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Corpse Washer

Antoon Sinan

ISBN: PB: 9780300205640, Yale University Press, August 2014
192 pp., 21x14 cm

Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing instead to become a sculptor, to celebrate life rather than tend to death. He enters Baghdad's Academy of...

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Fall in, Ghosts The War Prose of Edmund Blunden

Blunden Edmund

ISBN: PB: 9781847772114, Carcanet, August 2014
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) moved among the ghosts of the Great War every day of his long life, having survived the battles of Ypres and the Somme. His classic prose memoir, "Undertones of War", and his early edition of Wilfred Owen's poems were just...

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Cold Spell

Vanasse Deb

ISBN: PB: 9781602232426, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

With precise and evocative prose, "Cold Spell" tells the story of a mother who risks everything to start over and a daughter whose longings threaten to undo them both. From the moment Ruth Sanders rips a glossy photo of a glacier from a magazine, she...

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Beta-Life Short Stories from an A-Life Future

Page Ra

ISBN: PB: 9781905583652, Carcanet, July 2014
400 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm

Computers are changing. Soon the silicon chip will seem like a clunky antique amid the bounty of more exotic processes on offer. Robots are changing too; material evolution and swarm intelligence are creating a new generation of devices that will div...

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Last Lover

Xue Can, Wasmoen Annelise Finegan

ISBN: PB: 9780300153323, Yale University Press, July 2014
352 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

In Can Xue's extraordinary book, we encounter a full assemblage of husbands, wives and lovers. Entwined in complicated, often tortuous relationships, these characters step into each other's fantasies, carrying on conversations that are "forever guess...

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Poetry

God's Zoo Artists, Exiles, Londoners

Kociejowski Marius

ISBN: PB: 9781847772664, Carcanet, July 2014
384 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

This beautifully illustrated book consists of a series of encounters with writers, artists and musicians living in London, all of whom are exiles or emigres displaced from their cultural and geographical origins. The subjects include poet John Rety (...

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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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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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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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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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