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Dear friends:

Hope this finds you well.

Zagava proudly announces our next book to be published torwards the end of this month:

“Cannibals of West Papua” by Brendan Connell




"Few indeed have penetrated the remote areas of West Papua, a land abounding in ritual and magic. A breviary of anthropophagy and the supernatural, "Cannibals of West Papua" recounts the remarkable adventures of Fr. Massimo Tetrazzini when he gets drafted into the proselytizing exercises of Dom Duarte Ramiro under the auspices of the Pontifical Mission Guild.
Though "Cannibals of West Papua" is a sequel to "The Translation of Father Torturo", it also acts as a stand alone novel. Where the previous work trembled between gothic horror and decadent giallo, the present treatise veers into unexplored territories of crisis, to the furthest edge of cravings, delivering an indispensible and bloody feast for psychologists, beasts, and epicureans alike."

“Cannibals of West Papua” comes in two stunning editions: 124 numbered and 26 lettered exemplars.

The numbered edition is bound in beautiful dark-green, handmade Asian lokta paper with a leave-pattern unique to each book.
The 26 lettered exemplars are bound in finest dark-green real leather with debossed gilt titles and an embossed leave pattern different from the numbered edition.

A special feature is an affixed ex libris card, hand-signed by Brendan Connell, bearing the number or letter of the book and, if desired, the affix "personal copy of ...." with your name printed on it. Please do kindly let us know (via email to: books@zagava.de), whether you would like to have your name printed on this card.

"Cannibals of West Papua" was printed on environment-friendly FSC-certified paper in a carbon-neutral printing process and is at our new bindery in Duesseldorf already. Shipping will start towards the end of this month.



Next in Zagava's pipeline are a novella by Quentin S. Crisp and then a true tome:

"Booklore - Volume One", a huge collection of the most unusual stories about the most unusual books. The list of contributors is quite eclectic already! Publication is planned for early autumn - more details will follow soon.

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. That is my belief."

Franz Kafka in a letter to his friend Oskar Pollak, 27. January 1905.

"Fanny Sleeping with Book" © by Anthony Christian 2015 (under Fanny's pillow: Reggie Oliver's "Virtue in Danger", published by Zagava in 2013!)


Looking very much forward to hearing from you,
kindest regards,
Jonas
www.zagava.de