the world renowned scholar Mircea Eliade details the passionate awakenings of Alain, an ambitious young French engineer flush with colonial pride and prejudice and full of a European fascination with the mysterious subcontinent.

Offered the hospitality of a senior Indian colleague, Alain grasps at the chance to discover the authentic India firsthand. He soon finds himself enchanted by his host's daughter, the lovely and inscrutable Maitreyi, a precocious young poet and former student of Tagore. What follows is a charming, tentative flirtation that soon, against all the proprieties and precepts of Indian society, blossoms into a love affair both impossible and ultimately tragic. This erotic passion plays itself out in Alain's thoughts long after its bitter conclusion. In hindsight he sets down the story, quoting from the diaries of his disordered days, and trying to make sense of the sad affair.

A vibrantly poetic love story, Bengal Nights is also a cruel account of the wreckage left in the wake of a young man's self discovery. At once horrifying and deeply moving, Eliade's story repeats the patterns of European engagement with India even as it exposes and condemns them. Invaluable for the insight it offers into Eliade's life and thought, it is a work of great intellectual and emotional power.

"Bengal Nights is forceful and harshly poignant, written with a great love of India informed by clear-eyed understanding. But do not open it if you prefer to remain unmoved by your reading matter.It is enough to make stones weep." � Literary Review

Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) was the Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor in the Divinity School and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Many of his scholarly works, as well as his two-volume autobiography and four-volume journal, are published by the University of Chicago Press. Translated into French in 1950, Bengal Nights was an immediate critical success. The film, Les Nuits Bengali, appeared in 1987.

]]> 200 Mircea Eliade 9735004100 Shokoofeh 5 3.81 1933 Maitreyi
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]]> Carl Gustav Jung 4708508 ʰé
Jung et l'analyse
La voie de Jung
Jung et la divinité
L'univers psychophysique
Aujourd'hui et demain]]> 520 Michel Cavenage 285197050X Shokoofeh 5 4.25 1984 Carl Gustav Jung
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]]> <![CDATA[Carl Gustav Jung (Key Figures in Counselling and Psychotherapy series)]]> 155850 176 Ann Casement 0761962387 Shokoofeh 5 3.67 2001 Carl Gustav Jung (Key Figures in Counselling and Psychotherapy series)
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]]> Carl Gustav Jung: A Biography 71256 640 Frank McLynn 0312194455 Shokoofeh 5 4.20 1996 Carl Gustav Jung: A Biography
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]]> <![CDATA[Being in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear]]> 1441467
In this thoughtful, provocative work, Osho—one of the most revolutionary thinkers of our time—challenges us to question what we think we know about love and opens us to the possibility of a love that is natural, fulfilling, and free of possessiveness and jealousy.

With his characteristic wit, humor, and understanding, Osho dares us to resist the unhealthy relationship patterns we’ve learned from those around us, and to rediscover the meaning of love for ourselves. “By the time you are ready to explore the world of love, you are filled with so much rubbish about love that there is not much hope for you to be able to find the authentic and discard the false.�

By answering the questions that so many lovers face, Osho shares new ways to love that will forever change how you relate to others, including how to:

� Love without clinging
� Let go of expectations, rules, and demands
� Free yourself from the fear of being alone
� Be fully present in your relationships
� Keep your love fresh and alive
� Become a life partner with whom someone could continue to grow and change
� Surrender your ego so you can surrender to love

Being in Love will inspire you to welcome love into your life anew and experience the joy of being truly alive by sharing it.]]> 256 Osho 0307337901 Shokoofeh 5 4.04 2008 Being in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear
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]]> <![CDATA[Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy]]> 97014 � How emotions like guilt, insecurity, and fear are used to manipulate us
� How to break out of unhealthy responses to strong emotions
� How to transform destructive emotions into creative energy
� The role of society and culture on our individual emotional styles Osho’s unique insight into the human mind and heart goes far beyond conventional psychology. He teaches us to experience our emotions fully and to deal with them creatively in order to achieve a richer, fuller life.]]> 293 Osho 030733788X Shokoofeh 5 4.06 2007 Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy
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]]> <![CDATA[The Book of Understanding: Creating Your Own Path to Freedom]]> 97003 The Book of Understanding, Osho, one of the most provocative thinkers of our time, challenges us to understand our world and ourselves in a new and radical way. The first step toward understanding, he says, is to question and doubt all that we have been taught to believe.

