art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation

Name your list

Log in / Sign in

ta strona jest nieczynna, ale zapraszamy serdecznie na stronę www.obibook.com /// this website is closed but we cordially invite you to visit www.obibook.com

Elephant in the Room Women Draw Their World
ISBN: HB: 9789385932243, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, May 2018
240 pp., 24.1x19 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
This book brings together sixteen comic artists, all women, from India and Germany to explore how women see the world and themselves, and how that is similar and different across cultures. In the striking, surprising, often funny drawings featured he...
HB:
£26,50
QTY:
Saga of Satisar
ISBN: PB: 9789381017630, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, May 2018
450 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Combining myth, legend, geography, history, and politics, "The Saga of Satisar" is the panoramic history of the Kashmiri Pandits. In it, award-winning Hindi writer Chandrakanta unspools a novel that spans two centuries, illustrating how Kashmiri live...
PB:
£19,00
QTY:
Prisoner No. 100 An Account of My Days and Nights in an Indian Prison
ISBN: HB: 9789385932182, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
248 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
On February 6, 2003, Anjum Zamarud Habib, a young political activist from Kashmir, was arrested in Delhi, convicted under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and sentenced to five years in Delhi's notorious Tihar jail. Her crime? Being in the wrong plac...
HB:
£15,00
QTY:
Women, Peace and Security in Northeast India
ISBN: HB: 9789385932304, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
220 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
In recent decades, the states in the northeast of India have been home to a number of protracted violent conflicts. And while the role of women's movements in responding to conflict and violence tend to be marginalized both by the media and by schola...
HB:
£26,50
QTY:
Motherhood and Choice Feminist Debates on Non-Normative Motherhood
ISBN: HB: 9789385932045, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm
As both the bedrock of human survival and an unchallenged part of the "normal" female life, motherhood expects and even compels women to be mothers – both symbolic and corporeal. Motherhood – and non-motherhood – is not just physiological. As the piv...
HB:
£30,00
QTY:
Search
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...
HB:
£19,00
QTY:
From Cork to Calcutta My Mother's Story
ISBN: PB: 9789384757632, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
320 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Imelda Connor is a classic Irish lass – a fiery, red-headed beauty, quick to anger, and fiercely protective of her younger siblings. Growing up on a small farm in the rolling hills of County Cork, she thinks she has her life completely mapped out. He...
PB:
£19,00
QTY:
New Intimacies, Old Desires Law, Culture and Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times
ISBN: HB: 9789384757748, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
480 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
In the last fifteen years, great strides have been made in advancing the rights of queer people. In the same period that these victories have been secured by queer movements, we've seen the rise of crony capitalism, violent consequences of the war on...
HB:
£26,50
QTY:
Search for Justice The Sri Lanka Papers
ISBN: HB: 9789385932069, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
350 pp., 21.6x14 cm
At the end of a quarter century of conflict, over 100,000 Sri Lankans have died and thousands of survivors have been victims of sexual violence. The subsequent cry for justice cannot be ignored. In "The Search for Justice", a collection of writers an...
HB:
£34,00
QTY:
Feminist Subversion and Complicity Governmentalities and Gender Knowledge in South Asia
ISBN: HB: 9789385932168, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
312 pp., 21.6x14 cm
"Feminist Subversion and Complicity" brings together contributions from women in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and India who, while working at diverse kinds of institutions, are all closely involved in the intersection of development policy...
HB:
£34,00
QTY: