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Fire Doesn't Burn by Ralf Rothmann
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $19.03Almost twenty years after the fall of the wall, the Kreuzberg district of Berlin has become unbearably trendy and deeply unappealing to Alina and Wolf. They move to Muggelsee, at the city's bucolic... -
From the Berlin Journal by Max Frisch
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.06Max Frisch (1911 91) was a giant of twentieth-century German literature. When Frisch moved into a new apartment in Berlin's Sarrazinstrasse, he began keeping a journal, which he came to call the... -
Beyond the Stars, Part 1: The Boy from Riga by Sergei Eisenstein
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $23.61Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting... -
Squandered Advice Ilse Aichinger 9780857429780
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $17.30The first English translation of a major work of postwar German poetry. Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016) was a member of the Gruppe 47 writers' group, which sought to renew... -
The Year: A Novel Tomas Espedal 9780857428509
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.45In contemporary Norwegian fiction, Tomas Espedal's work stands out as uniquely bound up with the author's personal experiences. His first book, Tramp, introduced us to the wanderer Tomas; Against Art... -
House of Shadows by Diane Meur
RRP: $34.19Booksplease Price: $31.13After the failed revolutions of 1848, Galicia has been brought under the rule of the Habsburg Empire, and the Zemka family find themselves embroiled in the struggle for Polish independence. This is a... -
Friendship as Social Justice Activism: Critical Solidarities in a Global Perspective by Niharika Banerjea
Booksplease Price: $33.20Friendship as Social Justice Activism brings together academics and activists to have essential conversations about friendship, love, and desire as kinetics for social justice movements. The... -
The Short-Fiction Scenario by Sergei Eisenstein
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.09Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting... -
Camille in October Mireille Best 9780857426970
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.05In 1950s France, Camille struggles to figure out who she is and where she fits in the world of her coastal working-class neighborhood. Her mother holds the family together, with the support of a... -
Etudes by Friederike Mayroecker
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.92A diary-like sequence of poems from one of Austria's best-known contemporary voices. Exploring longing, lust for life, aging, mortality, grief, and flowers in her inimitable late style, etudes is a... -
The Fount of Time: The Last Kindom II by Pascal Quignard
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.87"Last Kingdom is a set of books that . . . is neither philosophical argumentation nor little disparate, scholarly essays, nor novelistic narrative; gradually, for me, all genres have fallen away." ... -
Till Day You Do Part: Or a Question of Light Peter Handke 9780857425300
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.87Described as an answer to or at least an echo of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape?, Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light, by esteemed Austrian playwright and novelist Peter Handke, is a... -
A Very Fine Gift and Other Writings on Theory: Essays and Interviews: Volume 1 by Roland Barthes
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $19.41Roland 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... -
The Suspended Passion: Interviews Marguerite Duras 9780857423290
RRP: $23.87Booksplease Price: $21.66A controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers around the world. This volume of interviews--hailed on its French... -
The Javelin Thrower by Paolo Volponi
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.16As a boy growing up in rural Italy in the 1930s, Damin is experiencing the first stirrings of adolescence when he accidentally sees his mother having sex with the local Fascist commandant. His pain,... -
The Red Sofa by Mich l Lesbre
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $19.03In The Red Sofa, we meet Anne, a young woman setting off on the Trans-Siberian Railway in order to find her former lover, Gyl, who left twenty years before. As the train moves across post-Soviet... -
Reflection: And Other Plays by Mahesh Elkunchwar
Booksplease Price: $25.93Celebrated Indian playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar has experimented with many forms of dramatic expression in a career that now spans more than four decades, producing works that range from the realist... -
The Red Sofa by Michele Lesbre
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.93Now in paperback, The Red Sofa is a quiet French novella exploring love, memory, and the perspective that travel gives us on both. In The Red Sofa, we meet Anne, a young woman setting off on the... -
Zurich Transit Max Frisch 9780857428189
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.84This screenplay by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch was developed from an episode in his 1964 novel Gantenbein, or A Wilderness of Mirrors. At the center of both works is Theo Ehrismann, a... -
Unofficial Roxelana: And Other Plays by zen Yula
Booksplease Price: $44.09At a time when Turkey is struggling for its secular identity, resisting the influence of ISIS, and finding itself at the heart of the European refugee crisis, accomplished Turkish playwright Ozen... -
The Divine Song Abdourahman A. Waberi 9780857426949
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.96"Everything starts with a song and everything ends with another song," says the narrator of The Divine Song. Paris is an old Sufi cat who keeps watch over his brilliant yet pathetic master, Sammy... -
