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Manon's World A Hauntology of a Daughter in the Triangle of Alma Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel
ISBN: HB: 9780857427496, Seagull Books, July 2021
324 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Manon Gropius (1916-1935) was the daughter of Alma Mahler, the widow of Gustav Mahler, and the architect Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus, and the stepdaughter of the writer Franz Werfel. In Manon's World, James Reidel explores the life and...
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£21,99
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Mysterious Solidarities
ISBN: HB: 9780857427397, Seagull Books, July 2021
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
When translator Claire Methuen travels back to her hometown of Dinard for a family wedding, she runs into her old piano teacher Madame Ladon. After befriending the ageing woman, Methuen begins to toy with the idea of a permanent return to live in Bri...
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Modern Sovereign The Body of Power in Central Africa (Congo and Gabon)
ISBN: HB: 9780857426888, Seagull Books, March 2021
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The "Modern Sovereign", a notion indebted both to Hobbes's Leviathan and Marx's conception of capital, refers to the power that governed the African multitudes from the earliest colonial days to the post-colonial era. It is an internalized power, res...
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Moor
ISBN: PB: 9780857428332, ISBN: HB: 9780857423689, Seagull Books, March 2021
476 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
It's the early 1970s and Dion Katthusen, thirteen, is growing up fatherless in a small village in northern Germany. An only child plagued with a devastating stutter, Dion is ostracized by his peers and finds solace in the company of nature, collectin...
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Mr Zed's Reflections
ISBN: PB: 9780857428219, ISBN: HB: 9780857422248, Seagull Books, March 2021
144 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Any new book by poet, essayist, writer, and translator Hans Magnus Enzensberger, one of the most influential and internationally renowned German intellectuals, is cause for notice, and "Mr. Zed's Reflections" is no exception. Every afternoon for almo...
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My Father, the Germans and I Essays, Lectures, Interviews
ISBN: PB: 9780857428240, ISBN: HB: 9781906497477, Seagull Books, March 2021
200 pp., 22.9x14 cm
Jurek Becker (1937-1997) is best known for his novel "Jacob the Liar", which follows the life of a man, who, like Becker, lived in the Lodz ghetto during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. Throughout his career, Becker also wrote nonfic...
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Money, Money, Money! A Short Lesson in Economics
ISBN: HB: 9780857427342, Seagull Books, November 2020
184 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
The Federmanns live a pleasant but painfully normal life in the Munich suburbs. All that the three children really know about money is that there's never enough of it in their family.   Every so often, their impish Great-Aunt Fe descends on the city....
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Mr. K Released
ISBN: HB: 9780857426482, Seagull Books, February 2020
280 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Mirroring Romania's drastic transition from totalitarianism to Western-style freedom in the late 1980s, "Mr. K Released" captures the disturbingly surreal feeling that many newly liberated prisoners face when they leave captivity. Employing his trade...
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Monsoon
ISBN: HB: 9780857426956, Seagull Books, February 2020
176 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
An actor of traditional Hindu dramas meets an adolescent girl who turns out to be his half-sister. A man returns to Goa from Mozambique to father a child for a family whose unmarried daughters has produced no heirs. Another man feels out of place in...
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Mydriasis Followed by "To the Icebergs"
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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