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Wolves and Other Stories
ISBN: HB: 9780857427939, Seagull Books, July 2021
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Written during the final stages of the Indian Independence movement, between the gloom and angst of the interwar period and at the cusp of the beginning of modern India, Bhuwaneshwar's short stories both capture the melancholy of the time and ask wha...
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£14,99
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"Open-Winged Scorpion" and Other Stories
ISBN: HB: 9780857425508, Seagull Books, June 2021
240 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"'The Open-Winged Scorpion' and Other Stories" is a collection of ten powerful Bengali short stories, all translated into English for the first time. Hailing from Murshidabad district in West Bengal, Abul Bashar pens stories about precarious lives of...
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Golden Horde Revolutionary Italy, 1960-1977
ISBN: HB: 9780857427465, Seagull Books, May 2021
600 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Golden Horde is a definitive work on the Italian revolutionary movements of the 1960s and '70s. An anthology of texts and fragments woven together with an original commentary, the volume widens our understanding of the full complexity and richnes...
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£35,00
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Radio Family
ISBN: PB: 9780857428172, ISBN: HB: 9780857421913, Seagull Books, March 2021
400 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is recognized as one of post-war German literature's most important novelists, poets, and playwrights. Influenced by Hans Weigel and the legendary literary circle Gruppe 47, Bachmann gained international renown for her p...
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£20,50
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My Father, the Germans and I Essays, Lectures, Interviews
ISBN: PB: 9780857428240, ISBN: HB: 9781906497477, Seagull Books, March 2021
200 pp., 22.9x14 cm
Jurek Becker (1937-1997) is best known for his novel "Jacob the Liar", which follows the life of a man, who, like Becker, lived in the Lodz ghetto during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. Throughout his career, Becker also wrote nonfic...
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£11,99
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£19,00
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Privy Portrait
ISBN: PB: 9780857428424, ISBN: HB: 9780857421661, Seagull Books, March 2021
264 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
The narrator in Jean-Luc Benoziglio's "Privy Portrait" has fallen on hard times. His wife and young daughter have abandoned him, he has no work or prospects, he's blind in one eye, and he must move into a horribly tiny apartment with his only possess...
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£18,00
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Lions
ISBN: PB: 9780857428264, ISBN: HB: 9780857424303, Seagull Books, March 2021
104 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
For distinguished philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession. "Lions", translated by Kari Driscoll, collects thirty-two of Blumenberg's philosophical vignettes to reveal that the figure of the lion unites two of his other great pre...
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£9,99
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£20,00
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Rome, 1630
ISBN: HB: 9780857425966, Seagull Books, March 2021
392 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates
Velazquez. Poussin. Carvaggio. Bernini. Despite their disparate backgrounds, these greats of European Baroque art converged at one remarkable place in time: Rome, 1630. In response to the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church turned to these ma...
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Red Scarf Followed by "Two Stages" and Additional Notes
ISBN: HB: 9780857427380, Seagull Books, March 2021
208 pp., 19.6x13.9 cm
In December 2015, six months before his death at the age of 93, Yves Bonnefoy concluded what was to be his last major text in prose, L'echarpe rouge, translated here as The Red Scarf. In this unique book, described by the poet as "an anamnesis" – a f...
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Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780857428370, ISBN: HB: 9780857421715, Seagull Books, March 2021
164 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Rainer Brambach, one of the most widely appreciated Swiss poets in the 1950s and '60s, was notorious for walking to the beat of his own drum, denying convention and standing his ground against popular styles and trends. He grew up in Basel and left s...
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