For readers of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner comes a ”pacy Lebanese mystery. A man is haunted by his father’s disappearance in this acclaimed debut novel set against the backdrop of Middle Eastern politics" ? The Guardian Samir leaves the safety and comfort of his family’s new homeland, Germany, for volatile Beirut in an attempt to find his missing father. The only clues Samir has are an old picture of his father and the memory of ...
Inventive, dreamy Gieles lives with his father and a flock of geese on a plane-spotters’ campsite next to an airstrip. The surrounding landscape reclaimed from the sea, is as isolated as Gieles himself. The fourteen-year-old boy is longing for the mysterious dreadlocked girl he’s met online, and for the affection of his absent mother, off on hapless missions to save the world. The boy conceives a desperate, dangerous plan to attract his mother’s ...
A European take on the tradition “The Great American Novel’ Has been described as a literary ‘desperate housewives’ and the European answer to Jonathan Franzen. We and Me follows a bourgeois Belgian family over several decades, portraiting how loneliness can thread through even the most intimate of our relationships Lonely in their togetherness, the father is immersed in his high-paying career, the mother spends hours combing her rugs, and their ...
An unforgettable read about lost childhood innocence, isolation, guilt and mother-and son relationships with an AFP of 30,000 Mikael lives with his parents on a remote island somewhere between Scotland and Norway. When his father drowns, the relationship between Mikael and his mother transforms: she slowly starts to unravel, forcing the son to replace his father in every possible way. Incredible endorsement by bestselling author Colm Toibin: “Yo ...
Bei der Recherche fur einen Artikel wird der junge Zeitungsreporter Mr. Allan auf den unglaublichen Bericht einer Auferstehung von den Toten aufmerksam. Einer Dame aus der Bostoner Gesellschaft konnte durch eine wundersame Heilung ihre verstorbene Katze ins Reich der Lebenden zuruckgeholt werden. Bei weiteren Nachforschungen sto?t der ehrgeizige Journalist auf den mysteriosen Arzt Dr. Perry, der mit Hilfe einer Wissenschaft namens Magnetistik to ...
Thomas Edward Lawrence war «Lawrence von Arabien». Der englische Offizier unterstutzte in den Jahren 1917/18 den Aufstand der Araber gegen die turkische Herrschaft. Als Verbindungsmann zur britischen Armee organisierte er zusammen mit Scherif Faisal den arabischen Unabhangigkeitskampf. Seine Guerillataktiken verschafften den Aufstandischen schnell erste Erfolge – die Legende des «Lawrence von Arabien» war geboren. ...
Heinrich von Kleists Prinz Friedrich von Homburg in einer spannenden Horspiel-Fassung fur alle Generationen. Erleben Sie Prinz Friedrich von Homburg von jungen Schauspielern im Original szenisch gelesen und mit lebhaften Horspielszenen illustriert. Ein Erzahler fuhrt durch die Handlung und erlautert das Werk. Heinrich von Kleist (1777 – 1811) sprengt die Grenzen der Deutschen Klassik und Romantik. Zeit seines Lebens fuhlte er sich unverstanden u ...
The author grew up in the only mixed-race family in an all-white suburb; with Mostly White , she speaks to mixed-race experiences many have but do not see widely depicted in literature. A strong theme of institutionalized racism ties in to current nationwide discussions of race and class. The author is well-established in the California literary scene; she has been a featured reader at the LA Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival, the Works/Sa ...
