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Das Zöglingsheft des Jean Genet

Josef Winkler

Flowers for Jean Genet

»Josef Winkler (born in Carinthia, Austria in 1953) grew up in unhappy circumstances that included a strained relationship with his father and with the community in which he lived, as well as a distaste for farm life. His discovery of Genet's work and life proved decisive for Winkler's attempt to come to terms with his own sexuality.

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Blauschmuck

Katharina Winkler

Blue Jewellery

Filiz grows up in a Kurdish village in Turkey. She is twelve when she falls in love with Yunus, only a couple of years older than her, and they start to dream of a life together in the West: »›How do we want to live, Yunus?‹ / ›In jeans. We’ll be wearing blue jeans. In Germany.‹«

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Mit anderem Blick

Christa Wolf

Another View

Shortly after the collapse of Communism, Christa Wolf spent some time at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Far away in the West, in a foreign world, she looks back at her life in the east of a Germany united in 1990, surrenders to the memories that have left their mark on her and absorbs her new environment with all her sense, the people, the landscape on the edge of the Pacific, life in California, the city of émigrés such as Bertolt Brecht, Thomas Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger.

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Greece (Kastaniotis); previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spain (Circula De Lectores), Italy (Edizioni E/O)

August

Christa Wolf

August

Christa Wolf’s last story, written in the summer of 2011

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Kindheitsmuster

Christa Wolf

Patterns of Childhood

This novel is a testament of what seemed at the time a fairly ordinary childhood, in the bosom of a normal Nazi family in Landsberg.

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Moskauer Tagebücher

Christa Wolf

Moscow Diaries

»Moscow! I had asked myself beforehand what the first thing to make an impression upon me might be.« So begin Christa Wolf’s writings about a city which she visited for the first time in 1957. In October 1989, right in the middle of those tumultuous weeks of change, she took what was to be her last trip to the Soviet Union. All in all, she had visited the country a total of ten times, shadowed, however, each and every time by the secret services of both the USSR and GDR.

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Nachruf auf Lebende. Die Flucht

Christa Wolf

Obituary for the Living

Written in 1971, now published for the first time: the story of a young woman, the story of her flight.

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Rede, daß ich dich sehe

Christa Wolf

Speak, that I may see you

This volume is a collection of Christa Wolf’s late essays, lectures and interviews, put together by the author herself. Many of these texts are previously unpublished.

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Stadt der Engel

Christa Wolf

City of Angels or The Overcoat of Dr. Freud

It amounts to a veritable literary event: Christa Wolf’s completion of the major new novel on which she worked for more than ten years. City of Angels or The Overcoat of Dr. Freud reflects the entire life of the Büchner Prize-winning writer, repeatedly in connection with crucial moments in post-war German history. Readers familiar with her work will discover in this latest novel new and fascinating facets of her writing; others will view City of Angels as an opportunity to immerse themselves in the world of one of the great contemporary authors writing in German.

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Ein Tag im Jahr im neuen Jahrhundert

Christa Wolf

One Day a Year

After the overwhelming success of City of Angels (hitherto translated into 22 languages) there now follows the eagerly awaited posthumous publication of the second half of her diary project One Day a Year.

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Die Anstalt der besseren Mädchen

Julia Zange

The Girls' Improvement Institution

Loretta's in her mid-twenties and about as grown up as Kate Moss. She knows what kind of clothes suit her, hangs out with arty types of people, does a fair cover version of hip Bohemian life. She's no shrinking violet, but when it comes to the practicalities of life she depends on her boyfriend.

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Der Eindringling

Raul Zelik

The Intruder

Daniel has hardly seen his father Fil over the past 15 years. But when he moves to Berlin to be closer to him, Fil becomes seriously ill, leaving his son alone again – with many questions and the key to Fil’s apartment.

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Anarchy in the UKR

Serhij Zhadan

Anarchy in the UKR

»Forget politics, don't read the papers, don't go online, deny them your voice« - thus begins the 'Leftist March', a chapter of Serhiy Zhadan's second prose volume Anarchy in the UKR, the motto of which is derived from a song by the Sex Pistols.

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Depeche Mode

Serhij Zhadan

Depeche Mode

A poet and novelist whose work has been variously compared to Rimbaud, Charles Bukowski and Irvine Welsh, Serhiy Zhadan’s first novel Depeche Mode depicts Ukrainian youth during the turbulent 1990s. Described by the author as »a book about real male comradeship,« the novel follows the unemployed narrator and his friends, Jewish anti-Semite Dogg Pavlov and Vasia the Communist, on their adventures around Kharkiv and beyond.

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Die Erfindung des Jazz im Donbass

Serhij Zhadan

Voroshilovgrad

In expressive prose, Zhadan delivers a road novel from the edge of Europe that dares to dream the dream of freedom in a completely new way: as the search for home in a world without boundaries.

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Hymne der demokratischen Jugend

Serhij Zhadan

Democratic Youth Anthem

San Sanytsch, a wrestler with a highschool diploma, joins the »Boxers for Justice and Social Adaptation« who form a brigade of security guards controlling the markets near the tractor factory. After he is almost killed testing the strength of a bulletproof vest, he decides to become the business partner of Goga, a former classmate who returned from the Chechen war and dreams of owning his own club. In a dilapidated sandwich shop named Bread-and-Butter Bar, they open the city's first gay club.

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Internat

Serhij Zhadan

The Orphanage

A young teacher plans on bringing his 13-year-old nephew home from the boarding school at the other end of town. The school, in which his working sister has »parked« her son, has come under fire and no longer offers security. Crossing the town, in which civil life has broken down, takes a whole day.

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Mesopotamien

Serhij Zhadan

Mesopotamia

The setting of Serhiy Zhadan’s latest book is the Eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, here and now, a modern Babylon: a city in Mesopotamia, set at the riverbank of diverse languages and cultures. In the West, there is the river Dnepr, in the East the Donez, a sidearm of the river Don – all of the rivers that could represent the Ukraine and Russia. Zhadan’s Kharkiv is a place that changes its shape in each of the short stories: a Russian, a Ukrainian, and a Tartarian version of this multilingual and multicultural city exist.

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Nichts Weißes

Ulf Erdmann Ziegler

Nothing White

This is the story of Marleen, who falls in love with the world of letters before she has even learnt to read. Born into a family of successful advertisers and illustrators, she dreams as a young child of something truly great: the perfect font.

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Schottland und andere Erzählungen

Ulf Erdmann Ziegler

Scotland and Other Stories

For every story that ends, another begins. In Scotland’s Dundee, a female dancer watches the dividing of a nation. In Hamburg, a radicalised animal rights activist goes missing. A Berlin punk finds serenity in music after being wounded, and a young cameraman, tired of his job, becomes an adventurer. At the root of it is a desire for recognition, but recognition wakens other desires.

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