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Fiction

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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Fiction

Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor

Ball Hugo

ISBN: PB: 9781939663030, DAP, Wakefield Press, July 2014
170 pp., 22.9x15.9 cm, 10 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! In 1916, Hugo Ball (1886-1927) cofounded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich and penned the "Dada Manifesto", launching what would become the Zurich Dada movement. That same year he completed his semi-autobiographical novel, "Fl...

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Fiction

The French List

We Are the Birds of the Coming Storm

Lafon Lola

ISBN: HB: 9780857421890, Seagull Books, July 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"We Are the Birds of the Coming Storm" is a wild novel that oscillates between fiction and reality. The story centers on two young women: Voltairine, a dancer who no longer dances but whose body is still haunted by the movement of dance, and her soul...

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Poetry

Coming Forth by Day

Levin Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9781847772688, Carcanet, June 2014
96 pp., 21.6x13.4 cm

Gabriel Levin's new collection breaks new ground in its formal experimentation as well as in its exploration of remote corners of the Mediterranean. The long title poem is written from the multiple perspectives of the personages in Courbet's large pa...

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Poetry

Dante's Inferno

Terry Philip

ISBN: PB: 9781847772206, Carcanet, June 2014
160 pp., 21.6x13.2 cm

Following his irreverent Oulipian reworking of Shakespeare's Sonnets, in his new book Philip Terry takes on Dante's Inferno, shifting the action from the twelfth century to the present day and relocating it to the modern "walled city" of the Universi...

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Literary Criticism

Symbolist Movement in Literature

Symons Arthur

ISBN: PB: 9781847771254, Carcanet, June 2014
336 pp., 21.6x13.4 cm

First published in 1899, "The Symbolist Movement in Literature" was a highly influential work of criticism, and served to introduce the French Symbolists to an Anglophone readership. Symons' interest in writers such as Paul Verlaine and Stephane Mall...

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Fiction

Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Hell

Rojas Carlos, Grossman Edith

ISBN: PB: 9780300205862, ISBN: HB: 9780300167764, Yale University Press, June 2014
224 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

In Carlos Rojas' imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles Breughel's Tower of Babel. He sits alone in a small theatre in this private he...

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Fiction

La Vida Doble A Novel

Fontaine Talavera Arturo, McDowell Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780300205763, ISBN: HB: 9780300176698, Yale University Press, June 2014
320 pp., 21x14 cm

Set in the darkest years of the Pinochet dictatorship, "La Vida Doble" is the story of Lorena, a leftist militant who arrives at a merciless turning point when every choice she confronts is impossible. Captured by agents of the Chilean repression, wi...

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Poetry

Judaism

Poetry of Kabbalah Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition

Cole Peter, Dykman Aminadav

ISBN: PB: 9780300205695, ISBN: HB: 9780300169164, Yale University Press, June 2014
320 pp., 21x14 cm

This groundbreaking collection presents for the first time in English a substantial body of poetry from the world of Jewish mysticism. Taking up Gershom Scholem's call to plumb the "tremendous poetic potential concealed" in the Kabbalistic tradition,...

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Fiction

Book of Gaza A City in Short Fiction

Saif Atef Abu

ISBN: PB: 9781905583645, Carcanet, June 2014
224 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm

Under the Israeli occupation of the '70s and '80s, writers in Gaza had to go to considerable lengths to ever have a chance of seeing their work in print. Manuscripts were written out longhand, invariably under pseudonyms, and smuggled out of the Stri...

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