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Akhtar Shaheen

ISBN: HB: 9789385932298, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
360 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Twenty-five long years after the war that was supposed to liberate Bangladesh – and that instead, for far too many people, merely brought fear, violence, and loss – a young researcher arrives on the doorstep of one survivor in Dhaka, Mariam, armed wi...

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Season of the Shadow

Miano Leonora

ISBN: HB: 9780857424808, Seagull Books, February 2018
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

This powerful novel presents the early days of the transatlantic slave trade from a new perspective: that of the sub-Saharan population that became its first victims. Cameroonian novelist Leonora Miano presents a world on the brink of disappearing –...

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Seal Named Patches

Beltran Roxanne, Robinson Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9781602233317, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2017
40 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 39 colour plates

Scientists Roxanne Beltran and Patrick Robinson set off on a polar adventure, traveling to Antarctica to study the lives of Weddell seals. By finding Patches, a wily seal they've been tracking since its birth, they'll be able to learn a lot about ho...

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Safe House A Novel

Boltanski Christophe

ISBN: HB: 9780226449197, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 10 halftones

In Paris's exclusive Saint-Germain neighborhood is a mansion. In that mansion lives a family. Deep in that mansion. The Bolts are that family, and they have secrets".The Safe House" tells their story. When the Nazis came, Etienne Boltanski divorce...

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Such Fine Boys

Modiano Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300223347, Yale University Press, September 2017
208 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

As a boarding school student in the early 1960s, Patrick Modiano lived among the troubled teenage sons of wealthy but self-involved parents. In this mesmerizing novel, Modiano weaves together a series of exquisitely crafted stories about such jettiso...

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Sundays in August

Modiano Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300223330, Yale University Press, September 2017
168 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers, unregistered addresses, people gone missing, shadowy figures disappearing in crowds, newspaper stories uncomfortably close and getting closer... this ominous novel is Patrick Modiano's most no...

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Summer of Caprice

Vancura Vladislav

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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Saturnin

Jirotka Zdenek

ISBN: PB: 9788024632889, ISBN: HB: 9788024606835, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
263 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best seller, its gentle satire offering an unexpected – if temporary – reprieve from the grim reality of the German occupation....

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Seven Days in August

Bildoen Brit

ISBN: HB: 9780857423825, Seagull Books, November 2016
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

A few years after the deadly 2011 terror attack in Norway's Utoya Island, Otto and Sofie are attempting to put the pieces of their life back together without their beloved daughter, who was murdered alongside countless other youths on one of the wors...

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Shanghai Intrigue

Koyama Michael S.

ISBN: HB: 9780857423832, Seagull Books, November 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

When a Chinese American intelligence officer at the US Embassy in Beijing intercepts complex coded messages, the race is on to decipher their meaning. When she finally succeeds in decoding them, the messages seem to indicate a targeted assault on the...

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