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Drei Kameraden by Erich Maria Remarque DE

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
Berlin in den »Goldenen 20ern«: Der Krieg ist vorüber – in den SaIons und Theatern herrscht Lebensfreude, in der Kasse die Inflation und auf der Straße Not und politische Unruhe. Drei junge Kriegskameraden versuchen ein neues Leben aufzubauen...

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Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum : Mit Beiträgen von Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Max Czollek, Mithu Sanyal, Olga Grjasnowa, Margarete Stokowski uvm. | Der Bestseller in Neuausgabe by Fatma Aydemir, Hengameh Yaghoobifarah DE

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
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17 Autor_innen geben in 14 viel beachteten und drei neuen Essays Einblick in ihren Alltag und halten Deutschland den Spiegel vor: einem Land, das sich als vorbildliche Demokratie begreift und gleichzeitig einen Teil seiner Mitglieder als »anders« markiert, kaum schützt oder wertschätzt.
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The Passenger : A Novel by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz EN

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Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
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Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany Berlin, November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and looted, synagogues destroyed. As storm troopers pound on his door, Otto Silbermann, a respected businessman who fought for Germany in the Great War, is forced to sneak out the back of his own home. Turned away from establishments he had long patronized, and fearful of being exposed as a Jew despite his Aryan looks, he boards a train. And then another. And another . . . until his flig... continue

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Dschinns : Roman by Fatma Aydemir DE

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
Fatma Aydemirs großer Familienroman – Auf der Shortlist für den Deutschen Buchpreis 2022 Dreißig Jahre hat Hüseyin in Deutschland gearbeitet, nun erfüllt er sich endlich seinen Traum: eine Eigentumswohnung in Istanbul. Nur um am Tag des Einzugs an einem Herzinfarkt zu sterben. Zur Beerdigung reist ihm seine Familie aus Deutschland nach. Fatma Aydemirs großer Gesellschaftsroman erzählt von sechs grundverschiedenen Menschen, die zufällig miteinander verwandt sind. Alle haben sie ihr eigenes Gepäck dabei: Geheimnisse, Wünsche, Wunden. Wa... continue

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The Lazarus Effect by H. J. Golokai EN

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Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
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The Lazarus Effect is a gripping new addition to the African crime genre from a talented debut author.

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Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann EN

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Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
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The New York Times Best Historical Fiction of 2020 The Guardian's Best Fiction of 2020 Thrillist's Best Books of the Year Daniel Kehlmann transports the medieval legend of the trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel to the seventeenth century in an enchanting work of magical realism, macabre humor, and rollicking adventure. Tyll is a scrawny boy growing up in a quiet village until his father, a miller with a forbidden interest in alchemy and magic, is found out by the church. After Tyll flees with the baker’s daughter, he falls in with a traveling performer who teaches him his trade. As a juggler and a jes... continue

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Madame Curie und die Kraft zu träumen by Susanna Leonard DE

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
Träume dir dein Leben schön, und mach aus diesen Träumen eine Realität.“ Marie Curie Paris, 1891. Schon als Kind träumte Marie davon, eines Tages der Enge ihrer von Russland besetzten polnischen Heimat zu entfliehen. Nun, 20 Jahre später, erfüllt sich dieser Traum: Marie darf an der Sorbonne studieren. Dafür musste sie hart kämpfen, denn eine Frau ist in der Welt der Wissenschaft nicht gern gesehen. Doch Marie weiß, was sie will. Trotz aller Anfeindungen stürzt sie sich in die Forschung – und ins Leben. Als sie dem charmant... continue

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Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
From the acclaimed author of All Quiet on the Western Front comes Three Comrades, a harrowing novel that follows a group of friends as they cope with upheaval in Germany between World Wars I and II. The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty, and violence are everywhere. For these three, friendship is the only refuge from the chaos around them. Then the youngest of them falls in love, and brings into the group a young woman who will become a c... continue


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Vertigo by Winfried Georg Sebald EN

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Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
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Part fiction, part travelogue, the narrator of this compelling masterpiece pursues his solitary, eccentric course from England to Italy and beyond, succumbing to the vertiginous unreliability of memory itself. What could possibly connect Stendhal's unrequited love, the artistry of Pisanello, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation, a missing passport, Casanova, the suicide of a dinner companion, stale apple cake, the Great Fire of London, a story by Kafka about a doomed huntsman and a closed-down pizzeria in Verona?


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