Seagull Books

• Author(s): Fuhmann | Franz • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: GeneralWhen a young reader once asked Franz Fuhmann if he considered his work to be Science fiction, he was quick to deny...

• Author(s): Volponi | Paolo • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryAs a boy growing up in rural Italy in the 1930s, Daman is experiencing the first stirrings of adolescence wh...

• Author(s): Saaf | Abdallah • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: GeneralOn the eve of the 2007 general elections in Morocco, writer, academic, and former cabinet minister ...

• Author(s): Jaccottet | Philippe • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: GeneralIn these times of heart-breaking violence, clashing religions and a seemingly never-ending narrative of dicho...

• Author(s): Lendle | Jo • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: GeneralHow, in 1930, did Alfred Wegener, the son of minister from Berlin, find himself in the most isolated spot ...

• Author(s): Kluge | Alexander • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralNo human quality is more necessary for survival than love. But while love has the power to lift us up with ...

• Author(s): Lerman Anthony • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Psychotherapy - GeneralIn this collection of conversations that were conducted in Calcutta, at the London School...

• Author(s): Mohsen Makhmalbaf • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing ArtsBorn in Tehran in 1957, filmmaker Mohsen Ostad Ali Makhmalbaf grew up i...

• Author(s): Peter Handke • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: GeneralPeter Handke, a giant of Austrian literature, has produced decades of fiction, poetry and drama informed by some of t...

• Author(s): Elmiger Dorothee • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - GeneralA fire broke out in the coal seams of their town years ago, and the flames are still smoldering u...

• Author(s): Haq | Syed Shamsul • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: Cultural HeritageBangladesh in 1971 showed vividly and terribly, the deadly effects of war. Piles of corps...

• Author(s): Hasan Azizul Huq • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: GeneralHasan Azizul Huq is known for his stories that bring a powerful social consciousness to bear on the l...

• Author(s): Banaphool • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: GeneralBanaphool which means wildflower was the pen name of beloved Bengali writer Balaichand Mukhopadhyay (1899–19...

• Author(s): Walser | Robert • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: GeneralFew writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Swiss ...

• Author(s): Tariq Ali • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Family Life - GeneralIn this novel from esteemed political writer Tariq Ali, a father, Vlady, loses his job when he refuse...

• Author(s): Peltzer Ulrich • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralIt’s Berlin in the summer of 2003 sunshine for weeks on end, weather to fall in love. And that’s just what Chr...

• Author(s): Silke Scheuermann • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralA young woman who has been living abroad returns to her hometown of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Her siste...

• Author(s): Abdourahman a waberi • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralThe poems in this new volume by Abdourahman A. Waberi are introspective and inquisitive, reflecting a de...

• Author(s): Yasser Abdellatif • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryThis lyrical novel tells the story of a young man living in Egypt in the 1990s, a time of great turmoil. W...

• Author(s): Mayrocker | Friederike • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralAustrian poet and playwright Ernst Jandl died in 2000, leaving behind his partner, poet Friederike May...

• Author(s): Sandig | Ulrike Almut • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralThe poems of Ulrike Almut Sandig are at once simple and fantastic. This new collection finds her on her...

• Author(s): Ghassan Zaqtan • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryThis lyrical novel, set in the surroundings of the Palestinian village of Zakariyya, weaves a narrative rich ...

• Author(s): Blumenberg | Hans • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernFor distinguished philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession...

• Author(s): Wolf | Christa • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryChrista Wolf tried for years to find a way to write about her childhood in Nazi Germany. In her 1976 book Pat...

• Author(s): Enzensberger | Hans Magnus • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: GeneralHans Magnus Enzensberger takes the title for this collection of daring short essays on topical themes p...

• Author(s): Arwa Salih • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: World - Middle EasternArwa Salih was a member of the political bureau of the Egyptian Communist Workers Party, wh...

• Author(s): Paolo Virno • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - ItalianAs speaking animals, we continuously make use of an unassuming grammatical particle, without suspectin...

• Author(s): Salah Al Hamdani • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: GeneralIraqi poet Salah Al Hamdani has lived a remarkable life. The author of some forty books in French an...

• Author(s): Quignard | Pascal • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: GeneralMusician Ann Hidden suspects her partner, Thomas, isn’t telling her everything. So one dark night, she secretly ...

