Seagull Books

• 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): Melinda Nadj Abonji • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Biographical & AutofictionTells the heart-wrenching story of a family torn between emigration and immigration and paints evocative portrai...

• Author(s): Thomas Bernhard • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: European - GermanBernhard's Collected Poem is a key to understanding Bernhard's irascible black comedy found in virtually all of his writings--eve...

• 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): Annemarie Schwarzenbach • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Special Interest - LiteraryIn June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set ...

• Author(s): Roland Barthes • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralA major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback...

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

• Author(s): Victor Menza • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralOne morning as they parted, Victor Menza's daughter handed him a bunny postcard. This gift made him wonder why rabbits had been their symbol o...

• Author(s): Furio Jesi • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: European - ItalianAn analysis of how a political myth is taken and treated as a metaphor that reflects how a country like Germany built its own destiny...

• 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): Sherko Fatah • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: LiteraryGrowing up in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a young Kurdish boy named Kerim has ample opportunity to witness the murderous repression that defined t...

• 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): Tomas Espedal • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Essays & TraveloguesA lyrical travelogue charting Tomas Espedal's journeys to and ruminations around the world, from his native Norway to Istanb...

• Author(s): Hans Magnus Enzensberger • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralAny new book by poet, essayist, writer, and translator Hans Magnus Enzensberger, one of the most influential and internationally r...

• Author(s): Salim Barakat • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Asian - GeneralIntroduces renowned Kurdish-Syrian writer Salim Barkat to an English audience for the first time, with translated selections from his...

• Author(s): Monica Cantieni • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Literary"My father bought me from the council for 365 francs," recalls the narrator in Monica Cantieni's novel The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons. ...

• 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): Cees Nooteboom • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: European - GeneralA collection of poems, selected by Nooteboom himself from more than a dozen Dutch books. Cees Nooteboom is best known in the Eng...

• 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): Santanu Biswas • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralSome of the most well-known psychoanalysts and literary theorists explore Jacques Lacan's influence on literature. The relationship between...

• Author(s): Katharina Winkler • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: LiteraryNow in paperback, Katharina Winkler's heartbreaking saga of a tenacious woman trapped in an abusive marriage. Blue jewelry is private p...

• Author(s): Marco Belpoliti • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Literary FiguresDrawing on twenty years of research, this is the definitive biography of Primo Levi. Over the last seventy years, Primo Levi (191...

• Author(s): Sibylle Lewitscharoff • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: LiteraryNow in paperback, from one of the most dazzling authors of contemporary German literature comes this delightful tale of a philosophe...

• Author(s): Lisa Peschel • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - HolocaustA meticulously researched book that collects twelve playscripts written by European Jews imprisoned in the Terezín ...

• 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...

• Author(s): Kim Hyun • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: LGBTQ+A ground-breaking new collection of queer poetry from a leading contemporary Korean poet. Kim Hyun's Glory Hole is the first Korean queer poetry c...

• Author(s): Giorgio Agamben • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralItalian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans a...

• Author(s): Kunal Sen • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralA behind-the-scenes look at the life of filmmaker Mrinal Sen through the eyes of his son Kunal, who grew up immersed in the world of Indian cinem...

• Author(s): Bachmann | Ingeborg • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: European - GermanIngeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is recognized as one of post-war German literature's most...

• Author(s): Miano | Léonora • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: GeneralNow in paperback, a brutal and dreamlike story about the first victims of the transatlantic slave trade. This pow...

• Author(s): Peter Handke • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Foreign Languages • BISAC: General"On the day of the Great Fall he left nothing, nothing at all behind." The latest work by Peter Handke, one of o...

• Author(s): Quignard | Pascal • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Foreign Languages • BISAC: European - FrenchProlific essayist, translator, and critic Pascal Quignard has described his Last Kingdom series as...

• Author(s): Parei | Inka • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryClose to death, an old man collapses and struggles to his bed. The sounds of the endless night unsettle him, tr...

• Author(s): Efoui | Kossi • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryNow in paperback, The Shadow of Things to Come and its catastrophic and carnivalesque dreamscape speak out aga...

• Author(s): Lesbre | Michèle • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryNow in paperback, The Red Sofa is a quiet French novella exploring love, memory, and the perspective that t...

• Author(s): Bronsard | Marie • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryNow in paperback, Marie Bronsard's strikingly original memoir reweaves the history of her family--and the l...

• Author(s): Parei | Inka • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryEast Germany. The last days of the Wall. A man receives a startling call from his ex-wife, who's in the hospita...

• Author(s): Ralph Dutli | Katharina Rout • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryThis is a biographical novel that tells the story of Chaim Soutine, a Jewish painter from Belor...

• Author(s): Lehr Thomas • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryTwo fathers with two daughters: Martin, professor of German, writes but is studying Earth Sciences at MIT; Tariq...

• Author(s): Benoziglio | Jean-Luc • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryThe narrator in Jean-Luc Benoziglio's Privy Portrait has fallen on hard times. His wife and young daug...

• Author(s): Geltinger | Gunther • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralIt's the early 1970s and Dion Katthusen, thirteen, is growing up fatherless in a small village in norther...

• Author(s): Steen Thorvald • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - GeneralRichard I (1157-99) was king of England from 1189 until his death, but he is best known as a soldie...

• Author(s): Jorge Luis Borges • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralBuddhism, love, Henry James, and the tango are just a few of the topics Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina's mast...

• Author(s): Hoffer | Klaus • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: World Literature - AustriaYoung Hans arrives with one suitcase in a squalid village on the eastern edge of empire--a ...

• Author(s): Perros | Georges • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: European - FrenchShould you find yourself strolling along the coastal heights of Douarnenez, a Brittany town...

• Author(s): Parei Inka • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature

• Author(s): Michele Lesbre • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryAbout the Book In The Red Sofa, we meet Anne, a young woman setting off on the Trans-Siberian Railway in orde...

• Author(s): Peter Handke • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction

• Author(s): Amrita Basu • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: GeneralViolence and Democracy in India examines the relationship between the extreme violence of riots, pogroms,...

• Author(s): Rainer Rochlitz • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: AestheticsArt today is in deep crisis. Criticism seems to have abandoned any notion of evaluation, the pub...

• Author(s): Richard Gott • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismChe Guevara s death began a legend and closed an era. Based ...

• Author(s): Saviana Stanescu • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: GeneralIn Waxing West, Daniella, newly arrived in the US from Romania, is haunted by the ghosts of the deposed dictator ...

• Author(s): Vijaya Mulay • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismBrahmins named Iftikar, Buddhist rites in Hindu Shiva temples, Indian maidens dre...

• Author(s): Tadashi Uchino • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismCrucible Bodies: Postwar Japanese Performance from Brecht to the New Millennium is a coll...

• Author(s): David Peimer • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: AfricanAs a phenomenon of history with social, political, cultural implications, the entire 'negotiated' experi...

• Author(s): Danielle Barnhart • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Creative Writing, FictionCreative activists have reacted to the 2016 presidential election in myriad ways. Editors Danielle barnhart and Iris ...

• Author(s): Anjum Katyal • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literaturesymposium proceedings on cultural organizations in Asia. series of case studies by participants, specialists.