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Doing
ISBN: HB: 9780857427847, Seagull Books, December 2020
132 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "Doing", Jean-Luc Nancy, one of the most prominent and lucid articulators of contemporary French theory and philosophy, examines the precarious but urgent relationship between being and doing. His book is not so much a call to action as a summons...
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£14,99
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Land Like You
ISBN: HB: 9780857427885, Seagull Books, December 2020
340 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Cairo 1925, Haret al-Yahud, the old Jewish Quarter. Esther, a beautiful young woman believed to be possessed by demons, longs to give birth after seven blissful years of marriage. Her husband, blind since childhood, does not object when, in her effor...
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£21,99
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Monk's Eye
ISBN: HB: 9780857425478, Seagull Books, October 2018
63 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Cees Nooteboom wrote the poems that make up "Monk's Eye" on two islands: he began them on the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog and finished them on the Spanish island of Minorca, where he has spent summers for decades. The poems – which can be read in...
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Mokusei! A Love Story
ISBN: HB: 9780857424846, Seagull Books, October 2017
64 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Two men talk in Tokyo. One, a Belgian, is a diplomat. The other, Dutch, is a photographer. What, they wonder, is the real face of Japan? How can they get beyond the European idea of the nation and its people – with its exoticism – and see Japan as it...
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Gathering the Ashes
ISBN: HB: 9780857423924, Seagull Books, November 2016
396 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 8 halftones
Most discussions of India's First War of Independence from British colonial rule in 1857 have centered on the role played by the Mughal emperor, the nawab of Awadh, and other sundry members of mostly urban nobility. What has remained missing from thi...
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Cage in Search of a Bird
ISBN: HB: 9780857423757, Seagull Books, September 2016
144 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Laura Wilmote is a television journalist living in Paris. Her life couldn't be better – a stimulating job, a loving boyfriend, interesting friends – until her phone rings in the middle of one night. It is C., an old school friend whom Laura recently...
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Attachment
ISBN: HB: 9780857422330, Seagull Books, April 2015
128 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
When Anna discovers a long letter that her mother Marie wrote, Marie has been dead for some time, and Anna is shocked to learn that her mother disappeared with a secret. The letter is addressed to Marie's first great love, a much older teacher who sh...
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Fly Away, Pigeon
ISBN: HB: 9780857422125, Seagull Books, November 2014
212 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Fly Away, Pigeon" tells the heart-wrenching story of a family torn between emigration and immigration and paints evocative portraits of the former Yugoslavia and modern-day Switzerland.  In this novel, Melinda Nadj Abonji interweaves two narrative s...
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Listening to the Loom Essays on Literature, Politics and Violence
ISBN: HB: 9780857421920, Seagull Books, February 2014
392 pp., 21.6x14 cm
"Listening to the Loom" brings to light a previously unknown body of ideas and essays from renowned Indian Dalit scholar D. R. Nagaraj, representing his most important writings on literature, politics, and violence. Comprised of thirteen pieces – the...
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Light Everywhere Selected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780857421852, Seagull Books, February 2014
194 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Cees Nooteboom is best known in the English-speaking world for his acclaimed novels, essays, and travel writing; however, Nooteboom has always seen himself first and foremost as a poet. He has said, "without poetry my life would be unthinkable". "Lig...
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