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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY S WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014. From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful story of love, race and identity. As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the...

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war tears through her hometown of Jaffna, her dream takes her on a different path as she sees those around her, including her four...

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize In November 2021, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the Channel causing the death of 27 people on board. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and … hope’ OCEAN VUONG ‘Beautiful, brilliant’ R. F. KUANG ‘Dazzling’ OBSERVER ‘Will shatter your heart’ GLAMOUR ‘Powerful’ SUNDAY TIMES An extraordinary story of the journey of one...

Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas. Recently retired, he steps into the streets of his city, Berlin, and discovers a new community. A tent city has grown up on Oranienplatz, established by African asylum seekers. Hesitantly getting to...

WINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD AND THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE WOMEN’S PRIZE The moving, powerful and urgent English-language debut from one of the brightest young stars in world literature Suppose you and Pa were gone, and we were lost. What would...

Der Untergeher – eine menschliche Komödie in vier Jahreszeiten London, Donnerstag, 20. Mai 2021, die Temperatur beträgt 16 Grad, es ist heiter, später gibt es Schauer. Als Campell Flynn, 52 Jahre alt und auf der Höhe seines Ruhms als öffentlicher Intellektueller, an diesem Tag aus dem...

Arab American Book Award Winner 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist 2020 Athenaeum Literary Award Finalist 2020 Palestine Book Awards Winner Longlisted for Rathbones Folio Prize “Susan Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior; she looks into the darkest crevices of lives, conflicts...

'Captivating …There's a breadth of humanity in An Unsafe Haven which is very moving. I loved the sense of Lebanon and of what is unique and precious about the Arab world' Helen Dunmore Hannah has deep roots in her hometown of Beirut, where she lives with her American husband, Peter. Just when...

Man is born of clay. Blends into the soil. Such is the inseparable attachment of clay to man. So the more money a man owes himself, the more he will fall on that clay.

Das lang erwartete Debüt von Spiegel-Bestsellerautor Jean-Philippe Kindler Drei Tage vor der Bundestagswahl 2029 verliert Jonas seinen Vater. Während er mit der Trauer ringt und versucht, seinem kleinen Sohn den Tod des Opas zu erklären, kämpft Estelle im Team von Spitzenkandidatin Sandra...

Schweigen ist Silber, Reden ist Gold - der gefeierte Regisseur Sönke Wortmann legt seinen ersten Roman vor. Franz-Josef Klenke arbeitet als Redenschreiber für den Außenminister Hans Behring und begleitet ihn regelmäßig auf seinen Auslandsreisen. Er tut alles, um den integren Mann gut dastehen zu lassen, wozu auch gehört, dass man in Reden zwar nicht unbedingt die Unwahrheit sagt, aber manche Wahrheit auch nicht ausspricht. Doch ausgerechnet Klenke, ein Mann des Worts, liebt Maria, die nicht sprechen kann. Und das sorgt immer wieder für Probleme.