Ocean Vuong: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

USA 2019, 256 pp., hardbound, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 20 Euro Bestellwert.
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 20 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
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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

Dustin Lance Black: Mama´s Boy

A Story From Our Americas. UK 2019, 416 pp., hardback, € 19.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 20 Euro Bestellwert.
Hodder and Stoughton
From the screenwriter (»Milk«), political activist and husband of Olympic diver Tom Daley, a memoir about growing up as a gay Mormon in Texas that is, as well, a tribute to the mother who taught him about surviving against all odds. Black helped overturn California´s anti-gay marriage »Proposition 8«, but as an LGBTQ activist he has unlikely origins. Raised in ... Weiterlesen

Saleem Haddad: Guapa

UK 2019, 300 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 20 Euro Bestellwert.
Random House
Set over the course of 24 hours, »Guapa« follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social upheaval. Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. ... Weiterlesen

Eric Bell: Alan Cole Is Not a Coward

USA 2017, 262 pp., hardbound, € 18.95
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Alan Cole can´t stand up to his cruel brother, Nathan. He can´t escape the wrath of his demanding father, who thinks he´s about as exceptional as a goldfish. And - scariest of all - he can´t let the cute boy across the cafeteria know he has a crush on him. But when Nathan discovers Alan´s secret, his older brother announces ... Weiterlesen

Will Self: Phone

UK 2018, 624 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 20 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK
For the characters at the heart of Will Self´s new novel the 500-quid worry bead in their pocket may be both a blessing and a curse. For elderly Dr Zachary Busner it is a mysterious object - »NO CALLER ID« - but also it´s his life line to his autistic grandson Ben, whose own connection with technology is, in turn, ... Weiterlesen

Garrard Conley: Boy Erased

UK 2018, 340 pp., Pb, € 13.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 20 Euro Bestellwert.
William Collins
The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. As a 19-year-old college student, Garrard was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to ... Weiterlesen

Brontez Purnell: Since I Laid My Burden Down

USA 2017, 208 pp., brochure, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 20 Euro Bestellwert.
Feminist Press
DeShawn lives a high, creative, and promiscuous life in San Francisco. But when he´s called back to his cramped Alabama hometown for his uncle´s funeral, he´s hit by flashbacks of handsome, doomed neighbors and sweltering Sunday services. Amidst prickly reminders of his childhood, DeShawn ponders family, church, and the men in his life, prompting the question: Who deserves love? - ... Weiterlesen

Pajtim Statovci: My Cat Yugoslavia

USA 2017, 272 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 20 Euro Bestellwert.
Random House
In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but what was meant to be a happy match goes quickly wrong. Soon thereafter her country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee. Years later, her son, Bekim, grows up a social outcast in present-day Finland, not just an immigrant ... Weiterlesen

Hasan Namir: God in Pink

USA 2015, 153 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 20 Euro Bestellwert.
Arsenal Pulp Press
A revelatory novel about being gay and Muslim, set in war-torn Iraq in 2003. Ramy is a young gay Iraqi struggling to find a balance between his sexuality, religion, and culture. Since his parents have died, he lives under the close scrutinity of his strict brother and sister-in-law. They exert pressure on him to find a wife, leaving him anguished ... Weiterlesen