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The Red Sofa - Michele Lesbre - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Red Sofa - Michele Lesbre - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Now 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 Trans-Siberian Railway in order to find her former lover, Gyl, who left twenty years before. As the train moves across post-Soviet Russia and its devastated landscapes, Anne reflects on her past with Gyl and their patriotic struggles, as well as on the neighbor she has just left behind, Clémence Barrot. Rocked by the train’s movements Anne is moved by her memory of Clémence, who is old and whose memory is failing, but who has not lost her taste for life and adventure. Ensconced on her red sofa at home, Clémence loves to tell Anne her life story, mourning lost loved ones and celebrating the lives of brave, rebellious women who went before her. Eventually, Anne’s train trip returns her home having not found Gyl, but having found something much more meaningful—herself.

DKK 140.00
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Looking Back through Our Identities - Aloka Parasher Sen - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Looking Back through Our Identities - Aloka Parasher Sen - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

An accessible monograph that invites readers to rethink traditional historical boundaries in its exploration of myth and memory. Looking Back through Our Identities explores the intricate relationship between myth and history in shaping the identities of diverse Indian communities. Through a meticulous analysis of ancient texts and oral traditions, Aloka Parasher Sen examines how the past is interpreted and navigated by groups like the Chenchus, an indigenous people from southern and eastern India. Sen discusses the role of myth in providing alternative histories and challenging linear, elite-centric historical narratives. Sen also addresses the significance of memory and visual representation in preserving history, advocating for a broader understanding that encompasses multiple perspectives and identities. Looking Back through Our Identities offers a comprehensive and inclusive view of India's cultural heritage.

DKK 139.00
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Anyone Who Utters a Consoling Word Is a Traitor – 48 Stories for Fritz Bauer - Alta L. Price - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Anyone Who Utters a Consoling Word Is a Traitor – 48 Stories for Fritz Bauer - Alta L. Price - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A book about bitter fates—both already known and yet to unfold—and the many kinds of organized machinery built to destroy people. Alexander Kluge’s work has long grappled with the Third Reich and its aftermath, and the extermination of the Jews forms its gravitational center. Kluge is forever reminding us to keep our present catastrophes in perspective—“calibrated”—against this historical monstrosity. Kluge’s newest work is a book about bitter fates, both already known and yet to unfold. Above all, it is about the many kinds of organized machinery built to destroy people. These forty-eight stories of justice and injustice are dedicated to the memory of Fritz Bauer, a determined fighter for justice and district attorney of Hesse during the Auschwitz Trials. “The moment they come into existence, monstrous crimes have a unique ability,” Bauer once said, “to ensure their own repetition.” Kluge takes heed, and in these pages reminds us of the importance of keeping our powers of observation and memory razor sharp.

DKK 173.00
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The Red Sofa - Michele Lesbre - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Red Sofa - Michele Lesbre - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In 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 Russia and its devastated landscapes, Anne reflects on her past with Gyl and their patriotic struggles, as well as on the neighbor she has just left behind, Clemence Barrot. Rocked by the train's movements Anne is moved by her memory of Clemence, who is old and whose memory is failing, but who has not lost her taste for life and adventure. Ensconced on her red sofa at home, Clemence loves to tell Anne her life story, mourning lost loved ones and celebrating the lives of brave, rebellious women who went before her. Eventually, Anne's train trip returns her home having not found Gyl, but having found something much more meaningful herself. "A luminous novel about desire, a clear text about the joy of living." Prix Pierre Mac Orlan 2007

DKK 193.00
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Anyone Who Utters a Consoling Word Is a Traitor - Alexander Kluge - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Anyone Who Utters a Consoling Word Is a Traitor - Alexander Kluge - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A book about bitter fates—both already known and yet to unfold—and the many kinds of organized machinery built to destroy people. Alexander Kluge’s work has long grappled with the Third Reich and its aftermath, and the extermination of the Jews forms its gravitational center. Kluge is forever reminding us to keep our present catastrophes in perspective—“calibrated”—against this historical monstrosity. Kluge’s newest work is a book about bitter fates, both already known and yet to unfold. Above all, it is about the many kinds of organized machinery built to destroy people. These forty-eight stories of justice and injustice are dedicated to the memory of Fritz Bauer, a determined fighter for justice and district attorney of Hesse during the Auschwitz Trials. “The moment they come into existence, monstrous crimes have a unique ability,” Bauer once said, “to ensure their own repetition.” Kluge takes heed, and in these pages reminds us of the importance of keeping our powers of observation and memory razor sharp.

