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The Bossale Civilisation

Condé, Maryse / Nathanaël
The Bossale Civilisation
The Bossale Civilisation, first published in 1978, is as relevant today as when it first appeared. It illumines History as to its calculated falsehoods, and the persistence, through care and attentiveness, of what can only be qualified as the Truth. The Bossale is the African slave deported by the Atlantic Slave Trade into the plantations of Martinique and Guadeloupe, and who, from out ofhis and her struggles, sufferings and hopes, will create...

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Mysteries of My Land

Baraheni, Reza / Baraheni, Aleca
Mysteries of My Land
Hossein Tanzifi, a young English interpreter for American advisors in Iran, is caught at a crossroads when he witnesses the assassination of an American adviser by thirteen army officers. Hossein, who had no role in the incident, is sentenced to life in prison. Fourteen people were executed for the murder and he is the only one who knows what happened and who is covering it up. Eighteen years later, during the Iranian revolution, Hossein is re...

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The Magnetic Earth

Glissant, Édouard / Séma-Glissant, Sylvie / Nathanaël
The Magnetic Earth
Sylvie and Édouard Glissant's intention was not to add hypotheses to those many that have attempted to pierce the mystery of Easter island. They wanted to touch imaginatively the stirring of a place that is both primordial and yet so contemporary, tormented and yet liberated, solitary and yet not alone, whose population, descended from a unique and legendary stock, today enjoys a peaceful existence based on its very diversity and its relations...

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The Empty Room

Abbas, Sadia
The Empty Room
In 1970s Karachi, where violence and political and social uncertainty are on the rise, a beautiful and talented painter, Tahira, tries to hold her life together as it Shatters around her. Her marriage is quickly revealed to be a trap from which there appears no escape. Accustomed to the company of her brother Waseem and friends, Andaleep and Safdar, who are activists, writers and thinkers, Tahira struggles to adapt to her new world of stifling...

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Diamanda Galás

Mavrikakis, Catherine / Nathanaël
Diamanda Galás
An exercise in admiration, this book takes a look at the petrifying work of Diamanda Galás, the singer with three octaves. Far from being dumbfounded by Galás and her voice, Catherine Mavrikakis takes the artist's work head-on. From ancient Greece to the suburban United States, from the Armenian genocide to the AIDS epidemic of the 80s and 90s, Galás is constantly renewing herself.

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Vulnerable Point, 1949: Fourteen Poems of Youth

Kachtitsis, Nikos
Vulnerable Point, 1949: Fourteen Poems of Youth
Re-issued by Quattro Books in a new quadrilingual edition (English, French, Greek, Italian), the poetry of Nikos Kachtitsis is an essential read for those wishing to discover one of the most formidable and enigmatic voices in twentieth-century Greek and Canadian letters.

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Cosecant Hyperbole

Marchionni, Angela / Basile, Elena
Cosecant Hyperbole
Written in the aftermath of a protracted illness and the sudden loss of two friends who had been companions on an intimate journey of healing, Marchionni's poems enact a generative conversation between the abstractions of mathematics and the polysemic openings of poetic writing (and artistic practice in general) in an effort to loosen their entanglements with the most devastating vectors of contemporary technological and economic reasoning. Th...

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