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Caribou Journey

Miller Debbie S.

ISBN: PB: 9781602230965, ISBN: HB: 9781602230972, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2014
32 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 15 colour illus.

An imposing line of caribou stretches for miles across the frozen tundra of Alaska. The sound of clicking hooves echoes through the air as the herd follows its centuries-old migration route. With their thick coats and their padded, shovel-like hooves...

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Of Mice and Mooshaber

Fuks Ladislav

ISBN: HB: 9788024622163, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2014
300 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Ladislav Fuks (1923-1994) was an outstanding Czech writer whose work, consisting primarily of psychological fiction, explores themes of anxiety and life in totalitarian systems. Fuks is be...

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Agents and Patients A Novel

Powell Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780226137353, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud – such are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds...

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From a View to a Death A Novel

Powell Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780226132969, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud – such are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds...

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What's Become of Waring A Novel

Powell Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780226137186, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud – such are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds...

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Personae A Novel

De La Pava Sergio

ISBN: PB: 9780226078991, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure

Sergio De La Pava's "A Naked Singularity" was one of the most highly praised debut novels in decades".The Wall Street Journal" called it "a propulsive, mind-bending experience", and named it one of the ten best books of the year. The "Toronto Star" d...

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Madness of Waiting

Hadi Ruswa Muhammad

ISBN: HB: 9789381017708, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2013
160 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Published in 1899, Muhammad Hadi Ruswa's famous novel, "Umrao Jaan Ada", created a sensation when it came out, with its candid fictionalized account of Umrao Jaan, based on a renowned Lucknow courtesan and poetess of the same name. Considered by many...

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Hot Death A Collection of Stories Old and New

Padmanabhan Manjula

ISBN: PB: 9789381017616, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2013
240 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

From the award-winning writer of the acclaimed play "Harvest", this debut collection of stories will electrify readers with its unusual, radical, and troubling themes. Here are ten tales, some new, some old, and all of them edgy. In biting and satiri...

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Birds of Paradise A Novel

Scott Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226087931, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
296 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Paul Scott is most famous for his much-beloved tetralogy "The Raj Quartet", an epic that chronicles the end of the British rule in India with a cast of vividly and memorably drawn characters. Inspired by Scott's own time spent in India during World W...

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Chinese Love Pavilion A Novel

Scott Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226088433, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
328 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Paul Scott is most famous for his much-beloved tetralogy "The Raj Quartet", an epic that chronicles the end of the British rule in India with a cast of vividly and memorably drawn characters. Inspired by Scott's own time spent in India and Malaya dur...

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