DKK 182.00
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Another Spring - Yasmine Beverly Rana - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Another Spring - Yasmine Beverly Rana - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

From Sarajevo to Tunisia to Rome, these five plays trace the invisible scars of exile, where memory and identity are both a burden and a lifeline. In Another Spring and Other Plays, Yasmine Beverly Rana crafts an intricate tapestry of survival and memory in the wake of war and displacement. Spanning years and continents, these five plays trace the intimate wounds of conflict as they echo through generations. In The Fallen and Another Spring, the ghosts of war haunt the living, forcing them to navigate love, loss, and the shifting landscapes of post-war existence. At the Barre and Icarus and Amina depict the power of art as both sanctuary and rebellion against the forces of migration and exile. The collection concludes with After Rome, where two childhood friends reunite on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the siege of Sarajevo, confronting the long shadows of history. With poetic and unwavering dialogue, Rana’s plays display the universally resonant struggles of those shaped by war. Another Spring is not just a collection of plays—it is a reflection on resilience and how trauma and art become intertwined in the search for meaning.

DKK 225.00
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Crossings - Sylvia Molloy - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Crossings - Sylvia Molloy - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A captivating exploration of identity, language, and memory, weaving together whimsical and profound vignettes that challenge our understanding of home and self in a multicultural world. In Crossings, Sylvia Molloy embarks on an evocative exploration of the intricate and profound experience of living between languages, cultures, and geographies. A pioneering Argentine writer, fluent in Spanish, English, and French, Molloy inhabited all three languages, shuttling back, forth, and between, aware that each place and each language bring forth a different self. The short entries that make up “Varied Imagination” and “Living Between Languages”—the two collections gathered in this volume for the first time—revolve around an interrelated set of questions. What makes “home”? Does language make or destabilize a sense of home? How does speaking a language or switching between languages perform one’s place in the world? These vignettes capture the realization that the most seemingly natural things in life—such as home, language, and identity—depend entirely on performance. Each act, each word communicates something, means something, does something to their specific audience; another audience might react quite differently. Molloy wrote, rewrote, edited, and reworked to find the right mix to express the estar entre or “between” that was her life. In this compelling volume, Molloy’s reflections on the fluidity of identity and the transient nature of home resonate deeply, prompting readers to contemplate the profound connections between language, place, memory, and lived experience.

DKK 1070.00
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Tamangur - Leta Semadeni - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Tamangur - Leta Semadeni - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A hauntingly beautiful debut novel that interweaves grief, memory, and the mystical realm of an ancient forest through eighty-four poignant vignettes. Romansh poet Leta Semadeni’s debut novel, Tamangur, is a multifaceted gem that delves into the shadowed depths of a remote valley in the Engadin Alps. More than a setting, the ancient stone pine forest of Tamangur serves as a mystical realm, a Valhalla for hunters and their kin, where the living brush against the world of the dead. A richly woven narrative, Tamangur unfolds through eighty-four interlocking vignettes. We follow an unnamed young girl, referred to only as “the child,” and her grandmother as they navigate their shared grief. The loss of the girl’s beloved grandfather and younger brother casts a long shadow, with the child believing she is to blame for her brother’s death—a burden that has led her parents to abandon her. The small village they inhabit is populated by a cast of quirky characters: Elsa, who passionately loves the absent Elvis; a seamstress who steals others’ memories; a brooding chimney sweep; and a rude goat. Amidst the sorrow, these oddballs form a patchwork family, softening the harsh edges of fate with their peculiar charm. Semadeni’s prose is crystalline and evocative, blending the poignant with the absurd in a way that captures the heart and imagination. Tamangur is a haunting exploration of loss, memory, and the fragile connections that bind us.

