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The Swiss List

Roud Gustave

ISBN: HB: 9780857426871, Seagull Books, February 2020
192 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Gustave Roud, perhaps the most beloved poet of Swiss Romandy, is widely considered the founder of modern francophone Swiss literature, along with Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz. Roud lived at his grandfather's farm in Carrouge, Canton Vaud, for his entire l...

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The Pride List

Camille in October

Best Mireille

ISBN: HB: 9780857426970, Seagull Books, February 2020
292 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In 1950s France, Camille struggles to figure out who she is and where she fits in the world of her coastal working-class neighborhood. Her mother holds the family together, with the support of a group of women who talk over coffee and cigarettes each...

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The Africa List

Divine Song

Waberi Abdourahman A.

ISBN: HB: 9780857426949, Seagull Books, February 2020
216 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

"Everything starts with a song and everything ends with another song", says the narrator of "The Divine Song". Paris is an old Sufi cat who keeps watch over his brilliant yet pathetic master, Sammy Kamau-Williams, the Enchanter. In Sammy, we recogniz...

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Poetry

The German List

etudes

Mayrocker Friederike

ISBN: HB: 9780857426567, Seagull Books, February 2020
208 pp., 21.5x12.7 cm

Exploring longing, lust for life, ageing, mortality, grief, and flowers in her inimitable late style, etudes is a diary-like sequence of poems by one of the greatest living Austrian poets. Friederike Mayrocker's almost daily entries give us a unique...

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The German List

Gramsci's Fall

Bossong Nora

ISBN: HB: 9780857426918, Seagull Books, February 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is it possible to fight for social justice if you've never really loved another person? Can you save a country if you're in love? Forty-six-year-old Anton Stover's marriage is broken. His affairs are a thing of the past, and his career at the univer...

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The Pride List

In the Face of Death We Are Equal

Cao Mu

ISBN: HB: 9780857426987, Seagull Books, February 2020
380 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Those who know me call me Old He, and they also know that I've worked in a crematorium for my entire life". Here begins Mu Cao's novel "In the Face of Death We Are Equal", an unrelentingly realistic portrait of working-class gay men in the underbell...

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Poetry

The French List

Invitation to the Voyage Selected Poems and Prose

Baudelaire Charles

ISBN: HB: 9780857425386, Seagull Books, February 2020
200 pp., 21.5x12.7 cm

"Baudelaire is indeed the greatest exemplar in modern poetry in any language", said T. S. Eliot. We experience Baudelaire in myriad ways through his multifaceted writing. His sensuous poems – dreams of escape to an impossible, preferably tropical, el...

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The India List

Monsoon

Devi Vimala

ISBN: HB: 9780857426956, Seagull Books, February 2020
176 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

An actor of traditional Hindu dramas meets an adolescent girl who turns out to be his half-sister. A man returns to Goa from Mozambique to father a child for a family whose unmarried daughters has produced no heirs. Another man feels out of place in...

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Biography & Memoires

The Africa List

Of Morsels and Marvels

Conde Maryse

ISBN: HB: 9780857426932, Seagull Books, February 2020
324 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

For many, cooking is simply the mechanical act of reproducing standard recipes. To Maryse Conde, however, cooking implies creativity and personal invention, on par with the complexity of writing a story. A cook, she explains, uses spices and flavors...

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Anthropology

The Africa List

Phantom Africa

Leiris Michel

ISBN: PB: 9780857427007, ISBN: HB: 9780857423771, Seagull Books, February 2020
720 pp., 22.8x19 cm, 37 halftones, 3 facsimiles

One of the towering classics of twentieth century French literature, "Phantom Africa" is a singular and ultimately unclassifiable work: a book composed of one man's compulsive and constantly mutating daily travel journal – by turns melodramatic, self...

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