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Oresteia of Aeschylus
ISBN: PB: 9781784108731, Carcanet, April 2020
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
A new verse translation of the "Oresteia of Aeschylus", with illustrations by Tom Phillips.
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£16,99
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Only a Lodger... And Hardly That A Fictional Autobiography
ISBN: HB: 9780857426468, Seagull Books, February 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
A novel in five parts, "Only a Lodger... And Hardly That" puts Vesna Main's power of beautiful observation on full display as she explores how writing stories about one's ancestors is key route to learning about and fashioning one's own identity. Whi...
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£18,99
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Old Masters A Comedy
ISBN: HB: 9780857424709, Seagull Books, October 2018
160 pp., 24.1x17 cm
Thomas Bernhard's "Old Masters" has been called his "most enjoyable novel" by the New York Review of Books. It's a wild satire that takes place almost entirely in front of Tintoretto's "White-Bearded Man", on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum,...
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£16,99
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On My Aunt's Shallow Grave White Roses Have Already Bloomed
ISBN: PB: 9780300215762, Yale University Press, September 2018
200 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
This collection assembles sixteen of Maria Mitsora's short stories in what adds up to be a retrospective of the author's work, spanning forty years. Moving across the urban netherworld of Athens to imagined Latin American towns and science-fiction dy...
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£12,99
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Odyssey Barnes & Noble Flexibound Editions
ISBN: FLEXI: 9781435163102, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, September 2016
296 pp., 21.6x15.3 cm, illus.
"The Odyssey" reveals a universal order where gods intercede in the destinies of men, heroes are both deceitful and brave and a sea voyage becomes a test of human ingenuity and endurance. Following the fall of Troy, Odysseus sets sail for home. But b...
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£17,99
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Orthokosta A Novel
ISBN: HB: 9780300209990, Yale University Press, July 2016
288 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 2 black&white maps
First published in 1994 to a storm of controversy, Thanassis Valtinos's probing novel Orthokosta defied standard interpretations of the Greek Civil War. Through the documentary-style testimonies of multiple narrators, among them the previously unhear...
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£16,99
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Origins
ISBN: PB: 9783037345979, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
272 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm
"Born too late to see the war and too early to forget it". So writes Reiner Schurmann in "Origins", a startlingly personal account of life as a young man from postwar Germany in the 1960s. Schurmann's semi-autobiographical protagonist is incapable of...
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£17,00
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O, How the Wheel Becomes It! A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780226132792, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
144 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
The first novel Anthony Powell published following the completion of his epic "A Dance to the Music of Time", "O, How the Wheel Becomes It!" fulfills perhaps every author's fantasy as it skewers a conceited, lazy, and dishonest critic. A writer who a...
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£11,50
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Obscurity
ISBN: HB: 9780857423078, Seagull Books, October 2015
160 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
After several years abroad, a young man returns to his hometown to seek the man he calls master. This master, a brilliant philosopher, had made the young man into a disciple before sending him out into the world to put his teachings into practice. Re...
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£19,00
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Old Women
ISBN: PB: 9788170461449, Seagull Books, November 2014
112 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Mahasweta Devi is one of India's foremost literary figures, a prolific and best-selling author in Bengali of short fiction and novels, and a deeply political social activist who has been working in marginalized communities for decades. "Old Women" te...
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£11,50
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