Seagull Books

• 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...

• 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...