Es sind klar und scharf beobachtete, einprägsame Figuren: der Mann mit den Lokomotiven, der Comiczeichner, der abtaucht, die Schauspielerin, die jemandes Seele stiehlt.
A quirky assortment of materialistic suburbanites trying to supersize and spend their way to happinessAn affectionate satire of the culture of self-indulgence, The Final Days of Great American Shopping exposes the American obsessions with money, mass marketing, and material objects.
Celebrate the resilience of the human spirit through the stories of everydayspeople whose ordeals allowed them to experience first-hand the healing powersof second chances.
Verwegen, rotzig, zart: Fragile Intimität und weibliche Selbstfindung in einer Welt voller UngewissheitenEine junge Frau trifft ihren ersten Freund – und dessen Hund Petal, der bald nur noch auf sie hört.
THE CHARACTERS IN SCOTT NADELSONS third collection are living in the wake of momentous events-- the rupture of relationships, the loss of loved ones, the dissolution of dreams, and yet they find new ways of forging on with their lives, making accommodations that are sometimes delusional, sometimes destructive, sometimes even healthy.
Wirklich berühmt wurde Urs Widmer mit seinem Spätwerk: ›Der blaue Siphon‹, ›Der Geliebte der Mutter‹ oder ›Das Buch des Vaters‹ finden auch heute noch viele begeisterte Leserinnen und Leser.
The tie that binds men and women, that makes men do absurd things that they will very likely be sorry for later, is at the center of this prize-winning collection of stories.
Jim Tomlinson's previous book of short stories, Things Kept, Things Left Behind, won the prestigious Iowa Short Fiction Award and received enthusiastic reviews.
Nachtcroupière im Casino, Ärzte in Brasilien, ein Literaturprofessor, ein Formel-1-Fahrer und viele andere unscheinbare und exzentrische Menschen bewohnen die Exotik des Alltags, bringen sich absichtlich in Ausnahmesituationen oder geraten hinein, während sie versuchen, Veränderungen aus dem Weg zu gehen.
In his short life (1865-1921), Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky was a versatile and influential man of letters: an innovative Hebrew prose stylist; a collector of Jewish folklore; a scholar of ancient Jewish and Christian history.
A newborn's absent face appears on the back of someone else's head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he's after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night.
A hotshot young lawyer, burdened by years of guilt and resentment, comes to the aid of his irresponsible kid brother, only to realise he's a pawn in a treacherous scheme.
"e;A mix of such otherworldly scenarios, pop culture references and linguistic inventiveness comes remarkably together for a brazen social and political commentary on modern Mexican reality.