DKK 199.00
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Crossings - Sylvia Molloy - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Crossings - Sylvia Molloy - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A captivating exploration of identity, language, and memory, weaving together whimsical and profound vignettes that challenge our understanding of home and self in a multicultural world. In Crossings, Sylvia Molloy embarks on an evocative exploration of the intricate and profound experience of living between languages, cultures, and geographies. A pioneering Argentine writer, fluent in Spanish, English, and French, Molloy inhabited all three languages, shuttling back, forth, and between, aware that each place and each language bring forth a different self. The short entries that make up “Varied Imagination” and “Living Between Languages”—the two collections gathered in this volume for the first time—revolve around an interrelated set of questions. What makes “home”? Does language make or destabilize a sense of home? How does speaking a language or switching between languages perform one’s place in the world? These vignettes capture the realization that the most seemingly natural things in life—such as home, language, and identity—depend entirely on performance. Each act, each word communicates something, means something, does something to their specific audience; another audience might react quite differently. Molloy wrote, rewrote, edited, and reworked to find the right mix to express the estar entre or “between” that was her life. In this compelling volume, Molloy’s reflections on the fluidity of identity and the transient nature of home resonate deeply, prompting readers to contemplate the profound connections between language, place, memory, and lived experience.

DKK 228.00
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The Concept of Tradition - K. G. Subramanyan - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Concept of Tradition - K. G. Subramanyan - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This volume delves into how art reflects the ever-evolving relationship between humanity and nature, exploring industrialization’s impact on cultural practices and memory. In The Concept of Tradition and Other Essays, K. G. Subramanyan explores questions about art and tradition, such as whether tradition is more than a mere linear progression of artifacts and ideas. He also explores how art reflects on the evolving relationship between nature and humanity and the impact industrialization has had on our aesthetic sensibilities. He interrogates the structures that transmit cultural knowledge across generations while exploring whether tradition can serve as a viable framework for human endeavor in modern society. Subramanyan brings his trademark candor, lucidity, and wisdom to these reflections and responses.

DKK 139.00
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Rue Traversiere - Yves Bonnefoy - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Rue Traversiere - Yves Bonnefoy - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A beautiful collection of poems from various styles and genres by France's foremost poet, Yves Bonnefoy. Praised 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 considered the foremost French poet of his generation. Proving that his prose is just as lyrical, Rue Traversière, written in 1977, is one of his most harmonious works. Each of the fifteen discrete or linked texts, whose lengths range from brief notations to long, intense, self-questioning pages, is a work of art in its own right: brief and richly suggestive as haiku, or long and intricately wrought in syntax and thought; and all are as rewarding in their sounds and rhythms, and their lightning flashes of insight, as any sonnet. “I can write all I like; I am also the person who looks at the map of the city of his childhood and doesn’t understand,” says the section that gives the book its title, as he revisits childhood cityscapes and explores the tricks memory plays on us. A mixture of genres—the prose poem, the personal essay, quasi-philosophical reflections on time, memory, and art—this is a book of both epigrammatic concision and dreamlike narratives that meander with the poet’s thought as he struggles to understand and express some of the undercurrents of human life. The book’s layered texts echo and elaborate on one another, as well as on aspects of Bonnefoy’s own poetics and thought.

DKK 173.00
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Porcelain – Poem on the Downfall of My City - Durs Grunbein - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Porcelain – Poem on the Downfall of My City - Durs Grunbein - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A 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 hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945. Porcelain is a 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 hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945. The book is at once a history and “declaration of love” to the famed “Venice on the Elbe,” so catastrophically razed by British bombs; a musical fusion of eyewitness accounts, family memories, and stories, of monuments and relics; the story of the city’s destiny as seen through a prism of biographical enigmas, its intimate relation to the “white gold” porcelain that made its fortune and reflections on the power and limits of poetry. Musical, fractured, ironic, and elegiac, Porcelain is controversial, too, in setting itself against what Grünbein calls the “myth” of the Germans as innocent victims of a war crime. At the same time, it never loses sight of the horror deliberately visited on an unwitting civilian population, nor the devastation that looms so large in the German memory. Published for the first time in English, on the seventy-fifth year anniversary of the firebombing, this edition contains new images, notes, Grünbein’s own reflections, and an additional canto—an extraordinary act of poetic kintsugi for the fractured remains of Dresden’s memory.

