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Paper Collage
ISBN: PB: 9780857428431, ISBN: HB: 9780857422293, Seagull Books, March 2021
200 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm
Should you find yourself strolling along the coastal heights of Douarnenez, a Brittany town near the westernmost point of continental France, you would do well to look out for a signpost marked, "Georges Perros (1923-1978) 'Dazzled by the sea'". Perr...
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What Darkness Was
ISBN: PB: 9780857428325, Seagull Books, March 2021
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Close to death, an old man collapses and struggles to his bed. The sounds of the endless night unsettle him, triggering images, questions, and memories. In What Darkness Was, Inka Parei, author of The Shadow-Boxing Woman, allows the reader to inhabit...
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Within the Sweet Noise of Life Selected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780857427878, Seagull Books, January 2021
120 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Widely considered to be among the most important Italian poets of the twentieth century, Sandro Penna was born and raised in Perugia but spent most of his life in Rome. Openly gay, Penna wrote verses celebrating homosexual love with lyrical elegance....
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Part of the Solution
ISBN: PB: 9780857426338, Seagull Books, March 2019
464 pp., 18x15 cm
It's Berlin in the summer of 2003 – sunshine for weeks on end, weather to fall in love. And that's just what Christian Eich, the main character in Ulrich Peltzer's acclaimed novel "Part of the Solution", does; but that's not all. Christian Eich, a th...
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Life in Peacetime
ISBN: HB: 9780857424822, Seagull Books, March 2019
664 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
When "Life in Peactime" opens, on May 29, 2015, engineer Ivo Brandani is sixty-nine years old. He's disillusioned and angry – but morbidly attached to life. As he makes a day-long trip home from his job in Sharm el Sheik reconstructing the coral reef...
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Memories from the Twentieth Century A Kind of Trilogy
ISBN: PB: 9780857425782, ISBN: HB: 9780857420817, Seagull Books, May 2013
204 pp., 25x15 cm
In these three short books – "Servabo: A Fin De Siecle Memoir", "Miss Kirchgessner", and "The Medlar Tree", collected in one volume in English for the first time – Luigi Pinto retraces a life marked, often in spite of itself, by politics. At once int...
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Shadow-Boxing Woman
ISBN: PB: 9780857425911, Seagull Books, May 2011
179 pp., 22.6x13.7 cm
In "The Shadow-Boxing Woman", a novel from German writer Inka Parei, a decaying apartment building in post-Wall Berlin is home to Hell, a young woman with a passion for martial arts. When Hell's neighbor disappears she sets out across the city in sea...
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Armed Response Plays from South Africa
ISBN: PB: 9781906497071, ISBN: HB: 9781906497088, Seagull Books, March 2009
314 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm
As a phenomenon of history with social, political, cultural implications, the entire "negotiated" experience makes the South African situation unique in both the African and global context. As this phenomenon unfolds, many fascinating new artistic in...
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