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EX LIBRIS - MICHIKO KAKUTANI GEBUNDEN

Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares 100 personal  thought-provoking
essays about books that have mattered to her and that help illuminate the world we live in
today-with beautiful illustrations throughout. In the introduction to her new collection of
essays  Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread  Michiko Kakutani writes: In a world riven by
political and social divisions  literature can connect people across time zones and zip codes 
across cultures and religions  national boundaries and historical eras. It can give us an
understanding of lives very different from our own  and a sense of the shared joys and losses
of human experience. Readers will discover novels and memoirs by some of the most gifted
writers working today  favorite classics worth reading or rereading  and nonfiction works  both
old and new  that illuminate our social and political landscape and some of today's most
pressing issues  from climate change to medicine to the consequences of digital innovation.
There are essential works in American history (The Federalist Papers  The Writings and Speeches
of Martin Luther King  Jr.)  books that address timely cultural dynamics (Elizabeth Kolbert's
The Sixth Extinction  Daniel J. Boorstin's The Image  Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale) 
classics of children's literature (the Harry Potter novels  Where the Wild Things Are)  and
novels by acclaimed contemporary writers like Don DeLillo  William Gibson  Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie  and Ian McEwan. With richly detailed illustrations by lettering artist Dana Tanamachi
that evoke vintage bookplates  Ex Libris is an impassioned reminder of why reading matters more
than ever.

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