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The Screams of War

Akram Alkatreb

• Paperback | Engels | Arab List
• Lyrical and powerful poems that serve as a powerful reminder of the human cost of war. "Those who believe in the currency of patience / Were burned ou... Lees meer

MR Zed's Reflections

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

• Paperback | Engels | The Seagull Library of German Literature
• Any new book by poet, essayist, writer, and translator Hans Magnus Enzensberger, one of the most influential and internationally renowned German intel... Lees meer

Reimagining Indian Secularism

Rajeev Bhargava

• Hardcover | Engels | History for Peace
• An original analysis of religion versus the religionization of society in India. What is unique about Indian secularism? In this book, Rajeev Bhargava... Lees meer

The Beloved of the Dawn

Franz Fühmann

• Hardcover | Engels | German List
• Four classical Greek myths retold with unexpected twists by an East German dissident. Franz Fühmann's subversive retellings of four Greek legends were... Lees meer

Living Translation

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

• Paperback | Engels
• A collection that brings together Spivak's wide-ranging writings on translation for the first time. Living Translation offers a powerful perspective o... Lees meer

What Darkness Was

Inka Parei

• Paperback | Engels | The Seagull Library of German Literature
• Close to death, an old man collapses and struggles to his bed. The sounds of the endless night unsettle him, triggering images, questions, and memorie... Lees meer

Blumenberg

Sibylle Lewitscharoff

• Paperback | Engels | German List
• Now in paperback, from one of the most dazzling authors of contemporary German literature comes this delightful tale of a philosopher and his encounte... Lees meer

Études

Friederike Mayröcker

• Hardcover | Engels | German List
• A diary-like sequence of poems from one of Austria's best-known contemporary voices. Exploring longing, lust for life, aging, mortality, grief, and fl... Lees meer

Armed Response

• Hardcover | Engels | In Performance
• As a phenomenon of history with social, political, cultural implications, the entire 'negotiated' experience makes the South African situation unique ... Lees meer

Tamangur

Leta Semadeni

• Hardcover | Engels | Swiss List
• A hauntingly beautiful debut novel that interweaves grief, memory, and the mystical realm of an ancient forest through eighty-four poignant vignettes.... Lees meer

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Vsevolod Pudovkin

• Hardcover | Engels
• Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893-1953) was one of the leading Soviet film directors in the 'golden age' of silent cinema in the 1920s. His films - especially T... Lees meer

Global Foreigners

Saviana Stanescu

• Hardcover | Engels | Enactments
• In Waxing West, Daniella, newly arrived in the US from Romania, is haunted by the ghosts of the deposed dictator Ceausescu and his wife Elena until sh... Lees meer

Anarchy's Brief Summer

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

• Paperback | Engels | The Seagull Library of German Literature
• A unique portrait of a revolutionary movement that is largely unknown outside Spain. Northern Spain is the only part of Western Europe where anarchism... Lees meer

Singing Emptiness

Linda Hess

• Paperback | Engels | Enactments
• Now in paperback, the journey of a great Hindustani classical vocalist's search for the voice of emptiness. Here, two men, five centuries apart, make ... Lees meer

The First Line

Jean-Marie Laclavetine

• Hardcover | Engels | French List
• A sharp, witty send-up of the literary world, set in the world of book publishing--a must-read for anyone who's ever dreamt of (or dreaded) getting pu... Lees meer

Of Matters Modern

Debraj Bhattacharya

• Hardcover | Engels
• Of matters Modern analyses the experience of modernity in South Asia. Arguing that South Asia´s experience of modernity has to be understood in a glob... Lees meer

Truth/Untruth

Mahasweta Devi

• Hardcover | Engels | India List
• A trenchant, darkly humorous, and unsentimental look at Calcutta society. Set in Calcutta in the mid-1980s, Truth/Untruth is a fast-paced thriller bui... Lees meer

Anyone Who Utters a Consoling Word Is a Traitor

Alexander Kluge

• Paperback | Engels | The Seagull Library of German Literature
• A book about bitter fates--both already known and yet to unfold--and the many kinds of organized machinery built to destroy people. Alexander Kluge's ... Lees meer

The Philosophy of Living

François Jullien

• Paperback | Engels | The Seagull Library of French Literature
• This volume asks poignant questions about what it means to be alive and inhabit the present. Living holds us between two places. It expresses what is ... Lees meer

Indian Cultures as Heritage

Romila Thapar

• Hardcover | Engels | India List
• One of India's preeminent historians examines the role of history in contemporary society. Every society has its cultures: patterns of how people live... Lees meer

Hölderlin's Madness

Giorgio Agamben

• Hardcover | Engels | Italian List
• One of Europe's greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe's greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin. What... Lees meer

Firefly

Jabbour Douaihy

• Hardcover | Engels | Arab List
• A powerful novel of a young man living between Muslim and Christian worlds amid the Lebanese Civil War. Firefly paints a searing portrait of the city ... Lees meer

Remaking the Citizen for New Times

Deepa Sreenivas

• Hardcover | Engels | History for Peace
• An accessible cultural and literary critique of the right wing in India. How does orthodoxy maintain its power over culture? In Remaking the Citizen f... Lees meer

Eleven-Inch

Michal Witkowski

• Hardcover | Engels | The Pride List
• What does it take to succeed as a queer teenage Eastern European sex worker in the 1990s? Eleven inches and a ruthless attitude. Western Europe, short... Lees meer