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Fiction

Valley of the Fallen

Rojas Carlos, Grossman Edith

ISBN: HB: 9780300217964, Yale University Press, March 2018
312 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

This historical novel by one of Spain's most celebrated authors weaves a tale of disparate time periods: the early years of the nineteenth century, when Francisco de Goya was at the height of his artistic career, and the final years of Generalissimo...

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Poetry

The India List

Very Close to Pleasure, There's a Sick Cat And Other Poems

Chattopadhyay Shakti

ISBN: HB: 9780857424938, Seagull Books, February 2018
124 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In the early 1960s, the Hungry Generation revitalized Bengali poetry in Calcutta, liberating it from the fetters of scholarship and the fog of punditry and freeing it to explore new forms, language, and subjects. Shakti Chattopadhyay was a cofounder...

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Fiction

The French List

Villa Amalia

Quignard Pascal

ISBN: HB: 9780857424785, Seagull Books, February 2018
264 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Musician Ann Hidden suspects her partner, Thomas, isn't telling her everything. So one dark night, she secretly follows him to an unfamiliar house in the Paris suburbs, where he disappears inside with an unknown woman. But before she can even begin t...

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Poetry

Islam

Vintage Humour The Islamic Wine Poetry of Abu Nuwas

Rowell Alex

ISBN: HB: 9781849048972, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Abu Nuwas, the pre-eminent bacchic bard of the classical Arabic canon, was loved and reviled in equal measure for his lyrical celebration of Abbasid Baghdad's dissolute nightlife, his cutting satires of religion and the clergy,...

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Literary Criticism

Voynich Manuscript

Clemens Raymond, Harkness Deborah E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300217230, Yale University Press, February 2017
304 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 268 colour illus.

The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle. "The Voynich Manuscript" is produced from new photographs of the entire original and accompanied by expert essays that invite anyone to understan...

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Poetry

Vladimir Mayakovsky And Other Poems

Mayakovsky Vladimir

ISBN: PB: 9781784102920, Carcanet, October 2016
72 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

Womack gives us an essential Mayakovsky: "A Cloud In Trousers", "I Love", a film scenario, a play, agit-prop, love poetry, public and private verse. The great poet of the Soviet era remains a great enigma.

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Poetry

Visible Voices Translating Verse into Script and Print 3000 BC - AD 2000

Barker Nicolas

ISBN: PB: 9781847772121, Carcanet, February 2016
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

In "Visible Voices" Nicolas Barker traces the history of the "translation" of poetry from a spoken medium to a written, or printed, medium. The book moves from the pictograms of the Ancient Near East through the development of alphabetic scripts, the...

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Fiction

Venusberg A Novel

Powell Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780226314129, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
168 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial part of his oeuvre: pride, greed, and the strange dri...

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Literary Criticism

Vise and Shadow Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture

Balakian Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226254333, ISBN: HB: 9780226254166, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 6 colour plates, 2 halftones

Peter Balakian is a renowned poet, scholar, and memoirist; but his work as an essayist often prefigures and illuminates all three".I think of vise and shadow as two dimensions of the lyric (literary and visual) imagination", he writes in the preface...

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Literary Criticism

Voice Still Heard Selected Essays of Irving Howe

Howe Irving, Dickstein Morris

ISBN: HB: 9780300203660, Yale University Press, January 2015
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 black&white illus.

Man of letters, political critic, public intellectual, Irving Howe was one of America's most exemplary and embattled writers. Since his death in 1993 at age 72, Howe's work and his personal example of commitment to high principle, both literary and p...

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