All our lives we’ve been handed so-called truths by countless others—beliefs we learned to accept without reason. It is only in questioning our beliefs, assumptions, and prejudices that we can begin to uncover our own unique voice and heal the divisions within us and without.

Once we discover our authentic self, we can embrace all aspects of the human experience—from the earthy, pleasure-loving qualities that characterize Zorba the Greek to the watchful, silent qualities of Gautam the Buddha. We can become whole and live with integrity, able to respond with creativity and compassion to the religious, political, and cultural divides that currently plague our society.

In this groundbreaking work, Osho identifies, loosens, and ultimately helps to untie the knots of fear and misunderstanding that restrict us—leaving us free to discover and create our own individual path to freedom.



Doubt—because doubt is not a sin, it is the sign of your intelligence.

You are not responsible to any nation, to any church, to any God. You are responsible only for one thing, and that is self-knowledge. And the miracle is, if you can fulfill this responsibility, you will be able to fulfill many other responsibilities without any effort. The moment you come to your own being, a revolution happens in your vision. Your whole outlook about life goes through a radical change. You start feeling new responsibilities—not as something to be done, not as duty to be fulfilled, but as a joy to do. —O᰿


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 288 Osho 0307337871 Shokoofeh 5 4.23 2014 The Book of Understanding: Creating Your Own Path to Freedom
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]]> Tao: The Pathless Path 97021 192 Osho 1580632254 Shokoofeh 5 4.28 1978 Tao: The Pathless Path
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]]> The Book of Woman 6185643 226 Osho 0143028618 Shokoofeh 5 3.86 1976 The Book of Woman
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]]> <![CDATA[Maturity: The Responsibility of Being Oneself]]> 180171
In a culture infatuated with youth and determined to avoid old age at all costs, this book dares to raise a question that has been all but forgotten in the age of Viagra and cosmetic surgery. What benefits might lie in accepting the aging process as natural, rather than trying to hold on to youth and its pleasures all the way to the grave?

Osho takes us back to the roots of what it means to grow up rather than just to grow old. Both in our relationships with others, and in the fulfillment of our own individual destinies, he reminds us of the pleasures that only true maturity can bring. He outlines the ten major growth cycles in human life, from the self-centered universe of the preschooler to the flowering of wisdom and compassion in old age.

Osho’s sly sense of humor runs like a red thread through the book, along with a profound compassion and understanding of how easy it is to be distracted from the deeper meaning and purpose of our lives―which is, ultimately, to flower into our own individual uniqueness and maturity with an attitude of celebration and joy.

Osho challenges readers to examine and break free of the conditioned belief systems and prejudices that limit their capacity to enjoy life in all its richness. He has been described by the Sunday Times of London as one of the �1000 Makers of the 20th Century� and by Sunday Mid-Day (India) as one of the ten people―along with Gandhi, Nehru, and Buddha―who have changed the destiny of India. Since his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to expand, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world.]]> 208 Osho 0312205619 Shokoofeh 5 4.16 1999 Maturity: The Responsibility of Being Oneself
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]]> <![CDATA[Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic]]> 97012
Ten years have past since, in the words of his attending physician, Osho prepared for his departure from the body that had served him for fifty-nine years "as calmly as though he were packing for a weekend in the country." This volume is recognition that the time has come to provide a historical and biographical context for understanding Osho and his work. Who was this man, known as the Sex Guru, the "self-appointed bhagwan" (Rajneesh), the Rolls-Royce Guru, the Rich Man's Guru, and simply the Master?

Drawn from nearly five thousand hours of Osho's recorded talks, this is the story of his youth and education, his life as a professor of philosophy and years of travel teaching the importance of meditation, and the true legacy he sought to leave behind: a religionless religion centered on individual awareness and responsibility and the teaching of "Zorba the Buddha," a celebration of the whole human being.]]> 336 Osho 0312280718 Shokoofeh 5 4.30 2000 Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic
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]]> <![CDATA[From Sex to Superconsciousness]]> 343724 230 Osho 0880500646 Shokoofeh 5 4.22 1969 From Sex to Superconsciousness
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]]> <![CDATA[Joy: The Happiness That Comes from Within (Insights for a New Way of Living)]]> 97013
The Insight for a New Way of Living series aims to shine light on beliefs and attitudes that prevent individuals from being their true selves. The text is an artful mix of compassion and humor, and readers are encouraged to confront what they would most like to avoid, which in turns provides the key to true insight and power.

