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Collected Short Stories 2008-2024
In 1920's Berlin, the recovered diaries of transgender model Heike expose her as the mysterious muse and subject behind Christian Schad's best-known painting. After signing her Gender Recognition Certificate, a trans woman channels the offbeat glamour of a forgotten movie star at a Brighton gay bar. A well-known journalist finds herself ....
Autor_innen: Jacques, Juliet
A landmark in feminist literature, The Women’s Room is a biting social commentary of a world gone silently haywire. Written in the 1970s but with profound resonance today, this is a modern allegory that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted blindly and revered so completely.It follows the transformation of Mira Ward and ....
Autor_innen: French, Marilyn
The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endure and remember heart-break, loss, radical change and stifling conformity, marriage and regret. Written in 1937, this was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's ....
Autor_innen: Woolf, Virginia
One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, "Their Eyes Were Watching God" brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female ....
Autor_innen: Hurston, Zora Neale
Es war schon gegen Nachmittag, als ich wieder den Taksim überquerte und bald darauf unten beim Fischmarkt anlangte. Da die Restaurants entlang der Brücke ihre Preise der gehobenen Klasse angepasst hatten, schlenderte ich an den eleganten Lokalen im unteren Brückenbereich vorbei, stieg dann die Treppe hinauf und war bald bei der ....
Autor_innen: Henisch, Sonja
Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists
Through stories at once poetic and poignant "There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart" offers a powerful elixir for all who rebel against systemic violence and injustice. The contemporary renewal of Jewish anarchism draws on a history of suffering, ranging from enslavement and displacement to white nationalism and genocide. Yet it also ....
Autor_innen: Milstein, Cindy (Hg.)
An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
This Arab is queer, proud, profound, curious, content, angry - a force for change. This Arab cannot be put in a box, closet or kept out by damaging stereotypes, regimes or orthodoxy. Elevating 18 writers from around the world, this ground-breaking anthology of short memoirs and essays is for anyone who finds reductionist identity politics ....
Autor_innen: Jahshan, Elias (Ed.)
Here we meet Tambudzai, living in a youth hostel in downtown Harare after leaving a stagnant job. Proud, and yearning for success, Tambu attempts to make a new life for herself - but at every turn, she is faced with a fresh humiliation, until the contrast between the future she imagined and her daily reality ultimately drives her to a ....
Autor_innen: Dangarembga, Tsitsi
Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. She has gained admirers among authors--Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Messud, to name a few--and critics--James Wood, John ....
Autor_innen: Ferrante, Elena
Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The novel's opening section teems with the noise, complications, bruised emotions, joys and quiet tragedies of everyday family life that might go on forever. But time passes, bringing with it war and death, and the ....
Autor_innen: Woolf, Virginia
Elinor und Toby sind Schwester und Bruder, Freunde und engste Vertraute. Im Jahrhundertsommer 1912 verbringen sie eine Nacht gemeinsam in Tobys Zimmer. Ihr Geheimnis nimmt Elinor später mit an die Slade School of Fine Art in London, wo sie Kunst studiert, während Toby im Royal Army Medical Corps in den Schützengräben Frankreichs dient. ....
Autor_innen: Barker, Pat
Mit Alma Lazarevskas Tod im Museum für Moderne Kunst wird einer der wichtigsten Prosatexte zeitgenössischer bosnischer Literatur nun vollständig in deutscher Übersetzung zugänglich gemacht. Entstanden sind die sechs durch die Stimme der Ich-Erzählerin lose miteinander verwobenen Erzählungen während der 1400 Tage dauernden Belagerung ....
Autor_innen: Lazarevska, Alma
