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The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright

Master storyteller Ngugi wa Thiong'o blends myth and folklore with insight into the human psyche ...

It All Tastes of Farewell: Diaries, 1964-1970

Continuing where Reimann's earlier book of diaries, I Have No Regrets, left off, in 1964, this vo...

The Silences of Hammerstein

The Silences of Hammerstein, the latest work from one of Germany's most significant contemporary ...

I Have No Regrets - Diaries, 1955-1963

Frank and refreshing, Brigitte Reimann's collected diaries provide a candid account of life in so...

All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a For...

Describing the Past

'Originally published in Arabic in 1995'--Title page verso.

The Suspended Passion

Mr Zed’s Reflections

Any new book by poet, essayist, writer, and translator Hans Magnus Enzensberger, one of the most ...

Zurich Transit

This screenplay by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch was developed from an episode in his ...

Goat Days

'In the southern Indian state of Kerala, Najeeb's dearest wish is to work in a Persian Gulf count...

The Unsaddled

A captivating and wide-ranging interpretation of accidental dismounting.  In Pascal Quignard'...

The Idea of India

'Through a stimulating dialogue, two old friends trace the history of the idea of India through d...