Joy is a wondrous investigation into the source and importance of joyfulness in our lives.]]> 174 Osho 0312320744 Shokoofeh 5 4.24 2004 Joy: The Happiness That Comes from Within (Insights for a New Way of Living)
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]]> Meditation 97009 The first upgrade to meditation since Buddha's time

In this essential meditation handbook for the 21st century, Osho turns the traditional notion of meditation practice on its head. Meditation: The First and Last Freedom shows that meditation is not a spiritual discipline separate from everyday life in the real world. In essence, it is simply the art of being aware of what is going on inside and around us. As we acquire the knack, meditation can be our companion wherever we are-at work, at play, at rest.

Meditation contains practical, step-by-step guides to a wide variety of meditation techniques selected by and/or created by Osho, including the unique OSHO Active Meditations which deal with the special tensions of contemporary life. Recognizing that it's almost impossible for most people these days just to stop and sit silently, these meditations - including the Osho Dynamic Meditation and Osho Kundalini Meditation - begin with one or more stages of vigorous physical activity. This brings our physical and mental energies to a peak, so that the following silence is easy -- leaving us alert, refreshed, and newly energized.

Newly revised and resized into a handy portable format, Meditation is the perfect text to begin or continue exploring the joys of meditation.]]> 320 Osho 0312336632 Shokoofeh 5 4.15 2004 Meditation
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]]> <![CDATA[Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other]]> 97001
This quality has very little to do with the physical, though sex is certainly one possible door. Far more important is a willingness to expose our deepest feelings and vulnerabilities, with the trust that the other person will treat them with care. Ultimately, the willingness to take the risk of intimacy has to be grounded in an inner strength that knows that even if the other remains closed, even if that trust is betrayed, we will not suffer any permanent damage.

In this gentle and compassionate guide, Osho takes his readers step-by-step through what makes people afraid of intimacy, how to encounter those fears and go beyond them, and what they can do to nourish themselves and their relationships to support more openness and trust.

OSHO challenges readers to examine and break free of the conditioned belief systems and prejudices that limit their capacity to life in all its richness. He has been described by the Sunday Times of London as one of the "1000 Makers of the 20th Century" and by Sunday Mid-Day (India) as one of the ten people-along with Gandhi, Nehru, and Buddha-who have changed the destiny of India. More than a decade after his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to expand, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world.]]> 172 Osho 0312275668 Shokoofeh 5 4.19 2001 Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other
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]]> <![CDATA[Intuition: Knowing Beyond Logic]]> 97006 Intuition deals with the difference between the intellectual, logical mind and the more encompassing realm of spirit. Logic is how the mind knows reality, intuition is how the spirit experiences reality. Osho's discussion of these matters is wonderfully lucid, occasionally funny, and thoroughly engrossing.

All people have a natural capacity for intuition, but often social conditioning and formal education work against it. People are taught to ignore their instincts rather than to understand and use them as a foundation for individual growth and development-and in the process they undermine the very roots of the innate wisdom that is meant to flower into intuition.

In this volume, Osho pinpoints exactly what intuition is and gives guidelines for how to identify its functioning in others and ourselves. You will learn to distinguish between genuine intuitive insight and the "wishful thinking" that can often lead to mistaken choices and unwanted consequences. Includes many specific exercises and meditations designed to nourish and support each individual's natural intuitive gifts.

OSHO challenges readers to examine and break free of the conditioned belief systems and prejudices that limit their capacity to experience life in all its richness. He has been described by the Sunday Times of London as one of the "1000 Makers of the 20th Century" and by Sunday Mid-Day (India) as one of the ten people-along with Gandhi, Nehru, and Buddha-who have changed the destiny of India. More than a decade after his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to expand, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world.


