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A Thousand Cranes for India: Reclaiming Plurality Amid Hatred Pallavi Aiyar 9780857427441
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.85In Japan there is a legend that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will have their wishes realized. But folding cranes, and the meditative, solemn care that it involves, has come to mean more... -
Fury by Elfriede Jelinek
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.12A new play from Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek that deals with the 2015 terror attack on the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo's offices in Paris. In Greek mythology, it is Hera who... -
Tales of Mr. Keuner by Bertolt Brecht
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.96From the 1920s through the 1950s, Bertolt Brecht wrote a number of short, fictionalized comments on contemporary life, politics, and thought. Through the dramatic events of the first half of the... -
A Kind of Touching Beauty: Photographs of America by Pedro Meyer, Text by Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre 9780857425843
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92"Everyone is free here. . . . The cities are open. They are open to the world and to the future. That is what gives them all an air of adventure; and . . . a kind of touching beauty." So wrote the... -
The Labyrinth of Tender Force: 166 Love Stories Alexander Kluge 9780857426048
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.48No human quality is more necessary for survival than love. But while love has the power to lift us up with boundless joy, it has equal strength to crush us-it is easy to lose your way within love's... -
I Am a Field Full of Rapeseed, Give Cover to Deer and Shine Like Thirteen Oil Paintings Laid One on Top of the Other by Ulrike Almut Sandig
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92"we find ourselves deep in the future of fairy tale. we are the offspring of our own imaginings." Ulrike Almut Sandig's second volume of poems to be translated into English is a journey through a... -
The Red Scarf: Followed by 'two Stages' and Additional Notes by Yves Bonnefoy
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.18In December 2015, six months before his death at the age of 93, Yves Bonnefoy concluded what was to be his last major text in prose, L'echarpe rouge, translated here as The Red Scarf. In this unique... -
Stories Under Occupation: And Other Plays from Palestine by Samer Al-Saber
Booksplease Price: £35.12Palestinian theater today is drawing increasing interest throughout the Arab world and beyond, as theaters and universities in the English-speaking world are becoming familiar with companies like the... -
Rome, 1630: The Horizon of Early Baroque and Other Essays Yves Bonnefoy 9780857425966
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.48Velazquez. Poussin. Carvaggio. Bernini. Despite their disparate backgrounds, these greats of European Baroque art converged at one remarkable place in time: Rome, 1630. In response to the Protestant... -
The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright Ngugi wa Thiong'o 9780857426475
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92Science has given us several explanations for how humans evolved from walking on four limbs to two feet. None, however, is as riveting as what master storyteller Ngugi wa Thiong'o offers in The... -
August Christa Wolf 9780857427076
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.63Christa Wolf was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. Having grown up during the Nazi regime, she and her family were forced to flee their home like many... -
On Merleau-Ponty Jean-Paul Sartre 9780857429087
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.25A moving tribute to phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty in the wake of his early death. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most... -
Flowers for Otello: On the Crimes That Came Out of Jena by Esther Dischereit
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92A powerful performance text that illuminates incidents of anti-immigrant violence in contemporary Germany. Between 1998 and 2007 a series of killings in Germany, disdainfully styled "doner... -
Accounts and Drawings from Underground: The East Rand Proprietary Mines Cash Book William Kentridge 9780857428523
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £39.65In Accounts and Drawings from Underground, published in 2015, renowned artist William Kentridge and scholar Rosalind C. Morris brought us an unprecedented collaboration, taking pages of the 1906 Cash... -
Death in Persia by Annemarie Schwarzenbach
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.25Since the rediscovery of her work in the late 1980s, Annemarie Schwarzenbach-journalist, traveler, archaeologist, opium addict, and antifascist novelist-has become a European cult figure among free... -
The 'Scandal' of Marxism and Other Writings on Politics: Essays and Interviews: Volume 2 by Roland Barthes
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Roland Barthes, whose centenary falls in 2015, was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator, often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another, he first gained an audience... -
What Darkness Was by Inka Parei
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.25Close to death, an old man collapses and struggles to his bed. The sounds of the endless night unsettle him, triggering images, questions, and memories. In What Darkness Was, Inka Parei, author of... -
Blumenberg Sibylle Lewitscharoff 9780857429971
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.25Now in paperback, from one of the most dazzling authors of contemporary German literature comes this delightful tale of a philosopher and his encounter with a supernatural lion. One night, German... -
Stigmata of Bliss: Three Novellas by Klaus Merz
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.25Klaus Merz is one of the most prominent, prolific, and versatile Swiss writers working today. Celebrated as a master of concise, condensed sentences, Merz brings depth and resonance to spare... -
I Have No Regrets: Diaries, 1955-1963 Brigitte Reimann 9780857426680
