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Journey of a Caribbean Writer
ISBN: PB: 9780857427557, ISBN: HB: 9780857420978, Seagull Books, February 2020
232 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
For nearly four decades, Maryse Conde, best known for her novels "Segu" and "Windward Heights", has been at the forefront of French Caribbean literature. In this collection of essays and lectures, written over many years and in response to the challe...
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Joy 100 Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780300248630, ISBN: HB: 9780300226089, Yale University Press, January 2020
232 pp., 21x14 cm
Christian Wiman, a poet known for his meditations on mortality, has long been fascinated by joy and by its relative absence in modern literature. Why is joy so resistant to language? How has it become so suspect in our times? Manipulated by advertise...
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Jew Car
ISBN: PB: 9780857427175, ISBN: HB: 9780857420862, Seagull Books, September 2019
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Originally published in 1962, Franz Fuhmann's autobiographical story cycle "The Jew Car" is a classic of German short fiction and an unparalleled examination of the psychology of National Socialism. Each story presents a snapshot of a personal and hi...
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Jerusalem City of the Book
ISBN: HB: 9780300222852, Yale University Press, June 2019
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.
In this enchanting book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem's libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem, although renowned the world o...
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Javelin Thrower
ISBN: HB: 9780857425393, Seagull Books, October 2018
288 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
As a boy growing up in rural Italy in the 1930s, Dam?n is experiencing the first stirrings of adolescence when he accidentally sees his mother having sex with the local Fascist commandant. His pain, anger, and confusion are uncomfortably intertwined...
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Journeying
ISBN: HB: 9780300218510, Yale University Press, May 2018
288 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
A writer of enormous erudition and wide-ranging travels, Claudio Magris selects for this volume writings penned during trips and wanderings over the span of several decades. He has traveled through these years with many beloved companions, to whom he...
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Just Between Us
ISBN: PB: 9781602233508, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2018
90 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Just Between Us" is a celebration of the vivid human connections that occur when traveling through some of the world's most stirring landscapes. David McElroy, a former pilot in the far north, transports us from the Arctic to the tropics, over rural...
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Jane Austen: Seven Novels Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
ISBN: HB: 9781435167964, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, March 2018
1232 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm
In a publishing career that spanned less than a decade, Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance, using it as a stage from which to address issues of gender politics and class-consciousness rarely expressed in her day. The novels included in t...
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Joy
ISBN: PB: 9781784105037, Carcanet, November 2017
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Dugdale's fourth collection displays an increasingly urgent approach to historical and current geopolitics . It combines an open interest in the historical fate of women, particularly women-creators, and an interest in the fictional and dangerous sha...
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Joyce's Ghosts Ireland, Modernism, and Memory
ISBN: PB: 9780226526959, ISBN: HB: 9780226236179, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones
For decades, James Joyce's modernism has overshadowed his Irishness, as his self-imposed exile and association with the high modernism of Europe's urban centers has led critics to see him almost exclusively as a cosmopolitan figure. In "Joyce's Ghost...
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