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Beforeland A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9781946724380, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, October 2020
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In The Beforeland, a boy's desperate act of rebellion against his grandmother reverberates outward, causing rifts and reckonings in the lives of others: a man fleeing his own troubled family who becomes the grandson's unwitting accomplice; a poet str...
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£16,00
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Mr. K Released
ISBN: HB: 9780857426482, Seagull Books, February 2020
280 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Mirroring Romania's drastic transition from totalitarianism to Western-style freedom in the late 1980s, "Mr. K Released" captures the disturbingly surreal feeling that many newly liberated prisoners face when they leave captivity. Employing his trade...
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£18,99
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Heaven
ISBN: PB: 9781784108861, Carcanet, January 2020
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This is the first translation of Spanish poet Manuel Vilas's two major collections "Heaven" ("El cielo", 2000) and "Heat" ("Calor", 2008) into English. Thematically fuelled with alcohol, death and sex, they go off into freewheeling megalomaniacal fli...
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£12,99
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Czech Dreambook
ISBN: PB: 9788024638522, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
450 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 25 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! It's 1979 in Communist Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing period known as normalization, and Ludvik Vaculik has writer's block. It has been nearly a decade since he wrote his powe...
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£21,00
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Letters, Dreams, and Other Writings
ISBN: PB: 9781939663399, DAP, Wakefield Press, November 2018
128 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 1 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! While the reputation of Remedios Varo (1908-63) the surrealist painter is now well established, Remedios Varo the writer has yet to be fully discovered. Her writings, which were never published during her life let alone tra...
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£12,99
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Javelin Thrower
ISBN: HB: 9780857425393, Seagull Books, October 2018
288 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
As a boy growing up in rural Italy in the 1930s, Dam?n is experiencing the first stirrings of adolescence when he accidentally sees his mother having sex with the local Fascist commandant. His pain, anger, and confusion are uncomfortably intertwined...
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£18,99
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Book of Whispers
ISBN: HB: 9780300223460, Yale University Press, February 2018
360 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The grandchild of Armenians who escaped widespread massacres during the Ottoman Empire a century ago, Varujan Vosganian grew up in Romania hearing firsthand accounts of those who had witnessed horrific killings, burned villages, and massive deportati...
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£18,99
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Children's Classics
ISBN: HB: 9781435144736, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, August 2017
384 pp., 21.6x15.3 cm, illus.
First published in England by Griffith and Farran in 1871, this edition is not a translation at all but a complete re-write of the novel, with portions added and omitted, and names changed. A better translation is "A Journey into the Interior of the...
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£18,00
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Summer of Caprice
ISBN: PB: 9788024632896, ISBN: HB: 9788024611952, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2017
204 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 8 colour plates, 90 line drawings
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Summer of Caprice", a captivating comic novel first published in 1926, is a classic of Czech literature, yet it is little known elsewhere. Commonly considered untranslatable due to the co...
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£8,99
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£22,50
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Children's Classics
ISBN: HB: 9781435162150, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, August 2016
480 pp., 21.6x15.3 cm, illus.
A gorgeous edition of Jules Verne's landmark of science fiction and wonder, featuring full-colour art by Milo Winter. When Professor Pierre Aronnax and harpoonist Ned Land join an expedition to hunt a fierce 'whale' that has been sinking ships, they...
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£18,00
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