DKK 176.00
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Porcelain - Durs Grunbein - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Porcelain - Durs Grunbein - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A 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 hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945. Porcelain is a 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 hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945. The book is at once a history and “declaration of love” to the famed “Venice on the Elbe,” so catastrophically razed by British bombs; a musical fusion of eyewitness accounts, family memories, and stories, of monuments and relics; the story of the city’s destiny as seen through a prism of biographical enigmas, its intimate relation to the “white gold” porcelain that made its fortune and reflections on the power and limits of poetry. Musical, fractured, ironic, and elegiac, Porcelain is controversial, too, in setting itself against what Grünbein calls the “myth” of the Germans as innocent victims of a war crime. At the same time, it never loses sight of the horror deliberately visited on an unwitting civilian population, nor the devastation that looms so large in the German memory. Published for the first time in English, on the seventy-fifth year anniversary of the firebombing, this edition contains new images, notes, Grünbein’s own reflections, and an additional canto—an extraordinary act of poetic kintsugi for the fractured remains of Dresden’s memory.

DKK 167.00
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Stigmata of Bliss - Klaus Merz - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Stigmata of Bliss - Klaus Merz - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Klaus 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 narratives with lyrical prose and striking images. Stigmata of Bliss brings together three of Merz’s critically acclaimed novellas, offering English readers the perfect introduction to his work. Jacob Asleep introduces a family marked by illness, eccentricity, and a child’s death. In A Man’s Fate, a moment of inattention on a mountainous hike upends a teacher’s life and his understanding of mortality. And finally, The Argentine traces the fluctuations of memory and desire in a man’s journey around the world. In each novella, Merz takes readers on a profound and intimate journey. Read as a whole, the works complement, enrich, and echo each other.

DKK 139.00
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Stigmata of Bliss - Merz Klaus - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Stigmata of Bliss - Merz Klaus - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Klaus 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 narratives with lyrical prose and striking images. Stigmata of Bliss brings together three of Merz's critically acclaimed novellas, offering English readers the perfect introduction to his work.Jacob Asleep introduces a family marked by illness, eccentricity, and a child's death. In A Man's Fate, a moment of inattention on a mountainous hike upends a teacher's life and his understanding of mortality. And finally, The Argentine traces the fluctuations of memory and desire in a man's journey around the world. In each novella, Merz takes readers on a profound and intimate journey. Read as a whole, the works complement, enrich, and echo each other.

DKK 193.00
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Where the Bird Disappeared - Ghassan Zaqtan - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Where the Bird Disappeared - Ghassan Zaqtan - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Winner of the 2019 Palestine Book Awards Translation Prize. This lyrical novel, set in the surroundings of the Palestinian village of Zakariyya, weaves a narrative rich in sensory detail yet troubled by the porousness of memory. It tells the story of the relationship between two figures of deep mythical resonance in the region, Yahya and Zakariyya, figures who live in the present but bear the names-and many traits-of two saints. Ranging from today back to pre-1948 Palestine, the book presents both a compelling portrait of a contemporary village and a sacred geography that lies beyond and beneath the present state of the world. Sensual, rich in allusion, yet at the same time focused on the struggles of today, Where the Bird Disappeared is a powerful novel of both connection and dispossession

