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Red Scarf Followed by "Two Stages" and Additional Notes

Bonnefoy Yves

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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Radio Works: 1946-48

Artaud Antonin

ISBN: PB: 9783035802504, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, September 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Following his release from the Rodez asylum, Antonin Artaud decided he wanted his new work to connect with a vast public audience, and he chose to record radio broadcasts in order to carry through that aim. That determination led him to his most expe...

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Respectable Woman

Kire Easterine

ISBN: HB: 9789385932472, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
220 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

The Second World War has just ended. The Japanese have departed. In Nagaland in northeast India – one of the key theaters of the battle – political unrest and tremendous social changes have generated new social problems. For returning soldiers and ot...

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Readymade Bodhisattva The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction

Park Sunyoung, Sang Joon Park

ISBN: PB: 9781885030573, DAP, Kaya Press, February 2019
528 pp., 18.4x12.7 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction" presents the first book-length English-language translation of science and speculative fiction from South Korea, bringing together 13 classic and c...

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Rockabilly

Wilson Mike

ISBN: PB: 9783035800975, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2018
80 pp., 22.2x14 cm

When a meteor crashes into greaser Rockabilly's backyard, a ripple of strange events ensues. The tattoo of a pin-up girl on his back comes to life and begins to exert her murderous control over the suburb in which he lives. His precocious teenage nei...

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River Runs through It and Other Stories

Maclean Norman

ISBN: PB: 9780226472065, ISBN: HB: 9780226475592, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm

When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of "A River Runs through It and Other Stories" to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, "it has trees in it". Forty years later, the title novella is rec...

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The French List

Red Sofa

Lesbre Michele

ISBN: HB: 9780857423733, Seagull Books, March 2017
104 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In "The Red Sofa", we meet Anne, a young woman setting off on the Trans-Siberian Railway in order to find her former lover, Gyl, who left twenty years before. As the train moves across post-Soviet Russia and its devastated landscapes, Anne reflects o...

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Rambling On An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab

Hrabal Bohumil

ISBN: PB: 9788024632865, ISBN: HB: 9788024623160, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
230 pp., 19x14 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point...

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Classic War Fiction

Roux the Bandit

Chamson Andre

ISBN: PB: 9781612004174, Casemate, August 2016
112 pp., 19x13.2 cm

Set deep in the mountains of southern France, this charming short novel tells the story of a man from the Cevennes Mountains called Roux, who refuses to join the army at the outbreak of war in 1914. Instead, he flees and hides in the hills, only retu...

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The Africa List

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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