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Herta Müller: The Hunger Angel

Herta Müller: The Hunger Angel

English translation by Philip Boehm. USA 2013, 289 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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It was an icy morning in January 1945 when the patrol came for 17-year-old Leo Auberg to deport him to a camp in the Soviet Union. He is gay, and hemmed in, imprisoned already, by the laws and misplaced narrow morality of the town. He has already found the joys of sex in secluded wooded areas or empty bath house ... Weiterlesen

Alan Hollinghurst: The Stranger's Child

Alan Hollinghurst: The Stranger's Child

UK 2012, 564 pp., pb, € 17.95
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In late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at Two Acres, the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's 16-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact, when Cecil writes her a ... Weiterlesen

Michael Cunningham: By Nightfall

Michael Cunningham: By Nightfall

USA 2011, 228 pp., Pb, € 12.95
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Peter and Rebecca Harris: midforties denizens of Manhattan's Soho, nearing the apogee of committed careers in the arts - he a dealer, she an editor. With a spacious loft, a college-age daughter in Boston, and lively friends, they are admirable, enviable contemporary urbanites with every reason, it seems, to be happy. Then Rebecca's much younger look-alike brother, Ethan (known in ... Weiterlesen

Hazel Rowley: Franklin and Eleanor

Hazel Rowley: Franklin and Eleanor

USA 2011, 345 pp. illustr., brochure, € 13.20
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Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths. From FDR's lifelong romance with Lucy Mercer to Eleanor's purported lesbianism - and many scandals in between - the American public has never tired of speculating about the ties ... Weiterlesen

Emma Donoghue: Room

Emma Donoghue: Room

USA 2010, 402 pp., Pb, € 8.50
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It's Jack's birthday, and he's excited about turning five. He lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight and measures 11 by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real - only him, Ma and the things ... Weiterlesen

Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex

USA 2003, 596 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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»Middlesex« tells the story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City and the race riots of 1967 before moving out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope ... Weiterlesen

Charles Causley: Collected Poems 1951 - 2000

Charles Causley: Collected Poems 1951 - 2000

UK 2000, 430 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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This revised collection gathers together Charles Causley's poetry spanning a period of more than fifty years and includes his most recent unpublished work as well as some of his poems for children. Charles Stanley Causley was born in Launceston in Cornwall, and spent most of his life there. After serving in the navy in the second world war (an experience ... Weiterlesen

Byrne Fone: Homophobia: A History

Byrne Fone: Homophobia: A History

USA 2001, 480 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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Antipathy, condemnation, loathing, fear and proscription of homosexual behavior have taken many forms over the centuries. In this lucid history, Fone charts the ways in which homophobia has induced legal, medical, social and ecclesiastical authorities to punish - and kill - gay men. Drawing upon accepted classics of gay studies (like Boswell and Greenberg) as well as other books and ... Weiterlesen

Susan Sontag: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Susan Sontag: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

USA 1990, 183 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote »Illness as Metaphor«, a classic work described by Newsweek as »one of the most liberating books of its time«. A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper ... Weiterlesen

  
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