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62I enjoyed success too early, married the wrong man, and hung out with the wrong people; too many men have liked me, and I've liked too many men. Frank and refreshing, Brigitte Reimann's... -
Mr Zed's Reflections Hans Magnus Enzensberger 9780857428219
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.25Any new book by poet, essayist, writer, and translator Hans Magnus Enzensberger, one of the most influential and internationally renowned German intellectuals, is cause for notice, and Mr. Zed's... -
Rue Traversiere Yves Bonnefoy 9780857422279
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Praised by Paul Auster as "one of the rare poets in the history of literature to have sustained the highest level of artistic excellence throughout an entire lifetime," Yves Bonnefoy is widely... -
Logic in a Popular Form: Essays on Popular Religion in Bengal by Sumanta Banerjee
Booksplease Price: £25.74Taking its title from Karl Marx's description of religion as the world's "logic in a popular form," this book explores the hidden logic behind popular religions in nineteenth-century Bengal... -
The Fire Above, the Mountain Below by Reinhard Jirgl
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £13.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857427793Author Reinhard JirglFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Seagull Books London... -
End of Equality Beatrix Campbell 9780857421135
Booksplease Price: £17.18Among liberal thinkers, there is an optimistic belief that men and women are on a cultural journey toward equality - in the workplace, on the street, and in the home. But observation and evidence... -
'Simply a Particular Contemporary': Interviews, 1970-79: Essays and Interviews, Volume 5 Roland Barthes 9780857422408
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Roland Barthes, whose centenary falls in 2015, was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator, often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another, he first gained an audience... -
Thick of It by Ulrike Almut Sandig
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.54The poems of Ulrike Almut Sandig are at once simple and fantastic. This new collection finds her on her way to imaginary territories. Thick of It charts a journey through two hemispheres to "the... -
The Philosophy of Living by Francois Jullien
Booksplease Price: £18.80Living holds us between two places. It expresses what is most elementary-to be alive-and the absoluteness of our aspiration-finally living! But could we desire anything other than to live? In The... -
Accounts and Drawings from Underground: The East Rand Proprietary Mines Cash Book, 1906 William Kentridge 9780857422057
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £64.04Over the last twenty years, William Kentridge has built a world-wide reputation as a contemporary artist, best known for his series of ten animated films created from charcoal drawings. The films... -
Victor Halfwit: A Winter's Tale by Thomas Bernhard
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.42One night in the middle of winter, as deep snow covers the mountains and forests, a doctor is crossing the ridge in Austria from Traich to Foeding to see a patient. He stumbles over a body in the... -
Tristan by Clarence Boulay
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857428813Author Clarence BoulayFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Seagull Books London... -
The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons by Monica Cantieni
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.83"My father bought me from the council for 365 francs," recalls the narrator in Monica Cantieni's novel The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons. She's a young girl, an immigrant to Switzerland... -
The Dark Ship by Sherko Fatah
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Growing up in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a young Kurdish boy named Kerim has ample opportunity to witness the murderous repression that defined the era for thousands of Iraqis. In Sherko Fatah's The Dark... -
Gramsci′s Fall by Nora Bossong
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.50A novel at once about social justice, romance, and Gramsci.Is it possible to fight for social justice if you’ve never really loved another person? Can you save a country if you’re in... -
Bending into the Light by Alice Attie
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.82A beautiful and timely collection of poems written during the pandemic. The poems in Alice Attie’s new volume, Bending into the Light, are poised on an ever-shifting threshold where words “up and... -
The Worst Thing of All Is the Light by José Luis Serrano 9781803092560
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.99A metafictional novel about two intertwined stories of love that seek to perpetuate themselves in history.The Worst Thing of All Is the Light tells two stories. First, that of the friendship of two... -
Sketchbooks, 1946-1949 Max Frisch 9780857429766
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.17A new translation of one of the earliest volumes of Max Frisch's innovative notebooks. Throughout his life, the great Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch (1911-1991) kept a series of... -
Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women's Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope Jael Silliman 9780857429919
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.36Reveals the forgotten history of Baghdadi Jews' journey into India through the stories of four generations of Jewish women. An invaluable cultural document shaped from personal experience, Jewish... -
Giving Offence Martin Rowson 9781906497019
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.94Tolerated in Britain for over 300 years-and ubiquitous throughout the world for much longer - visual satire gives offence in the quickest way and in its purest form. Cartoons have long since... -
Starlite Terrace by Patrick Roth 9781803092119
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55Dark stories of failed dreams and contemporary desperation in Los Angeles. In a rundown Los Angeles apartment building—the titular Starlite Terrace—Patrick Roth unfurls the tragic linked stories of...