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- Seagull Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 136 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-85742-437-2
EAN 9780857424372
In 1936, Walter Benjamin defined the revolutionary class as being in opposition to a dense and dangerous crowd, prone to fear of the foreign, and under the spell of anti-Semitic madness. Today, in formations great or small, that sad figure returns the hatred of minorities is rekindled and the pied-pipers of the crowd stand triumphant.Class, ...
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- Seagull Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 64 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-85742-548-5
EAN 9780857425485
As the Syrian war has raged over the past several years, the world has watched in horror. And that horror is particularly concentrated on the city of Aleppo, which has been subject to almost incomparable devastation and deprivation.Aleppo is Alice Attie's home city, where her grandparents were born, and with the poems in Under the ...
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December
39 Stories, 39 Pictures
- Seagull Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 118 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-0-85742-444-0
EAN 9780857424440
In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Gerhard Richter have composed December, a collection of thirty-nine stories and thirty-nine snow-swept photographs for the darkest month of the year.In stories drawn from modern history and the contemporary moment, from mythology, and even from ...
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- Seagull Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 720 páginas
ISBN 978-0-85742-377-1
EAN 9780857423771
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-deprecating, ecstatic, and morose as well as an exhaustively detailed account of the first French state-sponsored anthropological expedition to visit ...
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- Seagull Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-85742-330-6
EAN 9780857423306
In recent years, the refugee problem has become impossible to ignore, as multiple crises in the Middle East and Africa have driven thousands of desperate people to attempt Mediterranean crossings in hopes of reaching Europe, and safety. Many have died en route, and those who make it face a far from certain future, as European ...
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- Seagull Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
ISBN 978-0-85742-368-9
EAN 9780857423689
It's the early 1970s and Dion Katthusen, thirteen, is growing up fatherless in a small village in northern Germany. An only child plagued with a devastating stutter, Dion is ostracized by his peers and finds solace in the company of nature, collecting dragonflies in a moor filled with myths and legends. On the precipice of ...
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- Seagull Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 264 páginas
ISBN 978-0-85742-376-4
EAN 9780857423764
Maryse Conde is one of the best-known and most beloved French Caribbean literary voices. The author of more than twenty novels, she was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015 and has long been recognized as a giant of black feminist literature. While Conde has previously published an autobiography of her childhood, What ...
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- Seagull Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 104 páginas
ISBN 978-0-85742-373-3
EAN 9780857423733
In The Red Sofa, we meet Anne, a young woman setting off on the Trans-Siberian Railway in order to find her former lover, Gyl, who left twenty years before. As the train moves across post-Soviet Russia and its devastated landscapes, Anne reflects on her past with Gyl and their patriotic struggles, as well as on ...
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- Seagull Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
ISBN 978-0-85742-393-1
EAN 9780857423931
A man scours the town he left fifty years ago for some modest evidence of past joys. Javed, who has returned to Lahore from East Pakistan, won't speak of what he witnessed in his time away. In her dreams, an old woman boards a train full of dead ancestors. A sage who cannot control his ...
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- Seagull Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
ISBN 978-0-85742-394-8
EAN 9780857423948
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. The final mother to enter the cafe identifies the nineteenth body as her eighteen-year-old son ...
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- Seagull Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-0-85742-395-5
EAN 9780857423955
In the southern Indian state of Kerala, Najeeb's dearest wish is to work in a Persian Gulf country and earn enough money to send some back home. One day, he finally achieves this dream, only to be propelled by a series of incidents grim and absurd into a slave-like existence, herding goats in the middle ...
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- Seagull Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 152 páginas
ISBN 978-0-85742-396-2
EAN 9780857423962
Ruhiton Kurmi has been in jail for seven years. Once a notorious Naxalite a militant leftist revolutionary he is now a withered shell; a man broken by police torture, racked with fevers and sores. The only way he can endure his life is by shutting out the past. But when Ruhiton is moved to a ...
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- Seagull Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 396 páginas
ISBN 978-0-85742-392-4
EAN 9780857423924
Most discussions of India's First War of Independence from British colonial rule in 1857 have centered on the role played by the Mughal emperor, the nawab of Awadh, and other sundry members of mostly urban nobility. What has remained missing from this coverage is how ordinary people across the countryside experienced the rebellion and how ...
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- Seagull Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 104 páginas
PVP: 16,35 €
ISBN 978-0-85742-402-0
EAN 9780857424020
In 1975, when political scientist Benedict Anderson reached Wat Phai Rong Wua, a massive temple complex in rural Thailand conceived by Buddhist monk Luang Phor Khom, he felt he had wandered into a demented Disneyland. One of the world's most bizarre tourist attractions, Wat Phai Rong Wua was designed as a cautionary museum of sorts; ...
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- Seagull Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 88 páginas
ISBN 978-0-85742-401-3
EAN 9780857424013
Behind every image, something has disappeared. And that is the source of its fascination, writes French theorist Jean Baudrillard in Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? In this, one of the last texts written before his death in March 2007, Baudrillard meditates poignantly on the question of disappearance. Throughout, he weaves an intricate set of variations ...
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- Seagull Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-85742-399-3
EAN 9780857423993
April 30, 1945, marked an end of sorts in the Third Reich. The last business day before a national holiday and then a series of transfers of power, April 30 was a day filled with contradictions and bewildering events that would forever define global history. It was on this day that while the Red Army ...
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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 that the poet stumbled upon years later in his attic, the volume is not so much about the man, ...
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- Seagull Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 72 páginas
ISBN 978-0-85742-374-0
EAN 9780857423740
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 overheard, dropped without any possible conclusion each pregnant with half-hidden, half-visible meaning. Limpid, punctuated with silences, the ...
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- Seagull Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
ISBN 978-0-85742-372-6
EAN 9780857423726
Swiss novelist Catherine Colomb is known as one of the most unusual and inventive francophone novelists of the twentieth century. Fascinated by the processes of memory and consciousness, she has been compared to that of Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust. The Spirits of the Earth is the first English translation of Colomb's work and its ...
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