Seagull Books

• Author(s): Eva Luka • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: European - GeneralPoems from a new Slovak voice reminiscent of Rilke and Sharon Olds. An evocative collection by Sl...

• Author(s): Annemarie Schwarzenbach • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: European - GeneralSchwarzenbach's clear, psychologically acute prose makes this novella an evocative narrative, with many intriguing paral...

• Author(s): Ilse Aichinger • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)A moving work of fiction from one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature. Born in 19...

• Author(s): Urs Widmer • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: LiteraryA magnificent example of Widmer's characteristic humor, literary genius, and unparalleled imagination. In the wildly entertaining novel The B...

• Author(s): Andrew Graham-yooll • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralWho Do You Think You Are? is a powerful and startling look at our ideas of huma...

• Author(s): Francois Jullien • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryIn This Strange Idea of the Beautiful, Fran ois Jullien explores what it means when we say something is beautiful. Bringing toget...

• Author(s): Mahasweta Devi • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Historical - GeneralLakshmibai, the Queen of Jhansi, a legendary Indian heroine, led her troops against the British i...

• Author(s): El Wardany | Haytham • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull • BISAC: PoliticalWhat is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states--metaphorically called death's shadow or considered the very pinnacle of ind...

• Author(s): Kamila Shasmie • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Islam - TheologyIn recent years, countless politicians and commentators have been addressing the Quran in a...

• Author(s): Prabuddha Dasgupta • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull • BISAC: PhotojournalismLocated on the west coast of India along the Arabian Sea, Goa officially became an Indian state in 1987 after nearly 500 years of Port...

• Author(s): Thomas espedal • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - GeneralIn contemporary Norwegian fiction Tomas Espedal's work stands out as uniquely personal; it can be d...

• Author(s): Giorgio Agamben • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralGiorgio Agamben tackles our crisis-ridden world in a series of powerful philosophical essays. "Which house is burning?" asks Giorgio Agamb...

• Author(s): Sudipto Pal • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: LGBTQ+ - GayA gay novel in which the rural landscapes of Bengal set the stage for a story that transcends the boundaries of tradition and love. Malla...

• Author(s): Pascal Quignard • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralA prolific essayist, novelist, translator, philosopher, and a critic of rare elegance, Pascal Quignard returns anew to the major questions ...

• Author(s): Yves Bonnefoy • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: LiteraryAn intensely personal and profoundly moving review of Bonnefoy's childhood memories. In December 2015, six months before his death at the a...

• Author(s): Abul Bashar • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralThe Open-Winged Scorpion and Other Stories is a collection of ten powerful Bengali short stories, all translated into English for the first tim...

• Author(s): Tzvetan Todorov • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Art & PoliticsTzvetan Todorov, one of Europe's leading intellectuals, explores the complex relations between art...

• Author(s): Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: LiteraryOriginally published between 1910 and 1917, and collected in book form in 1923, The Epic of Damarudhar story cycle occupies an ...

• Author(s): Philippe Jaccottet • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: European - FrenchSince his first collection of poetry appeared in 1953, Philippe Jaccottet has sought to express the ineffable that lies at the...

• Author(s): Phlippe Jaccottet • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Literary FiguresWriters' notebooks sometimes prove more revelatory than diaries or intimate journals. At first they might appear to be rag-and-b...

• Author(s): Rajeev Bhargav • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: World - AsianAn original analysis of religion versus the religionization of society in India. What is unique about Indian secularism? In this book...

• Author(s): Philippe Jaccottet • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralPhilippe Jaccottet's newest work follows in some ways the approach of Seedtime, his recent two-volume collection of notebooks. Similarly...

• Author(s): Christa Wolf • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Literary FiguresDuring a 1960 interview, East German writer Christa Wolf was asked a curious question: would she describe in detail what she did on S...

• Author(s): Santiago Loza • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Caribbean & Latin AmericanThe first anthology of Latin American drama to uniquely focus on the important Argentine dramatist, Santiago Loza. "No...

• Author(s): Pascal Quignard • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: LiteraryWhen translator Claire Methuen travels back to her hometown of Dinard for a family wedding, she runs into her old piano teacher Madame Lad...

