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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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£18,99
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On Tarrying
ISBN: PB: 9780857427243, Seagull Books, September 2019
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Western culture has been marked by deep divisions between action and contemplation, intervention and passivity, and decisiveness and withdrawal. Conceived as radical opposites, these terms structure the history of religion, philosophy, and political...
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£9,99
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Cry in the Snow and Other Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780857425973, Seagull Books, March 2019
120 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Stella Vinitchi Radulescu's poetry dwells in spaces of paradox, seeking out the words, metaphors, and images that capture both the peaceful stillness of snow and the desperate cry of human experience. "A Cry in the Snow" often draws on these two fert...
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£14,99
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Delhi Thaatha A Great Grand Story
ISBN: HB: 9780857425492, Seagull Books, October 2018
48 pp., 21.6x21.6 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
Written for young children, "Delhi Thaatha" is a biography of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, a much-loved teacher and world-renowned philosopher who served as the first vice president of the Republic of India, then, beginning in 1962, president of the...
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£12,99
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Javelin Thrower
ISBN: HB: 9780857425393, Seagull Books, October 2018
288 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
As a boy growing up in rural Italy in the 1930s, Dam?n is experiencing the first stirrings of adolescence when he accidentally sees his mother having sex with the local Fascist commandant. His pain, anger, and confusion are uncomfortably intertwined...
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Essay on Negation Towards a Linguistic Anthropology
ISBN: HB: 9780857424389, Seagull Books, February 2018
232 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
As speaking animals, we continuously make use of an unassuming grammatical particle, without suspecting that what is at work in its inconspicuousness is a powerful apparatus, which orchestrates language, signification, and the world at large. What pa...
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£19,50
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"How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients" and Other Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780857422200, Seagull Books, December 2014
400 pp., 25x15 cm, 24 halftones
Dramatist, poet, novelist, and journalist Matei Visniec, born in Romania and living in France since seeking political asylum in 1987, has been one of the most trenchant voices of Europe, condemning the atrocities of totalitarianism as well as excesse...
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£34,00
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Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories
ISBN: PB: 9780857425881, Seagull Books, February 2012
121 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 22 colour illus.
"Not writing is always a relief and sometimes a pleasure. Writing about what cannot be written, by contrast, is the devil's own job". In this unusual text, a blend of essay, fiction, and literary genealogy, South African novelist Ivan Vladislavic e...
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£11,99
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Winter's Journey Four Conversations with Marianne Brausch
ISBN: HB: 9781906497859, Seagull Books, August 2011
190 pp., 18x11 cm
French cultural theorist and urbanist Paul Virilio is best known for his writings on media, technology, and architecture. Gathered here in "A Winter's Journey" are four remarkable conversations in which Virilio and architectural writer Marianne Braus...
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£19,00
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