Seagull Books

• 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): 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): 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): 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): Ariel Magnus • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralAfter immigrating with his German Jewish family to South America in the 1930s, Heinz Magnus hopes to escape the Nazi regime and build a new li...

• 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): Friedericke Mayröcker • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: European - GermanA collection of poetic stream-of-consciousness prose meditations by Friederike Mayröc...

• Author(s): Salim Barakat • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: Middle EasternA collection showcasing the latest poems of the Kurdish-Syrian maestro of Arabic style. Salim Ba...

• Author(s): Giorgio Agamben • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryAgamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and Nymphs...

• 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): 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): Reinhard Jirgl • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: LiteraryA profound novel detailing the brutal legacy of Nazism on four generations of a family in Germany. Komotau, the Czech Republic, late summe...

• 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): 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): Nabarun Bhattacharya • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: DystopianA hilarious and absurdist take on the political landscape of West Bengal, India. Beggar's Bedlam is a surre...

• Author(s): Tobie Nathan • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralA riveting and revealing tale of an Egypt caught between tradition and modernity, multiculturalism and nationalism, oppression and freedom. C...

• Author(s): Giorgio Agamben • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - ItalianA richly illustrated analysis from one of Europe's greatest living philosophers. In Pinocchio, Gi...

• 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): Mireille Best • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralIn 1950s France, Camille struggles to figure out who she is and where she fits in the world of her coastal working-class neighborhood. Her mo...

• Author(s): Léonora Miano • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: WomenA searing novel exploring the construction of masculinity in sub-Saharan Africa. After beating his girlfriend and leaving her for dead on the ...

• Author(s): Leonhard Emmerling • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryAn engaging exploration of the meaning and power of art that looks at popular theories through the ages. One of the most...

• 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): Akram Musallam • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralAn experimental novel that explores the complexity of Palestinian identity through extended metaphor and dark humor. On a plastic chair in ...

• Author(s): Wanjiku Wa Ngugi • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralAn enchanting novel of magical realism from a new voice, Kenyan author Wanjikũ Wa Ngũgĩ. Victoriana is a country ruled by an Emperor-for-...

• Author(s): Hans Magnus Enzensberger • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Literary FiguresOne of Germany's greatest living writers offers up an analysis (and samples) of his failed projects. "My dear fellow art...

• 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): William Kentridge • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Individual Artists - Artists' BooksIn Accounts and Drawings from Underground, published in 2015, renowned artist William Kentridge and scholar R...

• 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): Furio Jesi • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralOne of the foremost thinkers of his generation, Furio Jesi began to publish scholarly essays in academic journals at the...

• Author(s): Mercy Vungthianmaung Guite • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels - Fairy Tales, Folklore, Legends & MRichly illustrated in color, this book brings a charming folktale f...

• 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): Premanand Gajvee | M.D. Hatkananhalekar • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull

• 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): Badal Sirchar • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull

• Author(s): Hussein Barghouthi | Ibrahim Muhawi • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: GeneralA poetically written and bitterly sweet memoir about nature, death, life in Palestine, and the...

• 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): Giorgio Agamben • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Foreign Languages • BISAC: GeneralOur taste buds are a powerful way for humans to know beauty and experience beautiful things. In Taste, Italian...

• 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...