Arundhati Roy: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

USA 2017, 440 pp., brochure, € 12.95
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»The Ministry of Utmost Happiness« takes us on a journey of many years - the story spooling outwards from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi to the forests of Central India, where, from time to time, »normalcy« is declared. The story has two main strands. One follows Anjum,who used to be Aftab, a hijra, or transwoman, struggling to make a ... Weiterlesen

Aravind Adiga: Selection Day

UK 2017, 320 pp., pb., € 12.95
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Macmillan
Manju is fourteen. He knows he is good at cricket - if not as good as his elder brother Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his domineering and cricket-obsessed father, admires his brilliantly talented brother and is fascinated by CSI and curious and interesting scientific facts. But there are many things, about himself and about the world, that ... Weiterlesen

Damon Galgut: Arctic Summer

South Africa 2014, 368 pp., pb., € 89.95
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In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. The seeds of a story start to gather at the corner of his mind: a sense of impending menace, lust in close confines, under a hot, empty sky. It will be another twelve years, and ... Weiterlesen
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Timothy Mo: Pure

UK 2012, 388 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
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Turnaround
Anglo-Chinese author Timothy Mo - with a string of Booker Prize nominations - slipped off the radar when he moved to the Far East and started to self-publish his work. »Pure« - his new book - is a morally ambiguous romp about Islamic jihad in South East Asia as seen through the eyes of a rumbustious Thai ladyboy. Snooky, a ... Weiterlesen

Nick Langat: Forever - or Death Is Just a Waste of Time

In Memory of Thaworn Phrarach. Thailand 2012, 80 pp., hardbound, € 16.95
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Moragod
The photos in this book were taken by Nick during his journeys with Thaworn, his Thai boyfriend. It is the follow-up to the previous book »InNoSense - A Journey of Love«. The couple traveled around the world, and wherever they were Thaworn was always in the centre of photography as the photographer's lover. The English text to accompany the photography ... Weiterlesen

Joseph Lelyveld: Great Soul

Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India. USA 2012, 426 pp. with b/w photographs, brochure, € 24.95
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Vintage
When this biography on the »Father of the Indian Nation«, Mahatma Gandhi, was released a big storm of protest in the Indian media broke loose. What was it all about? The biographer claimed that Gandhi has never been very much interested in women because the real love of his life was a German-Jewish architect and bodybuilder, Hermann Kallenbach, for whom ... Weiterlesen

Neel Mukherjee: A Life Apart

UK 2011, 402 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Corsair
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

Andreas H. Bitesnich: India

D 2011, 256 S. m. 100 SW-Abb., 75 Farbabb., geb., € 79.90
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Indien, so heißt es, verändert das Leben. Mehr als ein Land, ist Indien ein Gemütszustand. Andreas H. Bitesnich zeigt auf einer faszinierenden Entdeckungsreise alle Facetten des indischen Daseins. Mit Behutsamkeit, Verständnis und einem einzigartigen Blick macht er die Widersprüche im Inneren der indischen Gesellschaft sichtbar. Beharrlich aber einfühlsam geht er sowohl dem permanenten Wandel des Subkontinents als auch der unveränderten ... Weiterlesen

Nick Langat: InNoSense

A Journey of Love. Thailand 2011, 196 pp., Farbe, engl. Text, hardbound, € 29.95
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Dieses Buch beschreibt in Bildern die Geschichte einer Liebe, die keine Grenzen kannte - weder die von Ländern noch die der Zeit. Als Christian und Thaworn sich kennen gelernt hatten, bereisten sie die halbe Welt - von Österreich über Brasilien und Botswana, Ägypten und Equador, Italien und Malaysia bis nach Thailand. Auf ihren Reisen wurden sie von Nick Langat fotografiert. ... Weiterlesen

Rahul Mehta: Quarantine

Stories. USA/UK 2011, 214 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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With buoyant humor and incisive, cunning prose, the author sets off into uncharted literary territory. The characters in »Quarantine« - openly gay Indian-American men - are Westernized in some ways, with cosmopolitan views on friendship and sex, while struggling to maintain relationships with their families and cultural traditions. Grappling with the issues that concern all gay men - social acceptance, ... Weiterlesen

Roland Graeme: The Temple of Skanda

USA 2010, 250pp., brochure, € 13.20
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Determined to turn his life around after a run-in with the law, Conor desperately needs a job, and a place to stay. He finds both with Murray, an importer, who hires Conor as his shipping clerk and live-in handyman. What Conor hadn't counted on was falling in love with his new boss - hopelessly, he thinks, because Murray still seems ... Weiterlesen

John Burdett: Bangkok Haunts

UK 2008, 432 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Corgi - Sonchai Jitpleecheep 3
Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep has seen just about everything on his beat in Bangkok's crime-riddled District 8. But the terrifying snuff movie he's been sent anonymously is something else: the person who dies is Damrong, the beautiful woman he once loved and whom he still dreams about. And there's more: slayings turn the ensuing investigation into a murder inquiry, and Sonchai ... Weiterlesen

Shyam Selvadurai: Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

CAN 2007, 274 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to think of his life »before« when his doting mother was still alive. Amrith's holiday plans ... Weiterlesen
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Tom Boellstorff: The Gay Archipelago

USA 2007, 282 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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The University Press Group
The lives of gay men in Indonesia are, for the first time, explored in this book. Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous nation and home to more Muslims than any other country. Based on a range of field methods, it shows how Indonesian gay and lesbian identities are shaped by nationalism and globalization. The author examines the history of ... Weiterlesen

Brinda Bose, Subhabrata Bhattacharyya (eds.): The Phobic and the Erotic

The Politics of Sexuality in Contemporary India. USA/UK 2007, 496 pp., brochure, € 36.95
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This anthology explodes several current myths about lines that divide - the heterosexual from the homosexual, the normative from the »alternative«, the phobic from the obsessive, the moral from the titillating, the academic from the activist - and brings together an array of writing about what is both most visible and most hidden in the lives and sexualities of contemporary ... Weiterlesen

John Burdett: Bangkok Tattoo

UK 2006, 432 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Corgi - Sonchai Jitpleecheep 2
Bangkok, rich in history and spirituality, crowded with temples, markets and canals, is also a city shrouded in shadows. Polluted, corrupt, infamous as the sex capital of the world, it is a place where wealth, poverty and unimaginable evil walk hand in hand. In District 8, the underbelly of Bangkok's crime world, a dramatically mutilated body is found in a ... Weiterlesen

Sulayman X: Adventures of a Bird-Shit Foreigner

USA 2006, 209 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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The portrait of an American-Thai young man struggling with his sexual identity, with his family, and with the world at large: Isa is the product of a GI from Kansas City and a prostitute Thai mother. But - different from the global image of a tolerant society - Thai society can be cruel to those not of pure breeding - ... Weiterlesen

Ara Wilson: The Intimate Economies of Bangkok

USA 2004, 272 pp., brochure, € 22.79
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This portrait of the intertwining of identities, relationships, and economics during Bangkok's boom years uses case studies of women's and men's participation in a range of modern markets - department stores, go-go bars etc - the author chronicles the expansion of capitalist exchange into further reaches of Thai society. She shows how global economies have interacted with local systems to ... Weiterlesen