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Mesopotamia
ISBN: PB: 9780300223354, Yale University Press, July 2018
328 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
This captivating book is Serhiy Zhadan's ode to Kharkiv, the traditionally Russian-speaking city in Eastern Ukraine where he makes his home. A leader among Ukrainian post-independence authors, Zhadan employs both prose and poetry to address the disil...
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£12,99
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Where the Bird Disappeared
ISBN: HB: 9780857425423, Seagull Books, July 2018
96 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
This lyrical novel, set in the surroundings of the Palestinian village of Zakariyya, weaves a narrative rich in sensory detail yet troubled by the porousness of memory. It tells the story of the relationship between two figures of deep mythical reson...
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£12,99
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At Twilight They Return A Novel in Ten Tales
ISBN: HB: 9780300200713, Yale University Press, January 2017
528 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The powerful and stylistically brilliant saga of a family by one of contemporary Greece's most acclaimed literary masters Zyranna Zateli's ambitious, multigenerational saga is the story of Christoforos, who first weds Petroula, and then Eftha, follow...
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£18,99
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Describing the Past
ISBN: HB: 9780857423498, Seagull Books, September 2016
80 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
When he was seven years old, Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan moved with his family to a Karameh refugee camp east of the River Jordan. That camp – a center of Palestinian resistance following the Six-Day War and the site of major devastation when Isr...
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£14,50
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Love Letter in Cuneiform
ISBN: PB: 9780300186970, Yale University Press, May 2016
328 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
Set in Czechoslovakia between the 1940s and the 1990s, Tomas Zmeskal's stimulating novel focuses on one family's tragic story of love and the unspoken. Josef meets his wife, Kveta, before the Second World War at a public lecture on Hittite culture. K...
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Four Days in Michigan A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9781563685347, Gallaudet University Press, April 2012
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
As a young, deaf Jewish woman living in a small town in Michigan in 1942, Sandra Horowitz felt deeply frustrated by her limited prospects. Even though she had just graduated from junior college, she knew that she had two strikes against her in fulfil...
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