Intuition deals with the difference between the intellectual, logical mind and the more encompassing realm of spirit. Logic is how the mind knows reality, intuition is how the spirit experiences reality. Osho's discussion of these matters is wonderfully lucid, occasionally funny, and thoroughly engrossing. All people have a natural capacity for intuition, but often social conditioning and formal education work against it. People are taught to ignore their instincts rather than to understand and use them as a foundation for individual growth and development-and in the process they undermine the very roots of the innate wisdom that is meant to flower into intuition. In this volume, Osho pinpoints exactly what intuition is and gives guidelines for how to identify its functioning in others and ourselves. You will learn to distinguish between genuine intuitive insight and the "wishful thinking" that can often lead to mistaken choices and unwanted consequences. Includes many specific exercises and meditations designed to nourish and support each individual's natural intuitive gifts.]]> 208 Osho 0312275676 Shokoofeh 5 4.02 2001 Intuition: Knowing Beyond Logic
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]]> <![CDATA[Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance (Insights for a New Way of Living)]]> 97010
According to great masters like Lao Tzu or Buddha, most of us move through our lives like sleepwalkers. Never really present in what we are doing, never fully alert to our environment, and not even aware of what motivates us to do and say the things we do.

At the same time, all of us have experienced moments of awareness-or awakening, to use another-in extraordinary circumstances. On the road, in a sudden and unexpected accident, time seems to stop and one is suddenly aware of every movement, every sound, every thought. Or in moments that touch us deeply-welcoming a new baby into the world for the first time, or being with someone at the moment of death.

Awareness, says Osho, is the key to being self-directed, centered, and free in every aspect of our lives. In this book, Osho teaches how to live life more attentively, mindfully, and meditatively, with love, caring and consciousness.

OSHO challenges readers to examine and break free of the conditioned belief systems and prejudices that limit their capacity to life in all its richness. He has been described by the Sunday Times of London as one of the "1000 Makers of the 20th Century" and by Sunday Mid-Day (India) as one of the ten people-along with Gandhi, Nehru, and Buddha-who have changed the destiny of India. More than a decade after his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to expand, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world.]]> 194 Osho 0312275633 Shokoofeh 5 4.33 2001 Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance (Insights for a New Way of Living)
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]]> <![CDATA[Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself]]> 97015
In Freedom , Osho outlines three stages of freedom. The first is “freedom from,� which is a freedom that comes from breaking out of what he calls the “psychological slavery� imposed by outside forces such as parents, society, or religion. The next stage is “freedom for,� a positive freedom that comes from embracing and creating something―a fulfilling relationship, for example, or an artistic or humanitarian vision. And lastly there is “just freedom,� the highest and ultimate freedom. This last freedom is more than being for or against something; it is the freedom of simply being oneself and responding truthfully to each moment.

This book helps readers to identify the obstacles to their freedom, both circumstantial and self-imposed, to choose their battles wisely, and to find the courage to be true to themselves.

Osho challenges readers to examine and break free of the conditioned belief systems and prejudices that limit their capacity to enjoy life in all its richness. He has been described by the Sunday Times of London as one of the �1000 Makers of the 20th Century� and by Sunday Mid-Day (India) as one of the ten people―along with Gandhi, Nehru, and Buddha―who have changed the destiny of India. Since his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to expand, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world.]]> 186 Osho 0312320701 Shokoofeh 5 4.08 2004 Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
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]]> <![CDATA[Creativity (Osho Insights for a New Way of Living)]]> 97007
But nowadays, the situation has dramatically changed. In today's world, the ability to respond creatively to new challenges is demanded of everybody, from corporate CEOs to "soccer moms." Those whose toolbox for dealing with life includes only what they have learned in the past from their parents and their teachers are at a distinct disadvantage both in their relationships and in their careers. Making a switch from imitative and rule-bound behavior to creative innovation and flexibility requires a profound change in our attitudes about ourselves and our capabilities.