• Author(s): Giorgio Agamben • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: GeneralThe list of subjects that Giorgio Agamben has tackled in his career is dizzying from the dangers of our ...

• Author(s): Toby Litt • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralToby Litt is one of that rare breed of fiction writers who never writes the same book twice: every time out, he tak...

• Author(s): Dracius | Suzanne • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: GeneralThe dancing other takes readers to France and Martinique to reveal the struggles of people who belong both place...

• Author(s): Ani | Friedrich • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: GeneralAfter years on the job, police detective Jakob Franck has retired. Finally, the dead with all their mysteries will...

• Author(s): Farinelli | Franco • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: GeneralToday, we believe that the map is a copy of the Earth, without realizing that the opposite is true:...

• Author(s): Svenja Leiber • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Literary“Ruven Preuk stands apart from the village, on an August day in 1911 and listens. ” Thus begins an epic bildun...

• Author(s): Christoph ransmayr • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralIn a publishing world that is all too full of realist novels written in undistinguished prose, discernible...

• Author(s): Urs Widmer • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: PoetryThe Lectures on Poetics Series at the University of Frankfurt VI has hosted many illustrious speakers at its lectern, in...

• Author(s): Urs Widmer • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralIt’s Switzerland in the 1920s when the two lovers first meet. She is young, beautiful and rich. In contrast, he ca...

• Author(s): Eisenstein | Sergei • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Film - GeneralFew figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mik...

• Author(s): Andre gorz • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Economics • BISAC: SocialWriting in 2007, French social philosopher André Gorz (1923–2007) was remarkably prophetic, foretelling the international ec...

• Author(s): Luigi Pintor • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: European - GeneralIn these three short books—Servabo: A Fin De Siècle Memoir, Miss Kirchgessner, and The Medlar Tree, collec...

• Author(s): Alexander Kluge • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - GeneralIn the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director...

• Author(s): Eisenstein | Sergei • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Film - GeneralFew figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mik...

• Author(s): Sartre Jean-Paul • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: EssaysThe Aftermath of War brings together essays written in Sartre’s most creative period, just after World...

• Author(s): Nikolai bukharin • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - GeneralNikolai Bukharin (1888–1938), an original Bolshevik leader and a founder of the Soviet state, spe...

• Author(s): Nooteboom, Cees • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralTwo men talk in Tokyo. One, a Belgian, is a diplomat. The other, Dutch, is a photographer. What, they wonder,...

• Author(s): Florence Noiville • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryNow in paperback, A Cage in Search of a Bird is the gripping story of two women caught in the vise of a te...

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

• Author(s): Tomas espedal • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: European - ScandinavianBergeners is a love letter to a writer's hometown. The book opens in New York City at the swanky Sta...

• Author(s): Jelinek | Elfriede • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Foreign Languages • BISAC: European - GermanIn recent years, the refugee problem has become impossible to ignore, as multiple crises in the M...

• Author(s): Catherine Colomb • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiterarySwiss novelist Catherine Colomb is known as one of the most unusual and inventive francophone novelists of ...

• Author(s): Franz Fuhmann • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: PoetryAt the Burning Abyss is Franz Fuhmann’s magnum opus a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great ...

• Author(s): Chandrasekhar Kambar • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryChandrasekhar Kambar is one of the most accomplished Indian writers working today. In each of Kambar’s ...

• Author(s): Carlo Ginzburg • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - GeneralWe are surrounded by images, fairly drowning in them. From our cell phones to our computers, from o...

• Author(s): Michael S. Koyama • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Literary

• Author(s): Ghassan Zaqtan • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralWhen he was seven years old, Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan moved with his family to a Karameh refugee camp e...

• Author(s): Dominique Eddé • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: European - FrenchNow in paperback, The Crime of Jean Genet is a powerful personal account of the influence of one writer o...

• Author(s): Toby Litt • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralToby Litt is best known for his “hip-lit” fiction, which, in its sharing of characters and themes across numerous s...

• Author(s): Franco Fortini • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralOriginally published in Italian in 1965, a test of powers was immediately seen as one of the central texts of ...

• Author(s): Somnath Hore | Somnath Zutshi • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: History - GeneralOffers a quasi-autobiographical essay that leads the reader through different phases of au...