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Blumenberg
ISBN: HB: 9780857423696, Seagull Books, December 2016
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
One night, German philosopher Hans Blumenberg returns to his study to find a shocking sight – a lion lying on the floor as if it's the most natural thing in the world. The lion stretches comfortably on the Turkmen rug, eyes resting on Blumenberg. The...
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£18,50
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"Things That Happen" and Other Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780857423894, Seagull Books, November 2016
136 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Bhaskar Chakrabarti's poetry is synonymous with the romantic melancholia inherent to Calcutta. His trenchant poetic voice was one of the most significant to emerge in the 1960s and '70s – perhaps the most prolific period of modern Bengali poetry. Spa...
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"World Saved by Kids" and Other Epics
ISBN: HB: 9780857423795, Seagull Books, November 2016
264 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 1 halftone
First published in Italian in 1968, "The World Saved by Kids" was written in the aftermath of deep personal change and in the context of what Elsa Morante called the "great youth movement exploding against the funereal machinations of the organized c...
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Seven Days in August
ISBN: HB: 9780857423825, Seagull Books, November 2016
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
A few years after the deadly 2011 terror attack in Norway's Utoya Island, Otto and Sofie are attempting to put the pieces of their life back together without their beloved daughter, who was murdered alongside countless other youths on one of the wors...
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Shanghai Intrigue
ISBN: HB: 9780857423832, Seagull Books, November 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
When a Chinese American intelligence officer at the US Embassy in Beijing intercepts complex coded messages, the race is on to decipher their meaning. When she finally succeeds in decoding them, the messages seem to indicate a targeted assault on the...
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£22,50
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Chemmeen
ISBN: HB: 9780857423917, Seagull Books, November 2016
264 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"Chemmeen" tells the story of the relationship between Karutthamma, a Hindu woman from the fisherfolk community, and Pareekkutty, the son of a Muslim fish wholesaler. Unable to marry Pareekkutty for religious reasons, Karutthamma instead marries Pala...
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£17,00
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China Sketchbook
ISBN: HB: 9780857423979, Seagull Books, November 2016
136 pp., 19.7x14 cm, 125 line drawings
A camera makes enemies; a sketchbook, friends. Firm in this belief, Irwin Allan Sealy carried to China just his pen and a book of blank pages. When the literary conference that took him there ended and his fellow writers returned to India, Sealy stay...
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Empty Space
ISBN: HB: 9780857423948, Seagull Books, November 2016
272 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
When a bomb explodes in a university cafe, nineteen students are killed. "The Empty Space" begins with the identification of these slain students. Slowly, each individual is claimed and taken away for a proper burial by their mourning family members....
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Tumult
ISBN: HB: 9780857423702, Seagull Books, November 2016
296 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, widely regarded as Germany's greatest living poet, was already well known in the 1960s, the tempestuous decade of which "Tumult" is an autobiographical record. Derived from old papers, notes, jottings, photos, and letters th...
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Ursa Major
ISBN: HB: 9780857423740, Seagull Books, November 2016
72 pp., 19.7x14 cm
Yves Bonnefoy is one of the greatest living voices of contemporary French poetry. In this, his sixth book published by Seagull Books, he explores in profound new ways the mysteries of human consciousness. Readers find snatches of conversations – over...
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£14,50
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