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  • The Map and the Territory

    by Michel Houellebecq ...
    Translated by Gavin Bowd ...
    Series series Vintage International
    The most celebrated and controversial French novelist of our time now delivers his magnum opus—about art and money, love and friendship and death, fathers and sons.The Map and the Territory is the story of an artist, Jed Martin, and his family and lovers and friends, the arc of his entire history rendered with sharp humor and powerful compassion. His earliest photographs, of countless industrial ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Chastellart

    by Gavin Bowd ...
    St Andrews, 1563. In a town gripped by Reformation, a baying crowd awaits the execution of Pierre de Chastellart, a French Huguenot poet. From afar, Mary Queen of Scots watches his tortured figure declaim Ronsard's 'Hymn to Death'. But why is the young man being publicly beheaded for high treason? This lyrical and violent novel follows Chastellart and Mary between a France descending into ... Read more

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  • Triumph Street, Bucharest

    by Dov Hoenig ...
    Translated by Gavin Bowd ...
    Bucharest, before and during World War II, where Bernard Davidescou lives with his parents and his older brother on Triumph Street, in the middle of a courtyard block inhabited by a dozen Jewish families and two Christian ones. When Romania, under General Ion Antonescu's dictatorship, allies itself with Hitler and invades the USSR, the Jews in Bucharest face the threat of being sent to the Nazi ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Communard

    Adrien Lejeune, the Unexpected Life of a Revolutionary

    by Gavin Bowd ...
    The story of an unexpected heroThe Last Communard offers a brilliant, striking portrait of revolutionary Europe through a remarkable personal story.In 1871, Adrien Lejeune fought on the barricades of the Paris Commune. He was imprisoned for treason when the Commune fell and narrowly avoided execution for his role in the struggle for a new future. In later life, he immigrated to Soviet Russia, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Possibility of an Island

    by Michel Houellebecq ...
    Translated by Gavin Bowd ...
    A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Camus, Michel Houellebecq now delivers his magnum opus–a tale of our present circumstances told from the future, when humanity as we know it has vanished.Surprisingly poignant, philosophically compelling, and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, The Possibility of an Island is at once an indictment, an elegy, and a celebration of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Fascist Scotland

    Caledonia and the Far Right

    by Gavin Bowd ...
    On 10 May 1941, Rudolf Hess, Deputy Fuhrer of the Third Reich, entered Scottish airspace in an ill-fated attempt to discuss peace with the Duke of Hamilton. For the Nazis, Hess was the victim of 'tragic hallucinations'. But how far had Hess really flown from reality?Although Fascism in Britain is normally associated with England, and especially the East End of London, and even then dismissed as a ... Read more

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  • HAPPY DAYS IN TEL-AVIV

    Chronicles

    by MARCO KOSKAS, Gavin BOWD ...
    Tel Aviv had already inspired his novel Bande de Français (Goodbye Paris Shalom TelAviv in English), published in 2018. This time, Marco Koskas offers in the form of chronicles all he knows about a city so unique that it has been nicknamed ‘the bubble’. Everything about its cafés and its central station, its magical swimming pools and its roof parties.It’s also the city of girls in shorts and ... Read more

    $5.82 USD

  • Vlad

    by Gavin Bowd ...
    God Does Not Love The WorkersThe sewers of Bucharest, Romania, Christmas 1989. Vlad and other Securitate secret police comrades fan out across a city about to fall to counter-revolution.The show trial and execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu are broadcast on television. Vlad, raised as an assassin in a Securitate orphanage in Targoviste, home of Vlad the Impaler, vows to avenge the death of ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Journal of Romanian Studies

    Volume 1,2 (2019)

    by Svetlana Suveica, Lucian Leuștean, Florian Kührer-Wielach, Gavin Bowd, Gábor Egry, Doina Anca Cretu ...
    Series Book 1.2 - Journal of Romanian Studies
    The new biannual, peer-reviewed Journal of Romanian Studies, jointly developed by The Society for Romanian Studies and ibidem Press, examines critical issues in Romanian studies, linking work in that field to wider theoretical debates and issues of current relevance, and serving as a forum for junior and senior scholars. The journal also presents articles that connect Romania and Moldova ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Impure and Worldly Geography

    Pierre Gourou and Tropicality

    by Gavin Bowd, Daniel Clayton ...
    Series series Studies in Historical Geography
    Tropicality is a centuries-old Western discourse that treats otherness and the exotic in binary – ‘us’ and ‘them’ – terms. It has long been implicated in empire and its anxieties over difference. However, little attention has been paid to its twentieth-century genealogy.This book explores this neglected history through the work of Pierre Gourou, one of the century’s foremost purveyors of what anti ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Journal of Romanian Studies

    Volume 1,1 (2019)

    by Katherine Verdery, Vintila Mihailescu, Dennis Deletant, Maria Bucur, Marius Stan, Vladimir Tismaneanu ...
    Series Book 1.1 - Journal of Romanian Studies
    Contents Vintilă Mihăilescu A Subjective Centenary: The Peasant Footprint in Recent Romanian History Katherine Verdery Notes on a Century of Surveillance Dennis Deletant Shattered Illusions: Britain and Iuliu Maniu, 1940–1945 Maria Bucur The Queen Is No Sister: Three Faces of Marie of Romania Marius Stan and Vladimir Tismaneanu Stalinism and Anti-Stalinism in Romania: The Case of Alexandru Jar ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The End of the Affair

    by Graham Greene ...
    Graham Greene's masterful novel of love and betrayal in World War II London is "undeniably a major work of art" ( The New Yorker ).Maurice Bendrix, a writer in Clapham during the Blitz, develops an acquaintance with Sarah Miles, the bored, beautiful wife of a dull civil servant named Henry. Maurice claims it's to divine a character for his novel-in-progress. That's the first deception. What he ... Read more

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