Creativity is a handbook for those who understand the need to bring more creativity, playfulness, and flexibility to their lives. It's a manual for thinking "outside the box"-and learning to live there as well.]]> 194 Osho 0312205198 Shokoofeh 5 4.19 1999 Creativity (Osho Insights for a New Way of Living)
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]]> Osho Zen Tarot 4289305 176 Osho 0312117337 Shokoofeh 5 4.42 1995 Osho Zen Tarot
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]]> <![CDATA[The Book of Secrets (Complete)]]> 96998 1152 Osho 0312180586 Shokoofeh 5 4.15 1974 The Book of Secrets (Complete)
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]]> <![CDATA[Love, Freedom, Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships]]> 97008
Love can only happen through freedom and in conjunction with a deep respect for ourselves and the other. Is it possible to be alone and not lonely? Where are the boundaries that define "lust" versus "love"...and can lust ever grow into love? In Love, Freedom, Aloneness you will find unique, radical, and intelligent perspectives on these and other essential questions. In our post-ideological world, where old moralities are out of date, we have a golden opportunity to redefine and revitalize the very foundations of our lives. We have the chance to start afresh with ourselves, our relationships to others, and to find fulfillment and success for the individual and for society as a whole.]]> 244 Osho 0312291620 Shokoofeh 5 4.14 2001 Love, Freedom, Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships
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]]> The Story of Art 222078 KEY TOPICS: Focuses on the most significant works of Western art. Considers each work of art in its context: shows how art reflects the historical setting, the artist's intentions, and the values of that civilization, and how each artist built upon, or sometimes reacted against, the style of his/her predecessors. Contains chronological charts, maps, and notes on art books. Illustrates all works that are discussed. Features a new design with each illustration appearing on the same spread as the narrative that discusses it.]]> 688 E.H. Gombrich 071483355X Shokoofeh 3 to-read 3.96 1950 The Story of Art
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]]> <![CDATA[The Letters of Vincent van Gogh]]> 395233 The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a human face on one of the most haunting figures in modern Western culture. In this Penguin Classics edition, the letters are selected and edited by Ronald de Leeuw, and translated by Arnold Pomerans in Penguin Classics.

Few artists' letters are as self-revelatory as Vincent van Gogh's, and this selection, spanning his artistic career, sheds light on every facet of the life and work of this complex and tortured man. Engaging candidly and movingly with his religious struggles, his ill-fated search for love, his attacks of mental illness and his relation with his brother Theo, the letters contradict the popular myth of van Gogh as an anti-social madman and a martyr to art, showing instead a man of great emotional and spiritual depths. Above all, they stand as an intense personal narrative of artistic development and a unique account of the process of creation.

The letters are linked by explanatory biographical passages, revealing van Gogh's inner journey as well as the outer facts of his life. This edition also includes the drawings that originally illustrated the letters.

Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) was born in Holland. In 1885 he painted his first masterpiece, The Potato Eaters, a haunting scene of domestic poverty. A year later he began studying in Paris, where he met Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Seurat, who became very important influences on his work. In 1888 he left Paris for the Provencal landscape at Arles, the subject of many of his best works, including Sunflowers.

If you enjoyed The Letters of Vincent van Gogh, you might also like 100 Artists Manifestos, available in Penguin Modern Classics.

'If there was ever any doubt that Van Gogh's letters belong beside those great classics of artistic self-revelation, Cellini's autobiography and Delacroix's journal, this excellent new edition dispels it'
The Times]]> 528 Vincent van Gogh 0140446745 Shokoofeh 0 to-read 4.09 1914 The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
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]]> روانشناسی و شرق 11536998 303 یونگ، کارل گوستاو Shokoofeh 0 to-read 3.20 2003 روانشناسی و شرق
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]]> <![CDATA[Practical Psychic Self Defense for Home & Office]]> 827233 125 Master Choa Kok Sui 9719110651 Shokoofeh 0 4.62 1999 Practical Psychic Self Defense for Home & Office
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]]> Superbrain Yoga 771442 Choa Kok Sui 9710376063 Shokoofeh 0 4.46 2005 Superbrain Yoga
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]]> <![CDATA[The Origin Of Modern Pranic Healing And Arhatic Yoga]]> 494409

In the interest of practicing a high degree of humility (for many years His books did not even present His photograph), and due to His personal practice of silence, has never before discussed personal matters pertaining to His Life.


Now for the first time, Master Choa publicly tells the story of His Spiritual Unfolding.


In a clear informative way and relating vivid fascinating anecdotes,


Master Choa relates His autobiography from childhood to the global spread of Pranic Healing.


This is a serious book but vibrantly written and leavened with many colorful stories about Master Choa Kok Sui, the founder of Modern Pranic Healing, his spiritual mentors, experiences of his disciples and rapid spread of Pranic Healing and Arhatic Yoga
]]> Choa Kok Sui 9710376071 Shokoofeh 0 4.82 2006 The Origin Of Modern Pranic Healing And Arhatic Yoga
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