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New Adventures of Don Quixote
ISBN: HB: 9780857422095, Seagull Books, December 2014
200 pp., 25x15 cm, 30 colour plates
Tariq Ali's latest play, "The New Adventures of Don Quixote", can be read as an homage to German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht as much as a playful tribute to Cervantes's masterwork. The central characters from the original novel, Don Quixote an...
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£22,50
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"How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients" and Other Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780857422200, Seagull Books, December 2014
400 pp., 25x15 cm, 24 halftones
Dramatist, poet, novelist, and journalist Matei Visniec, born in Romania and living in France since seeking political asylum in 1987, has been one of the most trenchant voices of Europe, condemning the atrocities of totalitarianism as well as excesse...
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"Loose Screws" and Other Polish Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780857421777, Seagull Books, December 2014
400 pp., 19x15.2 cm
An unprecedented anthology of contemporary Polish drama, "Loose Screws" brings together nine previously un-translated plays by prominent playwrights who have emerged in rapidly changing postcommunist landscapes. The plays expose ways in which individ...
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£30,00
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Pow!
ISBN: PB: 9780857422217, ISBN: HB: 9780857420763, Seagull Books, December 2014
440 pp., 25x15 cm
A benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama – in which nearly everyone dies – unfurls. But in this tale of sharp hatchets, bad water, and a rusty WWII mortar...
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£13,50
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Asylum and Exile The Hidden Voices of London
ISBN: HB: 9780857422101, Seagull Books, December 2014
152 pp., 25x15 cm
"Asylum and Exile" is the result of several months of personal outreach to refugees and asylum seekers that goes behind the headlines to reveal the humanity, tragedy, and bravery of the individuals who have left everything behind to seek sanctuary fr...
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£14,50
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Rhythm Field The Dance of Molissa Fenley
ISBN: PB: 9780857422194, Seagull Books, December 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 halftones
Molissa Fenley, one of the most influential artists of postmodern dance, has had a lasting impact on performance. In dance, she has explored extreme effort and duration in highly crafted patterns and performed with an explosive, joyous energy that in...
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£34,00
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Black Diamond
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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£20,50
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Sexual Night
ISBN: HB: 9780857422064, Seagull Books, December 2014
124 pp., 25x15 cm, 48 colour plates
In "The Sexual Night", renowned French writer and critic Pascal Quignard meditates on a remarkable collection of illustrations of sexual imagery. He moves from the annals of global art to ancient and modern, from Bosch and Durer to Rembrandt and Tint...
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Shrapnel Minima Writings from Humanities Underground
ISBN: PB: 9780857421876, Seagull Books, December 2014
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This collection of essays, fiction, poetry and discussions, derived from the cult Internet magazine "HumanitiesUnderground", provides entry into some of the most burning issues in the humanities in contemporary South Asia.  The anthology brings toget...
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Tombe
ISBN: HB: 9780857420251, Seagull Books, December 2014
284 pp., 25x15 cm
"In 1968-1969 I wanted to die, that is to say, stop living, being killed, but it was blocked on all sides", wrote Helene Cixous, esteemed French feminist, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and novelist. Instead of suicide, she began to dream o...
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