John Hopkins: The Tangier Diaries

UK 2015, 256 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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I.B. Tauris
This portrait of Tangier takes you on a wild ride with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Paul Bowles through the world's most exotic literary scene. Tangier in the 1960s and 1970s was a fabled place. This edge city, the »Interzone«, became muse and escapist's dream for artists, writers, millionaires and socialites (many of them, gay or bisexual). There, they ... Weiterlesen

André Aciman: Harvard Square

USA 2013, 292 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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W. W. Norton
1977: amid the lovely streets of Cambridge a young Harvard graduate student, a Jew from Egypt, longs more than anything to become an assimilated American and a professor of literature. He spends his days in a pleasant blur of 17th-century fiction, but when he meets a brash, charismatic Arab cab driver in a Harvard Square café, everything changes. Nicknamed Kalashnikov ... Weiterlesen

Lawrence Durrell: The Alexandria Quartet

UK 2012, 880 pp.,brochure, € 24.95
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Faber and Faber
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

Abdellah Taia: An Arab Melancholia

Engl. by Frank Stock. USA 2012, 141 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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MIT Press
Salé, near Rabat. The 1980s. A lower-class teenager is running until he's out of breath. He's running after his dream, his dream to become a movie director. He's running after the Egyptian movie star, Souad Hosni, who's out there somewhere, miles away from this neighborhood - which is a place the teenager both loves and hates, the home at which ... Weiterlesen

Michael T. Luongo (ed.): Gay Travels in the Muslim World

USA/UK 2009, 200 pp., brochure, € 69.95
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Routledge
Travel beyond the fear and paranoia of 9-11 to experience Muslim culture. »Gay Travels in the Muslim World« journeys where other gay travel books fear to tread - Muslim countries. This book tells both Muslim and non-Muslim gay men's stories of traveling in the Middle East during these difficult political times. The true, very personal tales reveal how gay men ... Weiterlesen

Abdellah Taïa: Salvation Army

Introduction by Edmund White. English by Frank Stock. USA 2009, 144 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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An autobiographical novel by turns naïve and cunning, funny and moving, this most recent work by Moroccan expatriate Abdellah Taïa is a major addition to the new French literature emerging from the North African Arabic diaspora. This is a coming-of-age novel that tells the story of Taïa's life with complete disclosure - from a childhood bound by family order and ... Weiterlesen

Alaa Al Aswany: The Yacoubian Building

USA 2006, 255pp., brochure, € 14.95
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All manner of flawed and fragile humanity reside in the Yacoubian Building, a once-elegant temple of Art Deco splendor now slowly decaying in the smog and bustle of downtown Cairo: a fading aristocrat and self-proclaimed »scientist of women«, a sultry, voluptuous siren, a devout young student, feeling the irresistible pull toward fundamentalism, a newspaper editor helplessly in love with a ... Weiterlesen