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Fiction

Our share of happiness

Submitted by Axel Timo Purr on Mon, 07/29/2024 - 10:00
Fiction
Ron Rash
Maryan Harrington
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Ron Rash
Ron Rash's modern version of Romeo and Juliet, "The Caretaker", about an America in the time of the Korean War, shows both tenderly and mercilessly that the present-day divisions in the USA have always been there
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Fiction

Nothing is certain: anytime, anywhere

Submitted by Christoph Nick on Mon, 07/15/2024 - 13:07
Fiction
Alhierd Bacharevič
Julia Cimafiejeva / Voland & Quist
Alhierd Bacharevič's novel "Dogs of Europe" is a kaleidoscope, a hall of mirrors, a rollercoaster, an almost hallucinogenic fantasy. In short: an extraordinary reading experience!
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Fiction

Reality as conjecture

Submitted by Axel Timo Purr on Sat, 06/22/2024 - 04:00
Fiction
Tlotlo Tsamaase
Lorraine Kinnear
Tlotlo Tsamaase's Afro-futuristic dystopia "Womb City" is a furious amalgam of "Minority Report" and cyberpunk classics, but then emancipates itself as confidently as its post-feminist heroine
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Fiction

Language can also be a weapon

Submitted by Christoph Nick on Sun, 04/14/2024 - 04:00
Fiction
Ronya Othmann - Vierundsiebzig
Paula Winkler
In her novel "Vierundsiebzig" (seventy-four), Ronya Othmann comes close to the limit of human suffering. It is an important travel novel on places of crimes against humanity and an impressive journey into the depths of one's own self.
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Fiction

A popular classic as a subversive masterpiece

Submitted by Andrej on Thu, 03/21/2024 - 08:40
Fiction
Percival Everett
Michael Avedon
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Percival Everett
Percival Everett retells Mark Twain's young adult novel Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the slave Jim - "James" is a tragicomic novel about racism, identity, human abysses and friendship
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Fiction

People must be crazy

Submitted by Axel Timo Purr on Thu, 03/21/2024 - 08:39
Fiction
Gaea Schoeter
Sébastien Van Malleghem / Zsolnay
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Gaea Schoeter
"Trophy", Gaea Schoeter's novel about big game hunting and Africa, is an intelligent and passionate introspection into post-colonial sensitivities and a Western morality that has degenerated into a luxury product
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Fiction

Trapped in narratives

Submitted by Axel Timo Purr on Thu, 03/21/2024 - 08:37
Fiction
Yandé Seck
Nils Heck
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Yandé Seck
Yandé Seck's debut novel "White Clouds" masterfully explores the search for identity of two adult sisters with a migrant background without losing sight of the ambivalent, woke German present
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Fiction

Songs for Times of Darkness

Submitted by Samir El-Youssef on Thu, 03/21/2024 - 08:34
Fiction
Iman Humaidan
Julien Salinas
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Iman Humaidan
"Songs for Times of Darkness" - the lives of four Lebanese women in a novel by Iman Humaidan
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Fiction

Ruthless accuracy

Submitted by Christoph Becker on Tue, 01/09/2024 - 10:27
Fiction
Edgar Selge
Edgar Selge. © Muriel Liebmann / Rowohlt Verlag
Edgar Selge's autofictional journey into his childhood is an astonishing debut. I'd love more of it.
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