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The Africa List

Culture and Liberation Exile Writings, 1966-1985

La Guma Alex

ISBN: HB: 9780857427892, Seagull Books, March 2021
624 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

One of South Africa's best-known writers during the apartheid era, Alex La Guma was a lifelong activist and a member of the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress. Persecuted and imprisoned by the South African regime in the...

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Anthropology

The Africa List

Phantom Africa

Leiris Michel

ISBN: PB: 9780857427007, ISBN: HB: 9780857423771, Seagull Books, February 2020
720 pp., 22.8x19 cm, 37 halftones, 3 facsimiles

One of the towering classics of twentieth century French literature, "Phantom Africa" is a singular and ultimately unclassifiable work: a book composed of one man's compulsive and constantly mutating daily travel journal – by turns melodramatic, self...

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Literary Criticism

The French List

Mydriasis Followed by "To the Icebergs"

Le Clezio J. M. G.

ISBN: HB: 9780857426543, Seagull Books, September 2019
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

While presenting the Nobel Prize in Literature to J. M. G. Le Clezio in 2008, the Nobel Committee called him the "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization". In M...

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Fiction

The German List

Apostoloff

Lewitscharoff Sibylle

ISBN: PB: 9780857427199, Seagull Books, September 2019
288 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

"Gone, finito, The End, I say. A father who puts an end to it all before he wears down the whole family deserves more praise than damnation". Two sisters travel to Sofia – in a convoy of luxury limousines arranged by a fellow Bulgarian exile – to...

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Fiction

The Swiss List

My Mother's Tears

Layaz Michel

ISBN: HB: 9780857426529, Seagull Books, May 2019
192 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

With subtle, bemused humor and an unerring eye for human frailty, Michel Layaz writes about the hidden tensions within families, the awkwardness of adolescence, and the drama of intimacy between friends and lovers. His fifth novel, "My Mother's Tears...

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Fiction

The German List

September Mirage

Lehr Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780857426321, ISBN: HB: 9780857420787, Seagull Books, March 2019
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Two fathers with two daughters: Martin, professor of German, writes but is studying Earth Sciences at MIT; Tariq, a doctor in Baghdad and Muna, is studying the archaeology of a region that is seen as the cradle of civilization. These two parallel rel...

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Literary Criticism

Biography & Memoires

All the Land

Lendle Jo

ISBN: HB: 9780857426062, Seagull Books, March 2019
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

How, in 1930, did Alfred Wegener, the son of minister from Berlin, find himself in the most isolated spot on earth, attempting to survive an unthinkably cold winter in the middle of Greenland? In "All the Land", Jo Lendle sets out to chronicle Wegene...

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Fiction

The German List

Last Country

Leiber Svenja

ISBN: HB: 9780857424310, Seagull Books, February 2018
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"Ruven Preuk stands apart from the village, on an August day in 1911, and listens". Thus begins an epic bildungsroman about the life of Ruven Preuk, son of the wainwright, child of a sleepy village in Germany's north, where life is both simple and ha...

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Fiction

The French List

Red Sofa

Lesbre Michele

ISBN: HB: 9780857423733, Seagull Books, March 2017
104 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In "The Red Sofa", we meet Anne, a young woman setting off on the Trans-Siberian Railway in order to find her former lover, Gyl, who left twenty years before. As the train moves across post-Soviet Russia and its devastated landscapes, Anne reflects o...

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Fiction

The German List

Blumenberg

Lewitscharoff Sibylle

ISBN: HB: 9780857423696, Seagull Books, December 2016
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

One night, German philosopher Hans Blumenberg returns to his study to find a shocking sight – a lion lying on the floor as if it's the most natural thing in the world. The lion stretches comfortably on the Turkmen rug, eyes resting on Blumenberg. The...

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