Rupert Thomson: Never Anyone But You

UK 2019, 278 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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When Suzanne, a shy 17-year-old, meets the brilliant but troubled Lucie in rural Provence, the two young women embark on a clandestine love affair. The lovers move to Paris where they recreate themselves entirely, as Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. Before long, they are mixing in the most glamorous social circles and producing art of great power and strangeness. But ... Weiterlesen

Rabih Alameddine: The Angel of History

USA 2016, 296 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, »The Angel of History« follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco ... Weiterlesen

Neel Mukherjee: A Life Apart

UK 2011, 402 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Ritwik Ghosh, 22 and recently orphaned, finds the chance to start a new life when he arrives in England from Calcutta. But to do so, he must revisit his past and make sense of his relationship with his mother - scarred, abusive and all-consuming. When Oxford brings little of the salvation Ritwik is looking for, he moves to London, disappearing ... Weiterlesen