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Dark Ship
ISBN: PB: 9780857428394, ISBN: HB: 9780857420367, Seagull Books, March 2021
520 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Growing up in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a young Kurdish boy named Kerim has ample opportunity to witness the murderous repression that defined the era for thousands of Iraqis. In Sherko Fatah's "The Dark Ship", we experience an extraordinary new voice i...
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£12,99
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£26,50
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Mechanisms of Loss Two Novellas
ISBN: HB: 9780300237177, Yale University Press, February 2021
160 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
From esteemed Greek writer Michel Fais comes a pair of novellas that explore the stories we choose to tell about the lives we pretend to live. "Aegypius monachus" is a semi-autobiographical snapshot of a man roaming the streets of Athens, reflecting...
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£20,00
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Hidden Path
ISBN: PB: 9780997228786, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, October 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Set in early twentieth-century Spain, Hidden Path is a lyrical coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of a woman painter who struggles to find her way with art and with the women she loved. The novel is narrated in the first-person, following...
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£24,00
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Answer from the Silence A Story from the Mountains
ISBN: PB: 9780857427106, ISBN: HB: 9781906497927, Seagull Books, September 2019
136 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
This novel by esteemed Swiss writer Max Frisch is an exploration of the question: "Why don't we live when we know we're here just this one time, just one single, unrepeatable time in this unutterably magnificent world?!" This outcry against the empti...
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£9,99
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£14,50
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Science Fiktion
ISBN: HB: 9780857426017, Seagull Books, September 2019
280 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
When a young reader once asked Franz Fuhmann if he considered his work to be science fiction, he was quick to deny it: he wanted nothing to do with the genre. As he began writing the stories that make up this volume, however, he found himself coming...
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£18,99
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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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£11,99
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£16,00
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: Classic Works Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
ISBN: HB: 9781435167414, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, August 2018
864 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, illus.
No writer portrayed America's Roaring Twenties as vividly as F. Scott Fitzgerald, and his stories seem as fresh today as they did nearly a century ago".F. Scott Fitzgerald: Classic Works" features two novels: "This Side of Paradise" and "The Beautifu...
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£30,00
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Cremator
ISBN: PB: 9788024632902, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
180 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The devil's neatest trick is to persuade us that he doesn't exist" – Giovanni Papini. It is a maxim that both rings true in our contemporary world and pervades this tragicomic novel of an...
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£13,50
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Melancholy
ISBN: HB: 9780300167481, Yale University Press, June 2016
384 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer Laszlo Foldenyi as "one of the most brilliant essayists of our time". Foldenyi's extraordinary Melancholy, with its profusion of literary, ecclesiastical, artistic, and historical insights, gives proof to...
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£20,00
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Cabin, Clearing, Forest
ISBN: PB: 9781602232754, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2015
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"People break my heart. Every single one of them does". In settings that range from rural fishing communities to the urban capital, the stories of "Cabin, Clearing, Forest" are a lyrical road map to the human landscape of contemporary Alaska. In "Blu...
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£13,00
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