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Epic of Damarudhar
ISBN: HB: 9780857427458, Seagull Books, August 2021
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Originally published between 1910 and 1917, and collected in book form in 1923, "The Epic of Damarudhar" story cycle occupies an important and unique position in the history of Bengali literature. Tackling cosmology and mythology, class and caste abu...
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Ever Since I Did Not Die
ISBN: HB: 9780857427908, Seagull Books, July 2021
96 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
"I gathered these texts like someone collecting body parts. Here are the pieces of my body, haphazardly brought together in a paper bag. It looks like me with all my madness and sickness – how the revolution made me grow up, what the war broke inside...
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Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons
ISBN: PB: 9780857428363, ISBN: HB: 9780857421845, Seagull Books, March 2021
232 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"My father bought me from the council for 365 francs", recalls the narrator in Monica Cantieni's novel 'The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons'. She's a young girl, an immigrant to Switzerland whose adoption is yet to be finalized. When she finally moves...
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etudes
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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Everything and Other Performance Texts from Germany
ISBN: PB: 9780857426123, Seagull Books, September 2019
400 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
In "Everything: And Other Performance Texts from Germany", Matt Cornish gathers texts drawn from performances by five of the most renowned theater collectives working today: andcompany&Co., Gob Squad, Rimini Protokoll, She She Pop, and Showcase Beat...
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Eulogy for the Living Taking Flight
ISBN: HB: 9780857425546, Seagull Books, July 2018
136 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Christa Wolf tried for years to find a way to write about her childhood in Nazi Germany. In her 1976 book "Patterns of Childhood", she explained why it was so difficult: "Gradually, over a period of months, the dilemma has emerged: to remain speechle...
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Essay on Negation Towards a Linguistic Anthropology
ISBN: HB: 9780857424389, Seagull Books, February 2018
232 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
As speaking animals, we continuously make use of an unassuming grammatical particle, without suspecting that what is at work in its inconspicuousness is a powerful apparatus, which orchestrates language, signification, and the world at large. What pa...
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Enraged Citizens, European Peace and Democratic Deficits Or Why the Democracy Given to Us Must Become One We Fight For
ISBN: HB: 9780857423627, Seagull Books, March 2017
112 pp., 19x12.7 cm
In 2010, Robert Menasse journeyed to Brussels to begin work on a novel centered on the European Union. His extended stay resulted in a completely different book – "Enraged Citizens, European Peace and Democratic Deficiencies", a work of nonfiction ex...
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Empty Space
ISBN: HB: 9780857423948, Seagull Books, November 2016
272 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
When a bomb explodes in a university cafe, nineteen students are killed. "The Empty Space" begins with the identification of these slain students. Slowly, each individual is claimed and taken away for a proper burial by their mourning family members....
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Eye of the Needle Towards Participatory Democracy in South Africa
ISBN: HB: 9780857422378, Seagull Books, May 2015
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Described by Nelson Mandela as a source of inspiration, Richard Turner was a central figure in the white South African student movement and key in its radicalization. Turner acquired his doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he was inspired by th...
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