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The German List

What Was Before

Mosebach Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780857427182, ISBN: HB: 9780857422149, Seagull Books, September 2019
296 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Martin Mosebach's novel "What Was Before" opens with a young couple enjoying a moment of carefree intimacy. Then the young woman, turning slightly more serious, asks her lover that fateful question, one that sounds so innocent but carries toxic seeds...

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Children's Books

Wonderful Wizard of Oz / Marvelous Land of Oz Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection

Baum Frank L.

ISBN: HB: 9781435169432, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, August 2019
368 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm

This volume features the first two novels of L. Frank Baum s classic Oz series for younger readers. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are transported by a powerful cyclone to the magical land of Oz, where they team u...

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White Noise Ballrooms

Barber Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9783035800302, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2018
224 pp., 22.2x14 cm

"The devil is at our heels... at the heart of the city's aberrations". Picture a lost city in northern England during the momentous winter of 1978 – the final winter before the onset of the Thatcher era, at the peak of the punk rock movement. A notor...

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Wishes

Perec Georges

ISBN: PB: 9781939663337, DAP, Wakefield Press, July 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in Estonia! "In the beginning was the pun", Samuel Beckett once wrote. And so it was that Georges Perec brought the good word to his friends and acquaintances on a yearly basis, as an expression of his best wishes for the New Year. "Wi...

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The Arab List

Where the Bird Disappeared

Zaqtan Ghassan

ISBN: HB: 9780857425423, Seagull Books, July 2018
96 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

This lyrical novel, set in the surroundings of the Palestinian village of Zakariyya, weaves a narrative rich in sensory detail yet troubled by the porousness of memory. It tells the story of the relationship between two figures of deep mythical reson...

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The India List

Wildfire And Other Stories

Banaphool

ISBN: PB: 9780857424976, Seagull Books, February 2018
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Banaphool – which means wildflower – was the pen name of beloved Bengali writer Balaichand Mukhopadhyay (1899-1979). "Wildfire" brings together forty-five short pieces by Banaphool that are brilliantly representative of his uncompromising, multifacet...

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Walnut Mansion

Jergovic Miljenko, Dickey Stephen M., Pavetic-Dickey Janja

ISBN: PB: 9780300226980, Yale University Press, September 2017
456 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This grand novel encompasses nearly all of Yugoslavia's tumultuous twentieth century, from the decline of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires through two world wars, the rise and fall of communism, the breakup of the nation, and the terror of th...

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We Were a Handful

Polacek Karel

ISBN: PB: 9788024632858, ISBN: HB: 9788024614496, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2017
400 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A favorite work of Czech humor, "We Were a Handful" depicts the adventures of five boys from a small Czech town through the diary of Petr Bajza, the grocer's son. Written by Karel Polacek...

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William the Conqueror The Last Viking

Carpentier Vincent

ISBN: PB: 9782815103176, Casemate, OREP, June 2016
96 pp., 24x19 cm

William the Conqueror's crossing of the Channel in 1066 is the stuff of legend, but can it also be seen as the last great Viking expedition? The story begins in 911 when, on the coast of the Northern France the French King gave the Viking chieftain,...

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Classic War Fiction

Whistlers' Room

Alverdes Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781612004662, Casemate, April 2016
128 pp., 19x13.2 cm

"The Whistlers' Room" is the surprisingly gentle, sensitive story of a section in a German hospital where three soldiers try to recover from battle injuries. They are known as the Whistlers, as all were shot in the throat and their breathing results...

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