Eine große europäisch-jüdische Familiensaga – eine schillernde Geschichte über Liebe und die befreiende Kraft der HoffnungKopenhagen zwischen den Weltkriegen: Die politischen Entwicklungen der späten 1930er Jahre stehen unmittelbar bevor, doch noch ist die Wohnung der Koppelmans voller Trubel, Verwandter, Gespräche und Musik.
A sumptuous and surreal historical reimagining of one of South America s best-known trans men, Antonio de ErausoThe new novel from the International Booker-shortlisted author of The Adventures of China Iron'Cabez n C mara s historical fiction plays out like confession or revelation.
In der Lyrik der Gegenwart ist Alice Oswalds Werk einzigartig; ein Plädoyer für die Dimension des Hörens, ein Lauschen auf die feinen lautlichen Differenzen und ein Rückgriff auf eine Lyrik, deren lebendige Farbigkeit sie für uns neu entdeckt: Homer steht wieder am Horizont.
On a Clear April Morning, by Marcos Iolovitch, is a lyrical and riveting coming of age story set among early twentieth-century settlers brought to an almost unknown Jewish farming experiment in an isolated corner of Brazil.
Gabon's first female novelist, Angele Rawiri probed deeper into the issues that writers a generation before her-Mariama Ba and Aminata Sow Fall-had begun to address.
Eine atmosphärisch dichte Familiengeschichte auf einer abgelegenen Insel Norwegens – mit sezierender poetischer Erzählkunst gelingt es Sem-Sandberg, das Schweigen über die Vergangenheit zu brechen.
Based on the true, still-unfolding story of the expelled Chagossians' fight for their homeland, Silence of the Chagos is a powerful exploration of cultural identity, the concept of home, and above all the neverending desire for justice.
Dovlatovand Surroundings is a literary ode by one of the mostconsequential late 20th-century Russian writers, Alexander Genis, toanother: Sergei Dovlatov.
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONONE OF THE 50 MOST IMPORTANT ARABIC NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (THE NATIONAL)PalestinianArmenian Ivana eloped with a British doctor in the 1940s, in the midst of the Nakba, and emigrated to England.
First published in 1936, The People of Godlbozhits depicts the ordinary yet deeply complex life of a Jewish community, following the fortunes of one family and its many descendants.
While the marquis de Sade was drafting The 120 Days of Sodom in the Bastille, another libertine marquis in a nearby cell was also writing a novelone equally outrageous, full of sex and slander, and more revealing for what it had to say about the conditions of writers and writing itself.
Mahfouz's last novel, an evocative depiction of life in Egypt in the twentieth century as told through the lives of a group of friends, is now available in paperback for the first time On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby cafe, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever.
Der britische Buchhändlerliebling: Eine Liebeserklärung an das einfache Leben, an menschliche Nähe und an die Schönheit der NaturAls Polly Morland das Haus ihrer Mutter ausräumt, findet sie eine alte Ausgabe von John Bergers Buch »A Fortunate Man«, das von einem Landarzt erzählt, der in einem abgelegenen Tal arbeitete.
A debut collection of darkly humorous, feminist speculative fiction from the Balkans, "e;sly, uncommon stories"e; by "e;a major talent"e; (Jeff VanderMeer, award-winning author of Hummingbird Salamander).
From an assassination attempt by early anarchists to Occupy Wall Street, a novel of radical lives and lovesWhen a Czech historian becomes convinced hes the illegitimate great-grandson of an infamous anarchist who attempted an assassination while living in the United States, he travels to New York to investigate.
Joan Didion kann mit einem einzigen Satz eine Gesellschaft zum Einstürzen bringenDie Christians gehören zu den reichsten und mächtigsten Familien auf Hawaii.
