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Rachel's Blue

Mda Zakes

ISBN: HB: 9780857423320, Seagull Books, March 2016
296 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Novelist Zakes Mda has made a name for himself as a key chronicler of the new, post-apartheid South Africa, casting a satirical eye on its claims of political unity, its rising black middle class, and other aspects of its complicated, multiracial soc...

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After the Circus A Novel

Modiano Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300215892, Yale University Press, January 2016
216 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

One of the hallmarks of French author Patrick Modiano's writing is a singular ability to revisit particular motifs and episodes, infusing each telling with new detail and emotional nuance. In this evocative novel the internationally acclaimed author...

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Roar of Morning

Marugg Tip, Vincent Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300207644, Yale University Press, October 2015
144 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

"Tip" Marugg's "The Roar of Morning" has been widely praised as an intensely personal, often dreamlike literary masterpiece that balances Caribbean mysticism with the magical realism of Latin American fiction while reflecting the Calvinist sensibilit...

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Fence

Mehta Ila Arab

ISBN: PB: 9789383074877, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2015
200 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm

Ila Arab Mehta is an award-winning Gujarati author most noted for her explorations of feminist thinking. In this new translation of her beautiful and skillfully crafted novel Fence, we meet Fateema Lokhandwala, a young Muslim woman in present-day Guj...

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Creatures at the Absolute Bottom of the Sea

McGuire Rosemary

ISBN: PB: 9781602232594, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2015
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A man witnesses a tragic accident that calls his own life into question. A young woman meets her high school sweetheart after many years and seeks to make sense of the separate paths they've taken. A soldier home from Iraq tries to rebuild his life i...

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Black Diamond

Mda Zakes

ISBN: HB: 9780857422224, Seagull Books, December 2014
312 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In this novel by celebrated South African writer Zakes Mda, Kristin Uys, a tough magistrate who lives alone with her cat in the Roodepoort district of Johannesburg, goes on a one-woman crusade to wipe out prostitution in her town. Her reasons are per...

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House of Shadows

Meur Diane

ISBN: HB: 9780857420282, Seagull Books, December 2014
484 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

After the failed revolutions of 1848, Galicia has been brought under the rule of the Habsburg Empire, and the Zemka family find themselves embroiled in the struggle for Polish independence. This is a history of Eastern Europe told in miniature throug...

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Suspended Sentences Three Novellas

Modiano Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300198058, Yale University Press, November 2014
232 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Although originally published separately, Patrick Modiano's three novellas form a single, compelling whole, haunted by the same gauzy sense of place and characters. Modiano draws on his own experiences, blended with the real or invented stories of ot...

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Caribou Journey

Miller Debbie S.

ISBN: PB: 9781602230965, ISBN: HB: 9781602230972, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2014
32 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 15 colour illus.

An imposing line of caribou stretches for miles across the frozen tundra of Alaska. The sound of clicking hooves echoes through the air as the herd follows its centuries-old migration route. With their thick coats and their padded, shovel-like hooves...

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Winter Mythologies and Abbots

Michon Pierre, Jefferson Ann

ISBN: PB: 9780300179064, Yale University Press, April 2014
128 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This welcome volume brings to English-language readers two beautifully crafted novellas by internationally acclaimed French author Pierre Michon. "Winter Mythologies and Abbots" are both set in the Middle Ages – Mythologies among the monks of tenth-c...

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