Ahmad Danny Ramadan: The Foghorn Echoes

UK 2024, 248 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Canongate
The new novel of the author of »The Clothesline Swing« about the forbidden gay love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout that ripples through their adult lives.- Syria, 2003. A blooming romance leads to a tragic accident when Hussam's father catches him acting on his feelings for his best friend, Wassim. In an instant, the course of ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt: Shelter in Place

UK 2020, 369 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Bloomsbury
It is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential election, and in a plush weekend house in Connecticut, an intimate group of friends, New Yorkers all, has gathered to recover from what they consider the greatest political catastrophe of their lives. They have just sat down to tea when their hostess, Eva Lindquist, proposes a dare. Who among them would be ... Weiterlesen

Julian Barnes: The Man in the Red Coat

UK 2020, 268 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrive in London for a few days' shopping. One is a Prince, one is a Count, and the third is a commoner, who four years earlier has been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits. The commoner is Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker - a scientific man ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Castellani: Leading Men

USA 2020, 358 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin USA
In July of 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja Bloom, a mysterious young Swedish beauty and aspiring actress. Their encounter will go on to alter all of their lives. Ten years later, Frank revisits the tempestuous events of that fateful summer from his deathbed ... Weiterlesen

André Aciman: Out of Egypt

UK 2019, 415 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Faber and Faber
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

Qiu Miaojin: Notes of a Crocodile

USA 2017, 242 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
NYRB
Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, »Notes of a Crocodile« depicts the coming-of-age of a group of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, Qiu Miaojin's cult classic novel is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash ... Weiterlesen

Tim Murphy: Christodora

USA 2017, 432 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Picador
The Christodora is home to Milly and Jared, a privileged young couple with artistic ambitions. Their neighbour, Hector, a Puerto Rican gay man who was once a celebrated AIDS activist but is now a lonely addict, becomes connected to Milly's and Jared's lives in ways none of them can anticipate. Meanwhile, the couple's adopted son, Mateo, grows to appreciate the ... Weiterlesen

John Marss: The One

USA 2017, 416 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Del Rey
A simple DNA test is all it takes. Just a quick mouth swab and soon you'll be matched with your perfect partner - the one you're genetically made for. That's the promise made by Match Your DNA. A decade ago, the company announced that they had found the gene that pairs each of us with our soul mate. Since then, ... Weiterlesen

Bei Tong: Beijing Comrades

USA 2017, 388 pp.,pb., € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
When Handong, a ruthless and wealthy businessman, is introduced to Lan Yu, a naïve, working-class architectural student the attraction is all consuming. Arrogant and privileged, Handong is unsettled by this desire, while Lan Yu quietly submits. Despite divergent lives, the two men spend their nights together, establishing a deep connection. When loyalties are tested, Handong is left questioning his secrets, ... Weiterlesen

Dale Peck: Now It's Time to Say Goodbye

USA 2015, 464 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Soho Press
When the 500th person they know dies of AIDS, gay partners Colin and Justin flee New York City. They end up in Galatia, a Kansas town founded by freed slaves in the wake of the Civil War whose population is now divided, evenly but uneasily, between African Americans descended from the town's founders and Caucasians who buy up more of ... Weiterlesen

Hanya Yanagihara: A Little Life

USA 2015, 720 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Picador
When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic ... Weiterlesen

Allan Gurganus: Decoy

USA 2015, 171 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
W. W. Norton
»Decoy«, the concluding novella of Allan Gurganus's »Local Souls«, was hailed as the standout of that work. Critics called it »humane, profound, hilarious, nostalgic, the literary equivalent of a bare-knuckled knockout punch«. It is a haunting lyrical portrayal of a life half-led. Set in mythical Falls, North Carolina, this mysterious and compelling tale maps the lifelong eroticized friendship between two ... Weiterlesen

James Purdy: Eustace Chisholm and the Works

USA 2015, 277 pp., brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
W. W. Norton
No Purdy work has dazzled contemporary writers more than this haunting tale of unrequited love in an indifferent world. A seedy Depression-era boardinghouse in Chicago plays host to a game of emotional chairs in a novel initially condemned for its frank depiction of abortion, homosexuality, and life on the margins of American society. A cast of characters displaced by economic ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Waters: The Paying Guests

UK 2014, 576 pp., brochure, € 21.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Little Brown
Der Erste Weltkrieg hat die britische Gesellschaft schwer erschüttert, die Jahre nach dem eigentlich gewonnenen Krieg bringen den Niedergang vieler vormals fest in der Oberschicht etablierter Familien, sei es alter Geburts- oder städtischer Geldadel. So hat es auch die Wrays getroffen, die verwitwete alte Mrs Wray und ihre 25jährige ledige Tochter Frances bewohnen zwar noch das eigene Haus in einem ... Weiterlesen
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Sarah Waters: The Paying Guests

USA 2015, 576 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Hachette
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in ... Weiterlesen

John Rechy: City of Night

UK 2009, 384 pp., pb., € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Grove Press
When John Rechy's explosive first novel appeared in 1963, it marked a radical departure in fiction, and gave voice to a subculture that had never before been revealed with such acuity. It earned comparisons to Genet and Kerouac, even as Rechy was personally attacked by scandalized reviewers. Nevertheless, the book became an international bestseller, and fifty years later (2013), it ... Weiterlesen

Simon Raven: Alms For Oblivion Volume III

UK 2012, 884 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
The »Alms for Oblivion« sequence - an extraordinary series of murders, suicides, affairs, fighting, fires and at least one explosion, blackmail, gambling, illness, madness, lots of parties and plenty of sex - draws to a close with two novels about death and retribution. But Simon Raven's achievement and the conflicted, colourful or uniquely vile characters he created are not easily ... Weiterlesen

Simon Raven: Alms For Oblivion Volume II

UK 2012, 884 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
Simon Raven's sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of intrigue in Athens, radicalism in Cambridge, turmoil in India and movie-making in Corfu. Dazzlingly witty and thoroughly depraved, Raven's world is also a dark mirror to our times - one that is sure to make you blush, shriek, laugh out loud and ... Weiterlesen