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Bartleby & Co.

Fiction

Enrique Vila-Matas
translated by Jonathan Dunne

A marvelous novel by one of Spain's most important contemporary authors, in which a clerk in a Barcelona office takes us on a romping tour of world literature.

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Enrique Vila-Matas

Contemporary Spanish writer

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Publication Date: December 1, 2004

Cloth $22.95
CN 0.00
160 pages
ISBN 9780811215916

Paperback $ 14.95
160 pages
ISBN 9780811216982

trim size: 5x8

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