Seagull Books

• Author(s): Maryse Conde • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: WomenMaryse Condé is one of the best-known and most beloved French Caribbean literary voices. The author of more than twenty novels, she was shortli...

• 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): Ranjit Hoskote • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Asian - Indian & South AsianReflections on the evolution and philosophical depth of Gieve Patel's art, adorned with illustrations of his painti...

• 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): Cees Nooteboom • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: European - GeneralAn exceptionally current volume of poems from one of Europe's greatest poets that dwell on the most pressing reality of our times...

• 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): Pascale Casanova • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - GermanFranz Kafka was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. His writing contribu...

• Author(s): Brigitte Reimann • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: MemoirsContinuing where Reimann's earlier book of diaries, I Have No Regrets, left off, in 1964, this volume is a compelling and frank account of...

• Author(s): Janaki Nair • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: HistoryAn accessible contribution to the ongoing discussion about the quality and politics of social science textbooks in India. More than ever befor...

• 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): Romila Thapar • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralWritten by one of India's best-known public intellectuals, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in India's fas...

• Author(s): Mrinal Sen • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: MemoirsAn outspoken memoir by a much-celebrated Indian filmmaker. "I am a filmmaker by accident and an author by compulsion," claims Mrinal Sen, who b...

• 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): 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): Hélène Cixous • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: GeneralA genre-defying account of confinement and its literary echoes through history. As the pandemic sweeps through Pari...

• Author(s): Tathagata Bhattacharya • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: DystopianA fast-paced and action-packed dystopian novel, addressing the nature of power, the limits of rationality, and the dominance of fe...

• Author(s): Nabarun Bhattacharya • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)A collection of inventive and surprising short stories from one of India's most prominent countercultural writer...

• Author(s): Yousuf Saeed • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Popular CultureOffers insight into the links between the development of print culture and the many dynamic strains of nationalism in dialogue during ...

• Author(s): Martin Rowson • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: EssaysBritish satirist and cartoonist Martin Rowson's acerbic chronicles of the evolution--or rather, regression--of politi...

• Author(s): Sonallah Ibrahim • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: Historical - GeneralA riveting novel that is both an indictment and an elegy, a second-person memoir of Nass...

• Author(s): Gautam Patel • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: ConstitutionalA searing manifesto for troubled times in India. "India is improbable. By any measure of logic or reason, it should not be. Not in this...

• Author(s): Romila Thapar • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: EssaysNations need identities. These are created from perceptions of how societies have evolved. In this, history plays a central role. Insisting on...

• Author(s): Christoph Ransmayr • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: LiteraryRichly imagined and recounted in vivid prose of extraordinary beauty, this book is a stunning illustration of Ransmayr's talent for im...

• 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): Friederike Mayröcker • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: European - GermanA lyrical requiem for Mayröcker's late partner, the writer Ernst Jandl. Austrian poet and playwright Ernst Jandl died in 2...

• Author(s): Friedrich Ani • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralGerman author Friedrich Ani combines deep sorrow, human darkness, and breath-taking tension in his latest crime novel. Happiness is extingui...

• 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): Giorgio Agamben • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: GeneralA rare autobiographical glimpse into the life and influences of one of Europe's greatest living philosophers. Thi...

• 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): 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): Vénus Khoury-Ghata • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Biographical & AutofictionA biographic novel that captures the tempestuous and moving life of the poet Marina Tsvetaeva. The life of Marin...

• 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): Sundar Sarukkai • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyA plea for bringing democracy to our lived daily experience written in lucid prose. TheSocial L...

• 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): 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): 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): 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...