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The Class
Written by Francois Begaudeau
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $17.95
Winner of the Prix France Culture/Télérama prize, The Class explores timely issues of race, class, identity, colonial history, immigration, and education, “suspend[ing] judgment and liberat[ing] the raw words of kids in a deconsecrated classroom” (Le Monde). The novel’s eponymous film version, directed by Laurent Cantet, starring author Bégaudeau as himself, won... Read more >
Written by Francois Begaudeau
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $17.95
Winner of the Prix France Culture/Télérama prize, The Class explores timely issues of race, class, identity, colonial history, immigration, and education, “suspend[ing] judgment and liberat[ing] the raw words of kids in a deconsecrated classroom” (Le Monde). The novel’s eponymous film version, directed by Laurent Cantet, starring author Bégaudeau as himself, won... Read more >
The Class
Written by Francois Begaudeau
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: eBook
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
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Written by Francois Begaudeau
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: eBook
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
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Evolution
Written by Jean-Baptiste De Panafieu
Photographed by Patrick Gries
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: November 15, 2011
Price: $45.00
Spectacular, mysterious, elegant, or grotesque, the vertebrate skeletons of Earth’s fossil record carry within them the traces of several billion years of evolution. Evolution, a resounding success on its initial publication in 2007, is a unique and beautiful attempt to provide a map of those billion years in time.
Here is a... Read more >
Written by Jean-Baptiste De Panafieu
Photographed by Patrick Gries
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: November 15, 2011
Price: $45.00
Spectacular, mysterious, elegant, or grotesque, the vertebrate skeletons of Earth’s fossil record carry within them the traces of several billion years of evolution. Evolution, a resounding success on its initial publication in 2007, is a unique and beautiful attempt to provide a map of those billion years in time.
Here is a... Read more >
Memoirs of a Breton Peasant
Written by Jean-Marie Deguignet
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $19.95
A fascinating document of an extraordinary life, Memoirs of A Breton Peasant reads with the liveliness of a novel and bristles with the vigor of an opinionated autodidact from the very lowest level of peasant society. Brittany during the nineteenth century was a place seemingly frozen in the Middle Ages, backwards... Read more >
Written by Jean-Marie Deguignet
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $19.95
A fascinating document of an extraordinary life, Memoirs of A Breton Peasant reads with the liveliness of a novel and bristles with the vigor of an opinionated autodidact from the very lowest level of peasant society. Brittany during the nineteenth century was a place seemingly frozen in the Middle Ages, backwards... Read more >
Memoirs of a Breton Peasant
Written by Jean-Marie Deguignet
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: eBook
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $19.95
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Written by Jean-Marie Deguignet
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: eBook
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $19.95
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Memoirs of a Breton Peasant
Written by Jean-Marie Deguignet
Edited by Bernez Rouz
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: February 3, 2004
Price: $27.95
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Written by Jean-Marie Deguignet
Edited by Bernez Rouz
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: February 3, 2004
Price: $27.95
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The Case of Dr. Sachs
A Novel
Written by Martin Winckler
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: September 4, 2001
Price: $16.95
•Winner of the Prix du Livre
•Winner of the 2000 French-American Foundation Translation Award
Bruno Sachs is a country doctor who makes house calls and feels deeply for his patients. There are broken bones, unwanted pregnancies, people without the will to live, a friend dying of cancer. His pity for his fellow creatures... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Martin Winckler
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: September 4, 2001
Price: $16.95
•Winner of the Prix du Livre
•Winner of the 2000 French-American Foundation Translation Award
Bruno Sachs is a country doctor who makes house calls and feels deeply for his patients. There are broken bones, unwanted pregnancies, people without the will to live, a friend dying of cancer. His pity for his fellow creatures... Read more >
The Case of Dr. Sachs
A Novel
Written by Martin Winckler
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: November 7, 2000
Price: $27.95
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A Novel
Written by Martin Winckler
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: November 7, 2000
Price: $27.95
Read more >
The Case of Dr. Sachs
A Novel
Written by Martin Winckler
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: eBook
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
Read more >
A Novel
Written by Martin Winckler
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: eBook
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
Read more >
