S. A. Cosby: Razorblade Tears

UK 2022, 321 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Headline
Ike has been out of jail for 15 years. But a black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son, Isiah, has been murdered, along with Isiah's white husband, Derek. Isiah was a gay black man in the American South - Ike couldn't bring himself to attend ... Weiterlesen

Neel Patel: Tell Me How to Be

USA 2022, 336 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Trapeze
Lost in the jungle of Los Angeles, Akash Amin is filled with shame. Shame for liking men. Shame for wanting to be a songwriter. Shame for not being like his perfect brother. Shame for his alcoholism. And most of all, shame for what happened with the first boy he ever loved. When his mother tells him she is selling the ... Weiterlesen

Douglas Stuart: Young Mungo

GB 2023, 392 pp., pb., € 14.95
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Picador
Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in the hyper-masculine and violently sectarian world of Glasgow's housing estates. They should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all, and yet they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds. As ... Weiterlesen

Daniel Black: Don't Cry for Me

CAN 2022, 301 pp., hardback, € 29.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Hanover Square
A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetrating novel of empathy and forgiveness: As Jacob lies dying, he begins to write a letter to his only son, Isaac. They have not met or spoken in many years, and there are things that Isaac must know. Stories about his ... Weiterlesen

David Levithan: Answers in the Pages

USA 2022, 210 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Penguin USA
Donovan didn't mean for this to happen. When he left his book on the counter he didn't think his mom would read it - much less have a problem with it. But before Donovan even has the chance to hear her point of view his mom is trying to get the book removed from the district curriculum. Interspersed with the ... Weiterlesen

Viggo Mortensen (R): Falling

CAN/UK/DK 2019, engl. OF, dt. SF, engl. / dt. UT, 108 min. + 80 min. Extras, € 17.99
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Eurovideo
Die Lebensrealitäten von John und seinem Vater Willis könnten kaum unterschiedlicher sein: Einst versuchte Willis, seinen Sohn im konservativen Mittleren Westen der USA zu einem echten Mann zu erziehen - doch als Erwachsener entschied sich John für ein liberales, weltoffenes Leben in Kalifornien. Als Willis mit einer beginnenden Demenz kämpft, ist er zunehmend auf die Fürsorge seines Sohnes angewiesen. Mit ... Weiterlesen

Melissa Broder: Milk Fed

USA 2021, 292 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Scribner
Rachel is 24, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting - until her therapist ... Weiterlesen

Bryan Washington: Memorial

UK 2021, 303 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Atlantic
Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese-American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and they've been together for a few years - good years - but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for ... Weiterlesen

Bryan Washington: Lot

Stories. UK 2021, 222 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Atlantic
In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's absence. And discovering he likes boys. This boy and his family experience the tumult of living in the margins, ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Ness: More Than This

GB 2013, 480 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Walker
A boy drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments. He dies. Then he wakes, naked and bruised and thirsty, but alive. How can this be? And what is this strange deserted place? - As he struggles to understand what is happening, the boy dares to hope. Might this not be the end? Might there be more to this life, ... Weiterlesen

Rory Power: Burn Our Bodies Down

USA 2020, 345 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Macmillan
Ever since Margot was born, it's been just her and her mother. No answers to Margot's questions about what came before. No history to hold on to. No relative to speak of. Just the two of them, stuck in their run-down apartment, struggling to get along. But that's not enough for Margot. She wants family. She wants a past. And ... Weiterlesen

Russell T. Davies (R): Years and Years - Die komplette Serie

UK 2019, engl. OF, dt. SF, dt. UT, 3 DVDs, 346 min., € 24.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Studiocanal
Als eine schicksalhafte Nacht im Jahr 2019 den Lauf der Geschichte verändert, werden die Lyons im Schnelldurchlauf in die Zukunft katapultiert. In eine immer bedrohlichere und schneller werdende Welt voll politischer Beben und neuer Technologien, in der die Populistin Vivienne Rook mit radikalen Maßnahmen ihren Aufstieg zur Macht plant. In diesen Entwicklungen spielt die eigentlich unscheinbare Familie Lyons eine überraschende ... Weiterlesen

Jenna Laurenzo (R): L Bomb

USA 2018, engl. OF, dt. UT, 90 Min., € 14.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Pro-fun
Lauren und Hailey sind verliebt wie am ersten Tag und führen ein romantisches Leben in Brooklyn. Die traute Zweisamkeit ist nahezu perfekt, daran kann selbst der gemeinsame Mitbewohner Austin nicht rütteln. Nur eine Sache steht noch aus, als Sahnehäubchen auf dem gemeinsamen Glück: Das Coming-Out vor Laurens Familie! Und dafür wird es sogar höchste Zeit, denn Laurens Mutter will endlich ... Weiterlesen

Chantal Akerman: My Mother Laughs

UK 2019, 230 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Silver
In 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman's mother was dying. She flew back from New York to care for her, and between dressing her, feeding her and putting her to bed, she wrote. She wrote about her childhood, the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but didn't talk about, the difficulty of loving her girlfriend, C., her fear of what she ... Weiterlesen

Ocean Vuong: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

USA 2020, 256 pp., pb., € 12.95
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Vintage
Brilliant, heart-breaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her gay son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. ... Weiterlesen

Bridget Collins: The Binding

UK 2019, 438 pp., pb., € 14.95
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Harper Collins
Imagine you could bind and a secret away. - Emmett is summoned to begin an apprenticeship working for a Bookbinder, learning to craft beautiful volumes, within each capturing a memory. If there is something you want to forget, he can help. Your past will be stored in a book and you will never remember your secret, however terrible. Then Emmett ... Weiterlesen

John Boyne: My Brother's Name is Jessica

UK 2019, 248 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK
Sam Waver's life has always been pretty quiet. A bit of a loner, he struggles to make friends, and his busy parents often make him feel invisible. Luckily for Sam, his older brother, Jason, has always been there for him. Sam idolises Jason, who seems to have life sorted - he's kind, popular, amazing at football, and girls are falling ... Weiterlesen

Édouard Louis: Who Killed My Father

Transl. by Lorin Stein. USA 2019, 87 pp., hardbound, € 16.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
New Directions
This nonfiction book by the French young literary star Édouard Louis is both a searing j'accuse of the viciously entrenched French class system and a wrenchingly tender love letter to his father. »Who Killed My Father« rips into France's long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French - at the minimum ... Weiterlesen