Asjadi: Tric-Trac

D 2021, 600 S., geb., € 28.80
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Dieser Debütroman des schwulen, in Teheran geborenen Autors ist ein Entwicklungsroman ohne Entwicklung und ein kaleidoskopisches Mehrgenerationenportrait. Die Geschichte beginnt mit der schockierenden Hinrichtung von zwei 15-jährigen schwulen Jungen 2005 in der iranischen Stadt Maschhad, die international Wellen schlug - hier lässt der Autor die vom Mullahregime ermordeten Jungen wiederauferstehen. Er führt sie direkt ins Glück, und das alles wird ... Weiterlesen

André Aciman: Homo Irrealis

UK 2021, 226 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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In »Homo Irrealis«, André Aciman reflects on the imagination´s power to shape our memories under time´s seemingly intractable hold. The irrealis mood knows no boundaries between what is and what isn´t, between what happened and what won´t. In more ways than one, the essay about the artists, writers, and great minds gathered in this volume have nothing to do with ... Weiterlesen

Sebastian Barry: A Thousand Moons

USA 2020, 272 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Narrated by Winona - the young Lakota orphan adopted by gay soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole in »Days Without End« - »A Thousand Moons« continues Sebastian Barry's extraordinary fictional exploration of late nineteenth century America. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, educated and loved, Winona is employed by the lawyer Briscoe in ... Weiterlesen

André Aciman: Out of Egypt

UK 2019, 415 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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This portrait of a now vanished world tells the story of Alexandria in the 20th-century that is, by the way, the story of Aciman´s own family, a Jewish family with Italian and Turkish roots that tied its future to Egypt and made its home there for three generations, only to find itself peremptorily expelled by the Government in the early ... Weiterlesen

Samantha Irby: We Are Never Meeting in Real Life

UK 2019, 288 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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If you haven´t already heard of Samantha Irby. Where have you been? In this painfully funny collection, Samantha Irby captures powerful emotional truths while chronicling the rubbish bin she calls her life. From an ill-fated pilgrimage to Nashville to scatter her estranged father´s ashes to awkward sexual encounters to the world´s first completely honest job application, and more, sometimes ... Weiterlesen

Jean Genet: Querelle de Brest

UK 2019, 320 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Querelle, a young sailor at large in the port of Brest, is an object of illicit desire to his diary-keeping superior officer, Lieutenant Seblon. He is coveted, too, by a corrupt policeman, Mario, and gives himself freely both to brothel-keeper Madame Lysiane and to her husband. But Querelle is a thief and a murderer - not a man to be ... Weiterlesen

André Aciman: Find Me

UK 2019, 260 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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The author of the worldwide bestseller »Call Me by Your Name« revisits its complex and beguiling characters two decades after their first meeting. In »Find Me«, Aciman shows us Elio´s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman ... Weiterlesen

Richard Scott: Soho

UK 2018, 78 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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In his debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising portrait of love and gay shame. Examining how trauma becomes a part of the language we use, Scott takes us back to our roots: childhood incidents, the violence our scars betray, forgotten forebears and histories. The hungers of sexual encounters are underscored by the risks that threaten when we give ourselves to ... Weiterlesen

Sally Rooney: Conversations with Friends

UK 2018, 336 pp., brochure, € 11.99
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Frances is 21- years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous ... Weiterlesen

Matthew Lopez: The Inheritance

UK 2018, 300 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Inspired by E.M. Forster´s novel »Howard´s End«, and set in New York three decades after the height of the AIDS epidemic, »The Inheritance« wrestles with what it means to be a gay man today and with what one generation´s responsibilities may be to the next. Forster himself is summoned as a guide to help a group of young men tell ... Weiterlesen

Derek Johns: Ariel

A Literary Life of Jan Morris. UK 2017, 196 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Jan Morris is one of the great British writers of the post-war era. Soldier, journalist, writer about places, elegist of the British Empire, novelist, she is best known to many for her candid memoir »Conundrum«, which described the gender reassignment operation she underwent in 1972. But, as Ariel demonstrates, this is just one of the many remarkable facts about her ... Weiterlesen

Sebastian Barry: Days Without End

USA 2016, 259 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Having signed up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Discovering the love they share for each other they start a life together. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, they find these days of war to be vivid ... Weiterlesen

Meg-John Barker and Julia Scheele: Queer

A Graphic History. UK 2016, 175 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 19.95
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Activist-academic Barker and cartoonist Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ action in this synthesis of words and imagery. A kaleidoscope of characters from the diverse worlds of pop culture, film, activism and academia - such as James Bond, Judith Butler and the Wizard of Oz - guide us on a journey through the ideas, people and events ... Weiterlesen

Christos Tsiolkas: Merciless Gods

UK 2016, 336 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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The Australian author with Greek roots wrote the gay novels »Loaded« and »Barracuda«. His novel »The Slap« has been made into a mini-series. In the short stories of »Merciless Gods«, the author takes you deep into worlds both strange and familiar, and introduces you to characters that will haunt you long after you have turned the final page. A ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Sean Greer: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

UK 2013, 289 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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It's 1985, and Greta Wells wishes she lived in any other time but this one: she has lost her beloved gay twin brother, Felix, to AIDS, her lover Nathan to another woman, and cannot seem to go on alone. To ease her sadness, her doctor suggests an unusual procedure, one that opens doors of insight into her relationship, her conflicting ... Weiterlesen

Neil McKenna: Fanny and Stella

The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England. UK 2013, 396 pp. illustrated, pp, € 17.95
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This is the story of the trial that shook Victorian England - a tale of cross-dressing, cross-examination and the invention of camp. Fanny and Stella were no ordinary young women. They were young men who liked to dress as women: Frederick Park and Ernest Boulton, two young clerks, part-time actresses and part-time prostitutes. Stella was the most beautiful female impersonator ... Weiterlesen

Lawrence Durrell: The Alexandria Quartet

UK 2012, 880 pp.,brochure, € 24.95
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An exotic and stunningly accomplished work of fiction in four interlocking novels. Set amid the corrupt glamour and multiplying intrigues of Alexandria in the 1930s and '40s, these novels follow the shifting alliances – sexual, cultural, and political - of characters whose motives change dramatically from one book to the next: Darley, the adulterous Irish schoolmaster; Pursewarden, an English writer ... Weiterlesen

Kat Banyard: The Equality Illusion

The Truth about Women and Men Today. UK 2011, 291 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Women (in the Western world) have apparently never had it so good. In today's supposedly post-feminist world, cosmetic surgery is seen as empowering, lap dancing as a sexually liberating career, and the lack of women in the boardroom a result of women's free choices. But the author isn't buying it. Only 22 per cent of British MPs are women. 100,000 ... Weiterlesen