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The German List

September Mirage

Lehr Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780857426321, ISBN: HB: 9780857420787, Seagull Books, March 2019
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Two fathers with two daughters: Martin, professor of German, writes but is studying Earth Sciences at MIT; Tariq, a doctor in Baghdad and Muna, is studying the archaeology of a region that is seen as the cradle of civilization. These two parallel rel...

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The Swiss List

Shift Sleepers

Elmiger Dorothee

ISBN: HB: 9780857425997, Seagull Books, March 2019
204 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Somewhere deep in the European forest they meet. Frontier workers, smugglers, refugees, workers, asylum seekers, inspectors, artists, musicians, actors, journalists, scholarship holders, logisticians, students, and ghosts. They come from everywhere....

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Poetry

Sickle

Lillegraven Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780857426116, Seagull Books, March 2019
160 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm

Norway. The 1800s. Endre must to take over the family farm from his father – his father, who swings the sickle and sharpens the scythe, and says this is the only way in which rocks and stones and mounts and waves can still be ours. But Endre is stran...

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Fiction

The German List

Slap in the Face

Khider Abbas

ISBN: HB: 9780857425355, Seagull Books, March 2019
192 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In our era of mass migration, much of it driven by war and its aftermath, "A Slap in the Face" could not be more timely. It tells the story of Karim, an Iraqi refugee living in Germany whose right to asylum has been revoked in the wake of Saddam Huss...

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The Italian List

Solitary

Torchio Maurizio

ISBN: HB: 9780857426079, Seagull Books, March 2019
240 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

We learn more every year about the damaging effects of solitary confinement. This unquestionably cruel and unusual punishment leaves prisoners with no human contact, sometimes for years at a time, and it nearly always leads to lasting trauma. In "Sol...

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Literary Criticism

Culture Studies

Social Life of Books Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

Williams Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780300240252, ISBN: HB: 9780300208290, Yale University Press, January 2019
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 57 black&white illus.

A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century. Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainme...

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Poetry

Selected Poems

Blunden Edmund

ISBN: PB: 9781784106874, Carcanet, December 2018
180 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

To mark the centenary of the First World War, a Selected Poems of Edmund Blunden brings back into print the work of a major war poet and author of the classic memoir Undertones of War. Edmund Blunden joined the Royal Sussex Regiment in 1915, and ser...

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Literary Criticism

Shakespearean Territories

Elden Stuart

ISBN: PB: 9780226559193, ISBN: HB: 9780226559056, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and technology did not elude his attention. In "Shakespearean Territories", Stuart Elden reveals just how much S...

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Poetry

Swimming Chenango Lake Selected Poems

Tomlinson Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781784106799, Carcanet, November 2018
180 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

William Carlos Williams valued Charles Tomlinson's poetry: 'He has divided his line according to a new measure learned, perhaps, for a new world. It gives a refreshing rustle or seething to the words which bespeak the entrance of a new life.' Of all...

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Literary Criticism

Shakespeare's Lyric Stage Myth, Music, and Poetry in the Last Plays

Lerer Seth

ISBN: PB: 9780226582542, ISBN: HB: 9780226582405, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
272 pp., 21.6x14 cm

What does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music? And, just as important but considered less often, what does it mean not to have such a response? What happens when lyric utterances – which should invite consolation, revelation, an...

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