Das Marchen «Die Geschichte von der abgehauenen Hand» handelt von dem aus Konstantinopel stammenden Zaleukos. Da er Arzt werden soll, schickt ihn sein Vater zum Studium nach Paris. Er zieht als fahrender Arzt und Handler durch Frankreich und Italien, wo er von einem maskierten Mann einen sonderbaren Auftrag erhalt … Hubertus Gertzen liest eines der spannendsten Marchen von Wilhelm Hauff in einer ungekurzten Version. ...
Kicked out of her house because her father can no longer tolerate her constant delinquency, Roxy wanders the streets of New York, living in a fleabag hotel. Spotted by an 'agent' for Madam Brittany, a sophisticated woman who runs an escort service, Roxy is taken into the Madam's 'training program' where she is educated and set up with her own boutique apartment. When Roxy takes her sister in after their parents' dea ...
An explosive literary debut about a young woman coming into her own power in the face of religious extremism, addiction, sexual abuse, and abandonment, Godshot is an unforgettable novel of resilience, poverty, womanhood, and strength found where you least expect it Godshot is propulsive and heart-breaking and bursting with sentences to slay you, to make you gasp with how Chelsea Bieker renders detail. Bieker is a writer who gives Flannery O’ ...
[b]Winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize and named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews NATIONAL BESTSELLER "An innovative reimagining of the family saga. . . there is no doubt that this is a contemporary novel, insistent and alive . . . Celestial Bodies is itself a treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets." — The New York Times Book Revi ...
A pillar of American literature, Mark Twain's prototypical coming-of-age introduces the iconic Tom Sawyer and his best friend Huckleberry Finn. Tom's panache for mischief and unyielding desire for adventure commonly leads him into trouble, but quick wits and a smooth tongue always navigates him to safety. When Tom and Huck witness a murder and the culpable Injun Joe escapes justice, Tom, who testified against the bandit, is left to won ...
Der Klassiker in einer neuen, frischen Version von Thomas Tippner nach dem gleichnamigen Jugendbuch von Mark Twain. Tom Sawyer und seine Freunde erleben einen abenteuerlichen Sommer am Mississippi. ...
Debut novel from someone firmly entrenched in the LA arts scene. Jepsen has acted in the Emmy-Award winning show Transparent and a web series with Beth Lisick on ( Transparent creator) Jill Soloway's site, wifey.tv. She's also appeared in music videos for Peaches and the band Two Gallants. Jepsen's novel is from the point of view of a female skater, the culture of female skaters in particular was recently covered in the New Yo ...
Kim Yideum has an international presence, having read at the Stockholm International Poetry Festival in 2014 and Biennale Internationale des Poetes en Val-de-Marne in 2015. She was a writer-in-residence at the Free University of Berlin through Arts Council Korea, and at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. She is considered one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Korean and feminist poetry, having received her PhD for a thesis on Kor ...
Zahia Rahmani was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and as a member of the College of the Diversity. She was awarded Special Mention Prize by the Prix Wepler-Fondation La Poste for Muslim: A Novel ; the prize is given annually to a book that displays an «audacity, an excess, a singularity that escapes commercial purviews.» She is considered one of France’s leading art historians and writers, and is currently a visiting professor at NYU’s ...