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A Breathless Hush in the Close Morgan, Ann
A Breathless Hush in the Close is Ann Morgan’s first novel and takes its title from Henry Newbolt’s well-known late nineteenth century poem Vitaï Lampada. The lines 'Play up! Play up! and ...
A gyerek Háy, János
Yet that wasn’t what he became. He could have, but didn’t. The novel conjures up possible paths and visions of successful lives, but then leaves them not only unfulfilled but lets them succumb ...
Nebe pod Berlínem Rudiš, Jaroslav
First published in 2002, Jaroslav Rudiš’ debut book Nebe pod Berlínem (The Sky under Berlin) is a very refreshing piece of literature and was an immediate success. It received the Orten ...
The White Tiger Adiga, Aravind
The trouble with reading a book that has just won the Booker Prize is that it is impossible to start reading it without certain expectations. To have won such a prestigious award the book must ...
No God in Sight Tyrewala, Altaf
The Berliner Künstlerprogramm of DAAD writes about Atlaf Tyerwalas novel: Homesickness led this young Indian author to literature: born in 1977 in Mumbai (until ...
Neunprozentiger Haushaltessig Maljartschuk, Tanja
Tanja Maljartschuk’s prose texts are accounts of broken lives in the rural province – for instance, in the village of Samagurka or in the street in the Murawjow-Batterie. People are lonely, ...
Buch der Dinge Šteger, Aleš
What do we know of things? What do we know of their secrets and motives that are only clear to those who are observant? Aleš Šteger is one of those people. His poetry volume “Knjiga reč” ...
Der Turm Tellkamp, Uwe
Uwe Tellkamp’s big pre-unification novel “Der Turm” (“The Tower”) uses a multitude of scenarios, images and forms of speech to depict a panoramic view of a society that spirals downwards ...
Hundezeiten Trojanow, Ilija
The situation is dire. There is no hope. This is how Ilija Trojanow describes life in Bulgaria in his reportage “Hundezeiten”. A country, more especially, his own homeland is utterly destitute ...
Lichter in Menlo Park Urweider, Raphael (Lights in Menlo Park)
Raphael Urweider’s volume of poetry «Lights in Menlo Park» captures the world in its material guise. He finds a commanding and mature voice to write about continents, clouds, nature and all ...
Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel
Some time around the beginning of the eighteenth century, story-telling changed. It didn’t happen all at once – these things rarely do – but steadily and irrevocably narrative poems and ...
Jenseits von Wurst und Käse Politycki, Matthias
Matthias Politycki is a poet who writes in the knowledge that he belongs to a long tradition: Goethe, Heine, Morgenstern, and Politycki. For him, pertinacity is an aesthetic obligation and he ...
Fuck you, Eu.ro.Pa! Esinencu, Nicoleta (Aus dem Rumän. von Helga Kopp)
“Everyday life in Moldavia is extremely brutal – if I had to explain how it is, one to one, I’d have to become even more coarse. We have a massive identity crisis, and we are Europe’s ...
Wie im Wald Klar, Elisabeth
When Karin invites her foster sister Lisa to move back with her and her boyfriend Alexander to their childhood home, Lisa agrees right away. Their parents have died and their siblings have all ...
Steiners Geschichte Göttfert, Constantin
The Long Shadows of the Past Constantin Göttfert is a sensitive storyteller who gives his characters the room they need to unload their weighty stories. The subject of “Steiners ...
Räuberhände Heinrich, Finn-Ole
Janik’s parents are very good people: decent and fair in their actions. So it goes without saying that Janik’s friend Samuel can sleep over or even live at their house. Samuel doesn’t know ...
I skuggan av ett brott Henschen, Helena
Helena Henschen's novel I skuggan av ett brott ( The Shadow of a Crime , 2004) is an outstanding debut about a family tragedy. Henschen skillfully brings together fact and fiction in a ...
zwischen Pfeifer, Judith Nika
Tales from an indecisive life The title of poet Judith Nika Pfeifer’s first prose collection – zwischen (between) – is unpretentious, even restrained. It calls to mind an intermediate ...
Wandlungen des Prinzen Genji Federmair, Leopold
“Took the train to Miyajimaguchi, about an hour on the Sanyo line, in one of the carriages that have been in use for five or six decades.” We are in Japan, along with a protagonist who ...
Die Seelensucherin Fioretos, Aris
Aris Fioretos' fascinating novel Stockholm Noir – a much more fitting title for this tale of strange encounters and wrong perceptions than the German Die Seelensucherin ( The Soul Seeker ) ...
Bis auf die Knochen Ritte, Jürgen (Hg. von Jürgen Ritte)
The OuLiPo workshop and its best-known representatives, Queneau, Pastior or Perec are like a kitchen where language is constantly being cooked up. Therefore, it is no accident that the “workshop ...
Kindheitswald Laznia, Elke
“Writing holds my hand” How does the past smell? Like the green moss of the titular “childhood forest”? Or the gray dust of the childhood home, casting inward shadows? The important ...
Texas Rose Plambeck, Dy
A wonderful, well-written and wistful must-read about Aunt Lillian, a colourful go-getter and unruly, exuberant Western enthusiast. We first meet her in 1987 at the age of forty, when together ...
Unsicherer Grund Neeser, Andreas
A narrator remembers a football game when he was at school, while he was silently watching a beautiful woman in the swimming pool. Or he goes to the theatre in the evening and his heart almost ...
Das Fell der Tante Meri Bauer, Theodora
At the beginning, everything is up in the air. Theodora Bauer’s cryptically titled novel, “Das Fell der Tante Meri” (“Aunt Meri’s Fur”), narrates the story of three characters - ...
Sindets tremmer Gudmundsson, Einar Mar (Oversat af Erik Skyum Nielsen)
Autobiographical novel about the author's alcoholism and his treatment, during which he meets Einar Thor Jonsson, an alcoholic and drug addict. A magical, life-affirming story about the road into ...
Orizzonte mobile Del Giudice, Daniele
As he narrates his own Antarctic expedition, Daniele Del Giudice recalls the notebooks of other courageous expeditions that are unknown to most, with shipwrecks, ships stuck for months behind ice, ...
Vom Gebrauch der Wünsche Mischkulnig, Lydia
This book starts off explosively. The setting is an estate in Sievering, an outer district of Vienna. This is “the erstwhile property of a displaced family,” where young Leon and his mother go ...
Der Allesforscher Steinfest, Heinrich
The title of Heinrich Steinfest’s new novel could be translated as ‘The Everything Researcher.’ But what does that mean exactly - someone who researches everything that has ever existed, or ...
Cross Channel Barnes, Julian
Like many readers, I first discovered Julian Barnes through his inspired third book, Flaubert's Parrot , but have found it hard not to feel that his more recent novels have failed to live up to ...
Graphic Novel / Bandes dessinées
Documentation Graphic Novel / Bandes dessinées
Die Europäischen Literaturtage 2013 diskutierten den Bereich des Graphic Novel. Das dazu eröffnete Archiv versammelt Buchempfehlungen von readme.cc Usern. Besprechungen, die unter dem Stichwort "Comics" abgespeichert werden, erweitern das Archiv.
