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Invitation to the Bold of Heart
ISBN: PB: 9780857426147, Seagull Books, December 2011
152 pp., 12.7x20.3 cm
A fire broke out in the coal seams of their town years ago, and the flames are still smoldering underground. Margaret and Fritzi, the two sisters who are the heroines of "Invitation to the Bold of Heart", the debut novel by Swiss writers Dorothee Elm...
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£12,99
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Totalitarian Experience
ISBN: HB: 9780857420138, Seagull Books, November 2011
64 pp., 14x21 cm
The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the beginning of the collapse of the Soviet Union, as well as many other communist totalitarian regimes around the world. But it would be naive to assume that this historic, symbolic event and its aftermath have com...
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£11,50
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Gentle Monster Brussels or the Disenfranchisement of Europe
ISBN: HB: 9780857420237, Seagull Books, November 2011
64 pp., 10.4x17.7 cm
The inner workings of the European Union are as much a mystery to those living within its confines as they are to those of us who reside elsewhere. The Brussels bureaucracy that sets many of the EU's policies feels remote to its citizens, yet the inf...
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£7,00
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Correspondence
ISBN: HB: 9781906497910, Seagull Books, October 2011
240 pp., 17x10 cm, 15 halftones
Together Max Frisch and Friedrich Durrenmatt are not only two of the most esteemed Swiss writers of the twentieth century, but arguably two of the most important European writers since World War II. The remarkable letters gathered here document their...
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£15,00
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Tale of the Talking Face
ISBN: HB: 9780857420053, Seagull Books, October 2011
48 pp., 28x28 cm, many illus.
In "The Tale of the Talking Face", eminent Indian artist K. G. Subramanyan offers a stinging parable of democracy gone wrong by narrating and illustrating the story of a princess whose autocratic rule brought nothing but suffering to her people, desp...
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£19,00
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War Diary With Letters from Jack Hamesh to Ingeborg Bachmann
ISBN: PB: 9780857425324, ISBN: HB: 9780857420084, Seagull Books, October 2011
112 pp., 10.4x17.7 cm
Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is recognized as one of the most important novelists, poets, and playwrights of postwar German literature. As befitting such a versatile writer, her "War Diary" is not a day-by-day journal but a series of...
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£7,99
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£11,50
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Lyric Novella
ISBN: HB: 9780857420169, Seagull Books, October 2011
120 pp., 12.7x21.6 cm
Annemarie Schwarzenbach – journalist, novelist, antifascist, archaeologist, and traveler – has become a European cult figure for bohemian free spirits since the rediscovery of her works in the late 1980s. "Lyric Novella" is her story of a young man's...
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£11,50
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Conversations Across Borders
ISBN: HB: 9781906497507, Seagull Books, September 2011
452 pp., 19.1x21.6 cm, 35 halftones
For the last fifteen years, performance artist and writer Guillermo Gomez-Pena has led a series of ongoing conversations with cultural luminaries from both North and South America. These dialogues with theorists, curators, activists, and fellow artis...
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£30,00
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My Mother's Lover
ISBN: PB: 9780857425263, Seagull Books, August 2011
130 pp., 20x13 cm
It's Switzerland in the 1920s when the two lovers first meet. She is young, beautiful, and rich. In contrast, he can barely support himself and is interested only in music. By the end of their lives, he is a famous conductor and the richest man in th...
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Nippon Wars and Other Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780857420022, Seagull Books, August 2011
390 pp., 19x15 cm, 20 halftones
"Nippon Wars and Other Plays" provides a unique and fascinating window into the last thirty years of Japan's dynamic theater scene. This collection of plays from renowned Japanese theater artist Takeshi Kawamura gathers together for the first time in...
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£19,00
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