• Author(s): Hedi Kaddour • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: LiteraryLondon between the wars was a place of anxiety and uncertainty. After the postwar boom of the 1920s, the aftereffects of the stock market cra...

• Author(s): Francesco Pecoraro • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralWhen Life in Peactime opens, on May 29, 2015, engineer Ivo Brandani is sixty-nine years old. He's disillusioned and angry--but morbidly ...

• Author(s): Krishna Kumar • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: HistoryThis essay examines the history of the Indian subcontinent and the Partition of 1947 from a pedagogical perspective. How does education shap...

• Author(s): Christa Wolf • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: LiteraryA fragmentary work that stands as a testament to Wolf's skill as a thinker, storyteller, and memorializer of humanity's greatest struggles. ...

• Author(s): Khal Torabully • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralCargo Hold of Stars is an ode to the forgotten voyage of a forgotten people. Khal Torabully gives voice to the millions of indentured men an...

• Author(s): Gustave Roud • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralGustave Roud, perhaps the most beloved poet of Swiss Romandy, is widely considered the founder of modern francophone Swiss literature, along w...

• Author(s): Durs Grünbein • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralA book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Grünbein's ho...

• Author(s): Deepa Sreenivas • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Minority StudiesAn accessible cultural and literary critique of the right wing in India. How does orthodoxy maintain its power over culture? In R...

• Author(s): Tomas Espedal • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralA novel of intersecting historical threads. Love narrates celebrated Norwegian writer Tomas Espedal's search for death. The decision blossoms...

• Author(s): Robert Walser • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: European - GermanThis book brings English-language readers works by Walser in a rare form: dramolette. Few writers have ever experienced such a ste...

• Author(s): Gábor Vida • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralA novel of growing up a Hungarian in Romania under Communism. In the novel Story of a Stammer, Gábor Vida asks a fundamental question: Where d...

• Author(s): Herta Müller • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: European - GermanAn unexpected, exciting work from one of the most protean writers ever to win the Nobel Prize. To create the poems in this collecti...

• Author(s): Philippe Jaccottet • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: European - FrenchThe last works of the last great classic European poet now available in English. In his 96th and final year, and with the hel...

• Author(s): Jana Bodnárová • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralAn engrossing novel about the lives in a small Slovak town during the tumultuous twentieth century. In this highly acclaimed novel, Jana Bo...

• Author(s): Alois Hotschnig • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: LiteraryWhen Kurt Weber inherits his great-uncle's lakeside house, he finds traces of the dark secrets of his family's past. The early inhabitants...

• Author(s): Urs Widmer • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralKuno, a male nurse in a Swiss retirement home, has a new inmate: his father. In the confines of their new home, the pair does something surprisi...

• Author(s): Elsa Morante • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: European - ItalianA representative text of a milieu marked by student protests and aspirations for moral and political renewal. First published in ...

• Author(s): Arzu Ozturkmen • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismThe first comprehensive study of dizi, a television genre unique to Turkey akin to soap opera or telenovela. ...

• Author(s): Friederike Mayrocker • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralA diary-like sequence of poems from one of Austria's best-known contemporary voices. Exploring longing, lust for life, aging, mortali...

• Author(s): Navid Kermani • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralA romantic novel like no other. A writer has penned a novel about the great love of his youth. After a public reading, he is approached by a...

• Author(s): Thorvald Steen • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralThis creative, beautifully constructed novel reimagines the final days of this Icelandic hero, providing a wonderful new perspective on the ...

• Author(s): Peter J. Chelkowski • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Islam - Shi'aExploring the social, political, cultural, artistic, and religious significance of Muharram rituals for millions of global observ...

• Author(s): Chitvan Gill • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe story of the people of Buland Masjid, a community of migrants in Delhi. In Dreaming a Paradise, Chitvan Gill...

• Author(s): Romila Thapar • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralOne of India's preeminent historians examines the role of history in contemporary society. Every society has its cultures: pa...

• Author(s): Annemarie Schwarzenbach • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: LiterarySince the rediscovery of her work in the late 1980s, Annemarie Schwarzenbach--journalist, traveler, archaeologist, opium addict, a...

• Author(s): Michael Krüger • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralNow in paperback, a comic and moving collection of stories of grumpy old men who start to find unexpected connections with the world. The t...