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Poetry

The French List

Invitation to the Voyage Selected Poems and Prose

Baudelaire Charles

ISBN: HB: 9780857425386, Seagull Books, February 2020
200 pp., 21.5x12.7 cm

"Baudelaire is indeed the greatest exemplar in modern poetry in any language", said T. S. Eliot. We experience Baudelaire in myriad ways through his multifaceted writing. His sensuous poems – dreams of escape to an impossible, preferably tropical, el...

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Fiction

The India List

Monsoon

Devi Vimala

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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Biography & Memoires

The Africa List

Of Morsels and Marvels

Conde Maryse

ISBN: HB: 9780857426932, Seagull Books, February 2020
324 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

For many, cooking is simply the mechanical act of reproducing standard recipes. To Maryse Conde, however, cooking implies creativity and personal invention, on par with the complexity of writing a story. A cook, she explains, uses spices and flavors...

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Anthropology

The Africa List

Phantom Africa

Leiris Michel

ISBN: PB: 9780857427007, ISBN: HB: 9780857423771, Seagull Books, February 2020
720 pp., 22.8x19 cm, 37 halftones, 3 facsimiles

One of the towering classics of twentieth century French literature, "Phantom Africa" is a singular and ultimately unclassifiable work: a book composed of one man's compulsive and constantly mutating daily travel journal – by turns melodramatic, self...

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Fiction

The Swiss List

Soutine's Last Journey

Dutli Ralph

ISBN: HB: 9780857426925, Seagull Books, February 2020
292 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

August 6, 1943. Chaim Soutine, a Jewish painter from Belorussia and a contemporary of Chagall, Modigliani, and Picasso, is hidden in a hearse that's traveling from a small town on the Loire towards Nazi-occupied Paris. Suffering from a stomach ulcer,...

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Fiction

Writing Places Texts, Rhythms, Images

Sinha Arunava

ISBN: PB: 9780857427328, Seagull Books, January 2020
240 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 72 colour plates

There are many ways to travel between India and the UK in general, and Calcutta and Norwich in particular. You could take a plane and then the bus or the train, or perhaps a taxi. You could even sail. But what if you traveled via literature instead?...

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Fiction

The German List

Dispatches from Moments of Calm

Kluge Alexander, Richter Gerhard

ISBN: PB: 9780857427021, ISBN: HB: 9780857423283, Seagull Books, October 2019
192 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 64 colour plates

On October 5, 2012, the German national newspaper Die Welt published its daily issue – but things looked... different. Quieter. The sensations of the day, forgotten as soon as they're read, were missing, replaced with an unprecedented calm, extracted...

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Fiction

The India List

Is It the Same for You?

Singh Neha

ISBN: HB: 9780857426963, Seagull Books, October 2019
24 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 10 colour plates

"The day they found my brother with a blood stain, I found one on my kurta too, but no one noticed my blood stain". Thus begins the story of a young girl in Kashmir as she goes through the turbulence of adolescence in her conflict-ridden world. While...

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Performing Arts

The German List

Three Plays "Rechnitz", "The Merchant's Contracts", "Charges (The Supplicants)"

Jelinek Elfriede

ISBN: PB: 9780857427120, Seagull Books, October 2019
480 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

For much of her career, Elfriede Jelinek has been maligned in the press for both her unrelenting critique of Austrian complicity in the Holocaust and her provocative deconstructions of pornography. Despite this, her central role in shaping contempora...

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Contemporary Art

Literary Criticism

Anselm Kiefer in Conversation with Klaus Dermutz

Kiefer Anselm, Dermutz Klaus

ISBN: HB: 9780857426031, Seagull Books, September 2019
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 34 colour plates

"I think in pictures. Poems help me with this. They are like buoys in the sea. I swim to them, from one to the other. In between, without them, I am lost. They are the handholds where something masses together in the infinite expanse" – Anselm Kiefer...

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