Belletristik

Die Weihnachtszeit und die Tage »zwischen den Jahren« sind eine Zeit des Zusammenkommens, eine Zeit des Feierns, Schenkens und Teilens. Und was eignet sich dafür besser als eine gute Geschichte? Jeanette Wintersons Winter- und Weihnachtsgeschichten laden dazu ein, am Kamin gelesen zu werden, zusammen oder allein, im Schnee oder auf dem ....

June Hayward und Athena Liu könnten beide aufstrebende Stars der Literaturszene sein. Doch während die chinesisch-amerikanische Autorin Athena für ihre Romane gefeiert wird, fristet June ein Dasein im Abseits. Niemand interessiert sich für Geschichten »ganz normaler« weißer Mädchen, so sieht es June zumindest.Als June Zeugin wird, wie ....

Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena’s a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks.So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an ....

Wie wird man die Person, die man sein will, ja sein muss? Duygu Agal aus Hamburg hat mit »Yeni Yeserenler« eine Coming Of Age-Geschichte aufgeschrieben, in der Goldene Birkenstocks und anstrengende Alman-Therapeutinnen genauso ihren Platz haben, wie die abweisenden Insignien einer Welt, die nicht für einen gemacht scheint, aber auch ....

The morning Emilie and Sara first meet at Yerba Buena, their connection is immediate. But the damage both women carry, and the choices they have made, pulls them apart again and again. When Sara's old life catches up to her, upending everything she thought she wanted just as Emilie has finally gained her own sense of purpose, they must ....

Thirteen-year-old Meredith yearns to become a teacher but must leave school to help support her family. To find the best paying job for a young girl of her class, she travels to the city to work as household help in a doctor’s home. From the start, her life is made difficult by the cantankerous and prickly butler, and confrontations with ....

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection.The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in ....

From the author of Cat Person - "the short story that launched a thousand theories" (The Guardian) - comes Kristen Roupenian's highly anticipated debut, a compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex - and often darkly funny - connections between gender, sex, and power across genres.

Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again.It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she’s almost a new person now — an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it’s time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. Feyi ....

At an otherwise forgettable party in Los Angeles, a queer Korean American painter spots a woman who instantly controls the room: gorgeous and distant and utterly white, the centre of everyone’s attention. Haunted into adulthood by her Korean father’s abandonment of his family, as well as the spectre of her beguiling, abusive white mother, ....

Als Tochter karibischer Einwanderer wächst Audre Lorde im Harlem der 1940er-Jahre heran. Eine Zeit, die sie eindrucksvoll und zutiefst poetisch heraufbeschwört. Ihre Erinnerungen sind geprägt von bedeutsamen Beziehungen zu Frauen – ihrer Mutter, Freundinnen, Geliebten –, von ihren Erfahrungen in der queeren New Yorker Subkultur aber auch ....

A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a heady swirl of passers-by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the stock market falling, fried bananas, tales of her parents' native Grenada. She trudges to public school along snowy sidewalks, and finds she is tongue-tied, legally blind, left behind by her older sisters. On she ....