In Field Latin by Lutz Seiler
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $9.22Lutz Seiler grew up in the former East Germany and has lived most of his life outside Berlin. His poems, not surprisingly, are works of the border, the in-between, and the provincial, marked by... -
The Sex of the Angels, the Saints in Their Heaven: A Breviary by Raoul Schrott
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $23.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857425553Author Raoul SchrottFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Seagull Books London... -
The Prison Poems of Nikolai Bukharin Nikolai Bukharin 9780857425812
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.55Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938), an original Bolshevik leader and a founder of the Soviet state, spent the last year of his life imprisoned by Stalin, awaiting a trial and eventual execution. Remarkably... -
Is It the Same for You? by Neha Singh
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.23"The day they found my brother with a blood stain, I found one on my kurta too, but no one noticed my blood stain." Thus begins the story of a young girl in Kashmir as she goes through the turbulence... -
Kaddish: Pages on Tadeusz Kantor Jan Kott 9780857427489
Booksplease Price: $19.17Tadeusz Kantor (1915-90) was renowned for his revolutionary theater performances in both his native Poland and abroad. Despite nominally being a Catholic, Kantor had a unique relationship with Jewish... -
Twilight of Torment: Melancholy Leonora Miano 9780857429797
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.49A haunting, multivocal novel full of stories of the lives of women of African descent. Four women speak. They speak to the same man, who is not there. He is the son of the first, the... -
Tramp: Or the Art of Living a Wild and Poetic Life by Tomas Espedal
Booksplease Price: $21.10A lyrical travelogue charting Tomas Espedal's journeys to and ruminations around the world, from his native Norway to Istanbul and beyond. "Why travel?" asks Tomas Espedal in Tramp, "Why not just... -
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"Masculine, Feminine, Neuter"and Other Writings on Literature: Essays and Interviews, Volume 3 by Roland Barthes
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $19.03Last season, Seagull Books published the first three volumes in a new series collecting essays and interviews by the late French thinker Roland Barthes. This season they'll bring the five-volume set... -
Like Bits of Wind: Selected Poetry and Poetic Prose, 1974-2014 by Pierre Chappuis
RRP: $26.45Booksplease Price: $23.76One of the central figures from a remarkable generation of French-language poets, Pierre Chappuis has thus far only been represented in English translation in fragments: a few poems here and there in... -
Tumult by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
RRP: $26.45Booksplease Price: $23.76Hans Magnus Enzensberger, widely regarded as Germany's greatest living poet, was already well known in the 1960s, the tempestuous decade of which Tumult is an autobiographical record. Derived from... -
Things That Happen: And Other Poems by Bhaskar Chakrabarti
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $19.30Bhaskar Chakrabarti's poetry is synonymous with the romantic melancholia inherent to Calcutta. His trenchant poetic voice was one of the most significant to emerge in the 1960s and '70s perhaps the... -
Conversations with Mohsen Makhmalbaf by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.96Born in Tehran in 1957, filmmaker Mohsen Ostad Ali Makhmalbaf grew up in the religious and politically charged atmosphere of the 1960s, and the June 1963 uprising of Ayatollah Khomeini constitutes... -
A Calm Fire: And Other Travel Writings by Philippe Jaccottet
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $23.10In these times of heartbreaking violence, clashing religions, and a seemingly never-ending narrative of dichotomy between East and West, wonder at the religion and culture of the Middle East can be... -
Ludwig's Room Alois Hotschnig 9780857428301
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.04When Kurt Weber inherits his great-uncle's lakeside house, he finds traces of the dark secrets of his family's past. The early inhabitants of the house haunt his dreams nightly. And one day a... -
Culture and Liberation: Exile Writings, 1966-1985 by Alex La Guma
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $40.66One of South Africa's best-known writers during the apartheid era, Alex La Guma was a lifelong activist and a member of the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress. Persecuted... -
December by Alexander Kluge
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.06In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Gerhard Richter have composed December, a collection... -
The Beloved of the Dawn by Franz Fuhmann
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857429001Author Franz FuhmannFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint Seagull Books London LtdPublisher... -
Loving at a Distance by Petra Hardt
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.01A poignant memoir about cultural differences told by an international rights veteran in the book publishing industry. Traveling from the Silicon Valley through the college towns of Berkeley and... -
The Labyrinth of Tender Force – 166 Love Stories by Alexander Kluge
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $27.06Collects 166 of Alexander Kluge’s love stories previously concealed among his vast library of more than 2,000 texts. The latest offering from one of the greatest living German writers, The Labyrinth...