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Sex, Nation, and Transatlantic Literatures Agata Szczeszak-Brewer 9781350323339
Booksplease Price: £85.65Nationalist and tribal cohesion in Ireland, South Africa, the US and elsewhere often relies on an absence of female and gender-nonconforming bodies in the public life.Staging a vital... -
Reading Seminar XI: Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis: The Paris Seminars in English by Richard Feldstein 9780791421482
Booksplease Price: £27.36This book provides the first truly sustained commentary to appear in either French or English on Lacan's most important seminar, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. The 16 contributors... -
Judge Not by Andre Gide
Booksplease Price: £29.80Andre Gide's lifelong fascination with the conventions of society led naturally to a strong interest in France's judicial system. At the age of sixty Gide published Judge Not, a collection of... -
Ryszard Kapuscinski: Biography of a Writer by Beata Nowacka 9780228014485
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £48.80An award-winning writer and a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Ryszard Kapuscinski (1932-2007) was a celebrated Polish journalist and author. Praised for the lengths to which he would go... -
Archipelago of the Sun by Yoko Tawada 9780811239790
Booksplease Price: £12.14The Archipelago of the Sun finds Hiruko still searching for her lost country, traveling around the Baltic on a mail boat. With her are Knut, a Danish linguist; Akash, an Indian in the process of... -
At Home with AndrA (c) and Simone Weil by Sylvie Weil 9780810142626
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Translated from the French by Benjamin Ivry, Simone Weil was one of the twentieth century's most original philosopher-critics, and as a result her legacy has been claimed by many. This memoir by... -
Out of the Cage Fernanda Garca Lao 9781646050451
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88Out of the Cage opens in 1956, in Argentina, with the freakish death of Aurora Berro, and descends into a dark philosophical exploration of humanity and mortality. In the midst of her family's... -
Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania by Adam Mickiewicz
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68A towering achievement in European literature, Pan Tadeusz is the central work of the Polish literary canon, heralded for its lovingly detailed recreation of a bygone world. The traditions of the... -
Kitchen Curse: Stories by Eka Kurniawan 9781786637154
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61Hailed as a Southeast Asian Gabriel Garcia Marquez for the exuberant beauty of his prose and the darkly comic surrealism of his stories, Eka Kurniawan is the first Indonesian writer to be nominated... -
Estranging the Novel: Poland, Ireland, and Theories of World Literature by Katarzyna Bartoszynska
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £22.24To develop a theory of world literature, this book demands that the theory of the novel can no longer ignore literary forms other than realism.Winner of the Donald Murphy Prize for a Distinguished... -
Vaseline Buddha by Jung Young-moon 9781941920343
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.26"If someone in the future asks in frustration, 'What has Korean literature been up to?' we can quietly hand them Vaseline Buddha." -- Pak Mingyu A tragicomic odyssey told through free association... -
The National Telepathy Roque Larraquy 9781913867904
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10In September 1933, the Peruvian Rubber Company delivers nineteen indigenous people from the Amazon to a Buenos Aires businessman. Unexpected among the human cargo is a box, harboring a sloth with a...