DKK 167.00
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The Holocaust as Culture - Imre Kertesz - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Holocaust as Culture - Imre Kertesz - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Hungarian Imre Kertész was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for “writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.” His conversation with literary historian Thomas Cooper that is presented here speaks specifically to this relationship between the personal and the historical. In The Holocaust as Culture,Kertész recalls his childhood in Buchenwald and Auschwitz and as a writer living under the so-called soft dictatorship of communist Hungary. Reflecting on his experiences of the Holocaust and the Soviet occupation of Hungary following World War II, Kertész likens the ideological machinery of National Socialism to the oppressive routines of life under communism. He also discusses the complex publication history of Fateless, his acclaimed novel about the experiences of a Hungarian child deported to Auschwitz, and the lack of interest with which it was initially met in Hungary due to its failure to conform to the communist government’s simplistic history of the relationship between Nazi occupiers and communist liberators. The underlying theme in the dialogue between Kertész and Cooper is the difficulty of mediating the past and creating models for interpreting history, and how this challenges ideas of self. The title The Holocaust as Culture is taken from that of a talk Kertész gave in Vienna for a symposium on the life and works of Jean Améry. That essay is included here, and it reflects on Améry’s fear that history would all too quickly forget the fates of the victims of the concentration camps. Combined with an introduction by Thomas Cooper, the thoughts gathered here reveal Kertész’s views on the lengthening shadow of the Holocaust as an ever-present part of the world’s cultural memory and his idea of the crucial functions of literature and art as the vessels of this memory.

DKK 123.00
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The Spirits of the Earth - Catherine Colomb - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Spirits of the Earth - Catherine Colomb - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Swiss novelist Catherine Colomb is known as one of the most unusual and inventive francophone novelists of the twentieth century. Fascinated by the processes of memory and consciousness, she has been compared to that of Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust. The Spirits of the Earth is the first English translation of Colomb's work and its arrival will introduce new readers to an iconic novel.The Spirits of the Earth is at heart a family drama, set at the Fraidaigue ch teau, along the shores of Lake Geneva, and in the Maison d'en Haut country mansion, located in the hills above the lake. In these luxe locales, readers encounter upper-class characters with faltering incomes, parvenues, and even ghosts. Throughout, Colomb builds a psychologically penetrating and bold story in which the living and the dead intermingle and in which time itself is a mystery.

DKK 212.00
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Kaddish - Jan Kott - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Kaddish - Jan Kott - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Tadeusz 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 culture and incorporated many elements of Jewish theater into his works. In Kaddish, Jan Kott, an equally important figure in twentieth-century theater criticism, presents one of the most poignant descriptions of what might be called “the experience of Kantor.” At the core of the book is a fundamental philosophical question: What can save the memory of Kantor’s “Theatre of Death”—the Image, or the Word/Logos? Kott’s biblical answer in Kaddish is that Kantor’s theatre can be saved in its essence only by the Word, the Logos. This slim volume, Kott’s final work, is a distilled meditation that casts light on how two of the most prominent figures in Western theater reflected on the philosophy of the stage.

DKK 181.00
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The Blue Light - Hussein Barghouthi - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Blue Light - Hussein Barghouthi - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Blue Light is an autobiographical novel in chapters and vignettes that travels through memory, time, and language. Hussein Bargouthi tells his story with Bari, a Turkish American Sufi, during Bargouthi’s years as a graduate student at the University of Washington in the late 1980s. The Blue Light has several beginnings and many returns—from Beirut’s traumatic sea to musings on color and identity, from Buddhist paths to Rajneesh disciples, from military rule to colonial insanity, from drug addiction to sacred rock. Written and lived between Arabic and English, this is a unique book whose depth is as clear as its surface. It will tempt you to dismiss it as it compels you to devour it for illumination. Merging memoir with fiction, and the hallowed with the profane, The Blue Light is a meditation on and liberation from madness—a brilliant, inimitable literary achievement.

DKK 191.00
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Gold Sand, Gold Water - Nalini Bera - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Gold Sand, Gold Water - Nalini Bera - Bog - Seagull Books London Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A river that once carried gold now bears the weight of memory and the struggles of those who call its banks home. The Subarnarekha River shimmers with legend; once said to carry flecks of gold, it remains a source of both promise and hardship for those who live along its banks. In Gold Sand, Gold Water, Nalini Bera conjures a world where folklore and reality flow together, and forbidden love defies caste. Through the eyes of young Lolin, we witness the daily struggles of the Hatua people—part of the marginalized Adivasi and Dalit communities—as they navigate a world where ancient traditions are slowly being eroded by modern industry. The novel paints an intimate, kaleidoscopic portrait of a vanishing way of life. Lyrical and haunting, Gold Sand, Gold Water is an essential addition to Bengali literature in translation—one that ensures these overlooked stories, like the river itself, continue to flow.

DKK 225.00
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