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Land Like You
ISBN: HB: 9780857427885, Seagull Books, December 2020
340 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Cairo 1925, Haret al-Yahud, the old Jewish Quarter. Esther, a beautiful young woman believed to be possessed by demons, longs to give birth after seven blissful years of marriage. Her husband, blind since childhood, does not object when, in her effor...
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£21,99
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Captain's Verses
ISBN: PB: 9781784109240, Carcanet, September 2020
208 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Pablo Neruda wrote the poems in Los versos del capitan as a celebration of his love for his third wife, Matilde Urrutia – a love affair that is itself celebrated in the acclaimed film Il Postino. Originally published anonymously in 1952 to spare his...
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£14,99
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Foxy Aesop On the Edge
ISBN: HB: 9789385932427, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
160 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Very little is known about Aesop who was supposed to have been a slave on the island of Samos in the sixth century BC. It is his fables (and those attributed to him) that have come down to us through the centuries. In this version, a fabulist from...
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£15,00
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Mokusei! A Love Story
ISBN: HB: 9780857424846, Seagull Books, October 2017
64 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Two men talk in Tokyo. One, a Belgian, is a diplomat. The other, Dutch, is a photographer. What, they wonder, is the real face of Japan? How can they get beyond the European idea of the nation and its people – with its exoticism – and see Japan as it...
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£12,99
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Shadows of Your Black Memory
ISBN: PB: 9780997228700, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, October 2016
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Set during the last years of Spanish rule in Equatorial Guinea, "Shadows of Your Black Memory" presents the voice of a young African man reflecting on his childhood. Through the idealistic eyes of the nameless protagonist, Donato Ndongo portrays the...
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£15,00
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Cage in Search of a Bird
ISBN: HB: 9780857423757, Seagull Books, September 2016
144 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Laura Wilmote is a television journalist living in Paris. Her life couldn't be better – a stimulating job, a loving boyfriend, interesting friends – until her phone rings in the middle of one night. It is C., an old school friend whom Laura recently...
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£16,00
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Attachment
ISBN: HB: 9780857422330, Seagull Books, April 2015
128 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
When Anna discovers a long letter that her mother Marie wrote, Marie has been dead for some time, and Anna is shocked to learn that her mother disappeared with a secret. The letter is addressed to Marie's first great love, a much older teacher who sh...
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£16,00
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Fly Away, Pigeon
ISBN: HB: 9780857422125, Seagull Books, November 2014
212 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Fly Away, Pigeon" tells the heart-wrenching story of a family torn between emigration and immigration and paints evocative portraits of the former Yugoslavia and modern-day Switzerland.  In this novel, Melinda Nadj Abonji interweaves two narrative s...
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£20,50
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Suki
ISBN: HB: 9789383074105, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
264 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In "Suki", Suniti Namjoshi weaves a witty and delightful tapestry from threads of longing, loss, memory, metaphor, and contemplation. Taken as a whole, the picture she draws is a stunning evocation of the love and friendship shared between herself an...
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£16,00
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Deaf American Prose, 1830-1930
ISBN: PB: 9781563685651, Gallaudet University Press, September 2013
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
This new anthology showcases the work of Deaf writers during a critical formative period in their history. From 1830 to 1930, these writers conveyed their impressions in autobiographies, travel narratives, romances, non-fiction short stories, editori...
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£45,00
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