Michael Cunningham: A Home at the End of the World

UK 2012, 344 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK
Michael Cunningham's celebrated novel is the story two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself, and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father ... Weiterlesen

Jan Stressenreuter: Love to Love You, Baby

D 2012 (Neuaufl.), 335 S., Broschur, € 15.32
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Querverlag
Die Woche beginnt für den 38jährigen Kölner Tobias absolut furchtbar. Sein Freund verlässt ihn, und nachdem er mit seiner besten Freundin den ersten Frust erfolgreich mit Alkohol bekämpft hat, erhält er auch noch die Nachricht, dass sein Vater gestorben ist. Für Tobias bedeutet dies in erster Linie, dass er in sein verhasstes Heimatdorf in Osthessen zurückkehren muss. Nicht nur, dass ... Weiterlesen

Jeremy Reed: Here Comes the Nice

UK 2011, 279 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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»Here Comes the Nice« is novel as time-machine, taking the reader back to the raw early gigs of the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Small Faces, and behind the scenes to a secret that will make the sixties of the first-wave Mods live forever - somewhere. Elegiac and thrilling, »Here Comes the Nice« is a paean to the power of ... Weiterlesen

Elif Shafak: The Forty Rules of Love

USA 2011, 355 pp., pb., € 12.90
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Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the 13th-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life ... Weiterlesen

Eric Ritter: Michael - Ein schicksalhaftes Leben

D 2011, 336 S., Broschur, € 20.40
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Der Autor gibt sehr anschaulich, stellenweise nahezu protokollartig, Einblick in Michaels schicksalhaftes Leben. Der Leser ist Zeuge, wie er sich in einen gleichaltrigen jungen Mann verliebt, der nicht die einzige Liebe seines Lebens bleibt. In seinen besten Mannesjahren erfährt Michael Sex und Liebe verschiedenster Art. Seine Erfahrungen enden in Enttäuschungen, sodass er jahrelang keinen Versuch mehr unternimmt, einen Freund fürs ... Weiterlesen

Josef Winkler: Kalkutta Tagebuch I

Ö 2011, 120 S., geb., € 20.00
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Bibliothek der Provinz
7. September. Immer wieder auf der Suche nach Bildern für mein indisches Notizbuch aus dem Fenster des Restaurants schauend, an einer Hausmauer auf einen übergroßen Bildschirm blickend, auf dem als Werbung für »Tata Sky« ein Inder mit einem Besen in einer langen Straße auf dem Boden liegende Augengläser zu einem zwei Meter hohen Haufen zusammenkehrt und schließlich in einen großen ... Weiterlesen

Rose Tremain: Trespass

UK 2011, 320 pp., brochure, € 12.95
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In a silent valley stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic so haunted by his violent past that he's become incapable of all meaningful action, letting his hunting dogs starve and his land go to ruin. Meanwhile, his sister, Audrun, alone in her modern bungalow within sight of the Mas Lunel, dreams ... Weiterlesen

Tony Cavanagh: Loving the Boy

Living the Dream. Vol.1. Uk 2011, 578 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Melrose - Living the Dream 1
They're talented acrobats, they're gay, and they're deeply in love. United in their relentless pursuit of physical excellence, and tenderly exploring their sexuality, two British boys who find themselves uprooted to the USA embark on their personal voyage of discovery. Joining a caring community with like-minded friends, they add their considerable performance skills to a touring mini-circus which, in the ... Weiterlesen

Edmund de Waal: The Hare With Amber Eyes

USA 2011, 354 pp, pb, € 15.95
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Vintage
264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the »netsuke«, they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de ... Weiterlesen

Mikey Walsh: Gypsy Boy on the Run

UK 2011, 306 pp, pb, € 17.95
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Hodder and Stoughton
The sequel to Mikey Walsh's coming-of-age novel »Gypsy Boy«: Mikey is a Romany Gypsy and grew up living in a caravan on sites across the UK. He adored his family and the rich and vibrant Romany culture he'd inherited. Eventually though he was forced to make a heartbreaking decision - to stay and keep secrets, or escape and find somewhere ... Weiterlesen

Paul Russell: The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov

USA 2011, 383 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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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

Elliot Tiber: Palm Trees on the Hudson

A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland and Interior Decorating. USA 2011, 183 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Square One
»Palm Trees on the Hudson« is the hilarious prequel to Elliot Tiber's bestseller »Taking Woodstock.« Before Elliot found financial success by bringing Woodstock Ventures to his upstate motel, he was one of Manhattan s leading interior designers. Then Elliot's career came to a halt due to a floating society party, Judy Garland, and the Mob: Elliot's glamorous society event turned ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: The Marbled Swarm

A Novel. USA 2011, 194 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Literary cult hero Dennis Cooper delivers his highly anticipated new novel. Written in a voice that is lush and intricate, »The Marbled Swarm« is Dennis Cooper's most accomplished (and most beguiling) work to date. Cooper tells the story of a man who secretly influences his son to commit a grisly act. In secret passageways, hidden rooms, and the troubled mind ... Weiterlesen

Oscar Wilde: The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

USA 2011, 260 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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Belknap Harvard
»The Picture of Dorian Gray« altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had a different look. Yet the »Dorian Gray« that Victorians never knew was even more daring than the novel the British press condemned as »vulgar«, »unclean«, »poisonous«, »discreditable«, and »a sham«. Now, more ... Weiterlesen

Raik Thorstad, Nico Morleen u.a.: Winter-Liebe

Eine Anthologie aus 5 etwas anderen Love-Stories. D 2011, 132 S., Broschur, € 11.26
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Fantasy Welt Zone
In »Definitionssache« fiebert Leif Weihnachten entgegen - damit all der Stress endlich vorbei ist. Nun aber bekommt er ein Geschenk, mit dem er nicht gerechnet hat. In »Feuersteine« besucht Aischa jeden Weihnachtsmarkt - in der Hoffnung, die feurigen Augen wieder zu sehen, die ihr nicht mehr aus dem Sinn gehen wollen. Als sie Lily wieder trifft, muss sich erst noch ... Weiterlesen