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Lamentation for 77,297 Victims
ISBN: PB: 9788024645339, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
85 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Smoke from nearby factories shrouds a countryside as flat as a table, a countryside stretching off to infinity. Covering it are the ashes of millions of dead. Scattered throughout are fin...
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£10,00
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Further News of Defeat Stories
ISBN: PB: 9781938769641, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Steeped in a long history of violence and suffering, Michael X. Wang's debut collection of short stories interrogates personal and political events set against the backdrop of China that are both real and perceived, imagined and speculative. Wang plu...
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£15,00
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Divine Song
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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£14,99
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Upright Revolution Or Why Humans Walk Upright
ISBN: HB: 9780857426475, Seagull Books, September 2019
48 pp., 21.5x21.5 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
Science has given us several explanations for how humans evolved from walking on four limbs to two feet. None, however, is as riveting as what master storyteller Ngugi wa Thiong'o offers in "The Upright Revolution". Blending myth and folklore with an...
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£14,99
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Mr Adamson
ISBN: PB: 9780857427168, ISBN: HB: 9780857422323, Seagull Books, September 2019
176 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
The day is Friday, May 22, 2032. On this day, the day after his ninety-fourth birthday, a man is sitting in a beautiful garden. It is a paradise where he often played during his childhood, and it is here that he is recording the story of his adventur...
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£9,99
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£19,00
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August
ISBN: PB: 9780857427076, ISBN: HB: 9780857421869, Seagull Books, September 2019
80 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Christa Wolf was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. Having grown up during the Nazi regime, she and her family were forced to flee their home like many others, nearly starving to death in the process. Her...
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£7,99
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£13,00
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During-the-Event
ISBN: PB: 9781602233829, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2019
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For D. E., only two certainties exist: his grandfather is dead and life will never be the same".During-the-Event" is a dystopian adventure that roams across a fallen United States, introducing an unforgettable cast of characters along the way. In the...
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£17,00
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Rockabilly
ISBN: PB: 9783035800975, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2018
80 pp., 22.2x14 cm
When a meteor crashes into greaser Rockabilly's backyard, a ripple of strange events ensues. The tattoo of a pin-up girl on his back comes to life and begins to exert her murderous control over the suburb in which he lives. His precocious teenage nei...
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£11,00
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Blue Jewellery
ISBN: HB: 9780857425379, Seagull Books, October 2018
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"'Blue jewellery" is private property. Not to be seen. Not to be talked about. It is worn like a bracelet around the wrists, on ribs, legs, arms. Blue jewellery is another name for the marks left on women's bodies, inflicted by the men around them....
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£16,00
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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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£16,99
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