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Thema: zweiter Weltkrieg

Der zweite Weltkrieg
in direktem Bezug zu Literatur und Film haben wir als eigenes Thema gesetzt; es geht also nicht nur um die zeitliche Bestimmung, sondern auch um die Rahmenbedingungen der Geschichten oder Untersuchungen, die wir hier zusammenstellen.





David Hewson: The Garden of Angels

David Hewson: The Garden of Angels

GB 2022, 320 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Canongate
When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, fifteen-year-old Nico just watches - earning him a week's suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says, and a secret he must keep from his father. Nico is transported back to the Venice of 1943, an occupied city seething under the Nazis, and ... Weiterlesen

Joseph Brennan: Loose Lips

Joseph Brennan: Loose Lips

USA 2023, 288 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Hard Crossing Press
Dockyard mansex adventurer Olli Turner has stowed away on the biggest ship the world has ever known, forced to set sail incomplete. Built up rivet by rivet through his formative years, RMS Queen Elizabeth watched over Olli's sexual awakening. Staying with her seems to promise passage to a new world of landed men. Yet in March 1940 war is churning. ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Gale: Mother's Boy

Patrick Gale: Mother's Boy

UK 2022, 416 pp., brochure, € 21.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Headline
Laura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a baby, Charles, but Laura's husband returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis that will soon leave her a widow. In a small, class-obsessed town she raises her boy alone, working as a laundress, ... Weiterlesen

David Treuer: Prudence

David Treuer: Prudence

USA 2016, 253 pp., brochure, € 16.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin USA
In August 1942, Frankie Washburn returns to his family's rustic Minnesota resort for one last visit before he joins the war as a bombardier, heading for Europe. Awaiting him are his hovering mother, his distant father, the Indian caretaker who's been more of a father to him than his own, and Billy, the childhood friend who over the years has ... Weiterlesen

Paul Russell: The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov

Paul Russell: The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov

USA 2011, 383 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Cleis
Russell's protagonist is an outsider because of his sexuality. He is the eyewitness to world-changing events and manages to find a place for himself at the heart of the creative life of his times. Russell gives us incisive portraits of Cocteau, Diaghilev, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas and their Charmed Circle, and Vladimir and Véra Nabokov, and glimpses into ... Weiterlesen

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