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Espedal Tomas

ISBN: HB: 9780857428509, Seagull Books, July 2021
212 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In contemporary Norwegian fiction, Tomas Espedal's work stands out as uniquely bound up with the author's personal experiences. His first book, Tramp, introduced us to the wanderer Tomas; Against Art told us how a boy approaches art and eventually be...

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Yankinton

Shihor Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9780857427960, Seagull Books, March 2021
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Set in the early days of the Jewish state, "Yankinton" tells the stories of refugees from the Holocaust and antisemitism who struggled to build new lives in Israel. Through the eyes of a young Orthodox Jewish girl growing up in Tel Aviv, we watch a c...

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Young Men and Fire Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

Maclean Norman

ISBN: PB: 9780226450353, ISBN: HB: 9780226475455, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
352 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones, 6 line drawings

A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, "Young Men and Fire" describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fir...

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Young Light

Rothmann Ralf

ISBN: HB: 9781906497545, Seagull Books, September 2010
298 pp., 21.1x14 cm

In "First Light", novelist Ralf Rothmann paints a delicate portrait of a twelve-year-old boy named Julian growing up in a mining community in 1960s Germany. The book covers only a few summer weeks, following Julian's gradual social and sexual awakeni...

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Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners for Use in Educational Establishments

Louys Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9780984115518, DAP, Wakefield Press, February 2010
76 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! A bestselling author in his time, Pierre Louys (1870-1925) was a friend of, and influence on, Andre Gide, Paul Valery, Oscar Wilde and Stephane Mallarme among others. He achieved instant notoriety with "Aphrodite" and "The...

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Youth Without Youth

Eliade Mircea

ISBN: PB: 9780226204154, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
140 pp., 20x14 cm

Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the Iron Guard. Meanwhile, a man who has spent his life studying languages, poetry, and history – a man who thought his li...

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