In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between a literary coming-of-age narrative and a dark unsettling horror tale, told from an adult perspective on the trials and tribulations of growing up in a society that puts pressure on young women and their bodies... a powerful, relevant novel of immigration, sapphic longing, and fierce, defiant becoming.Ren Yu is a swimmer. Her daily life starts and ends with the pool. Her teammates are her only friends. Her coach, her guiding light. If she swims well enough, she will be scouted, get a scholarship, go to a good school. Her parents will love her. Her coach will be kind to her. She will have a good life. But these are human concerns. These are the concerns of those confined to land, those with legs. Ren grew up on stories of creatures of the deep, of the oceans and the rivers. Ones that called sailors to their doom. Ones that dragged them down and drowned them. Ones that feasted on their flesh. Ones of the creature that she's always longed to become: mermaid. Ren aches to be in the water. She dreams of the scent of chlorine--the feel of it on her skin. And she will do anything she can to make a life for herself where she can be free. No matter the pain. No matter what anyone else thinks. No matter how much blood she has to spill.

Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder, eine Chronik aus dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg. "Was eine Aufführung von Mutter Courage", schrieb Brecht einmal, "hauptsächlich zeigen soll: Daß die großen Geschäfte in den Kriegen nicht von den kleinen Leuten gemacht werden. Daß der Krieg, der eine Fortführung der Geschäfte mit anderen Mitteln ist, die menschlichen Tugenden tödlich macht, auch für ihre Besitzer. Daß er darum bekämpft werden muß."

Das Buch befaßt sich mit der sinnlich-anschaulichen Selbstdarstellung des deutschen Faschismus an der Macht. Am Beispiel des ,,Reichsparteitag der Einheit und Stärke'' der NSDAP im Jahre 1934 und dessen filmischer Stilisierung in dem Parteitagsfilm ,,Triumph des Willens" von Leni Riefenstahl werden die rituellen Szenarien der Gelöbnisfeiern als geistige Mobilmachung analysiert.

In Male Tears, a debut collection of stories that brings together over fifteen years of work, Benjamin Myers lays bare the male psyche in all its fragility, complexity and failure, its hubris and forbidden tenderness. Farmers, fairground workers and wandering pilgrims, gruesome gamekeepers, bare-knuckle boxers and ex-cons with secret passions, the men that populate these unsettling, wild and wistful stories form a multi-faceted, era-spanning portrait of just what it means to be a man.

Zwischen fast kultischer Verehrung als "größter weiblicher Filmemacher aller Zeiten" (New York Times) und der vor allem auch durch ihre sture Unbelehrbarkeit angestachelten wütenden Verurteilung als Propagandistin der Nationalsozialisten schwankt Leni Riefenstahls Charakterbild in der Geschichte. Ob eine Möglichkeit besteht, beide Einschätzungen zu vereinbaren, wird aber so gut wie nie geprüft. Am interessantesten liest sich in dem gut lesbaren, aber nicht immer ganz stilsicheren, die reichhaltige Literatur zu Riefenstahl auswertenden und abgewogen urteilenden, auch Riefenstahls Karriere vor und nach der Nazizeit und ihre Betätigung auf anderen künstlerischen Gebieten angemessen berücksichtigenden Lebensüberblick das Kapitel Nachruhm zu Lebzeiten, das diese Diskussion ausführlich darstellt

Zwischen fast kultischer Verehrung als "größter weiblicher Filmemacher aller Zeiten" (New York Times) und der vor allem auch durch ihre sture Unbelehrbarkeit angestachelten wütenden Verurteilung als Propagandistin der Nationalsozialisten schwankt Leni Riefenstahls Charakterbild in der Geschichte. Ob eine Möglichkeit besteht, beide Einschätzungen zu vereinbaren, wird aber so gut wie nie geprüft. Am interessantesten liest sich in dem gut lesbaren, aber nicht immer ganz stilsicheren, die reichhaltige Literatur zu Riefenstahl auswertenden und abgewogen urteilenden, auch Riefenstahls Karriere vor und nach der Nazizeit und ihre Betätigung auf anderen künstlerischen Gebieten angemessen berücksichtigenden Lebensüberblick das Kapitel Nachruhm zu Lebzeiten, das diese Diskussion ausführlich darstellt

From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two rivers, all under the shadow of one of the greatest epic poems of all time. “Make place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf… you won’t regret it.” (Arundhati Roy) In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives. In 1840 London, Arthur is born beside the stinking, sewage-filled River Thames. With an abusive, alcoholic father and a mentally ill mother, Arthur’s only chance of escaping destitution is his brilliant memory. When his gift earns him a spot as an apprentice at a leading publisher, Arthur’s world opens up far beyond the slums, and one book in particular catches his interest: Nineveh and Its Remains. In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a ten-year-old Yazidi girl, is diagnosed with a rare disorder that will soon cause her to go deaf. Before that happens, her grandmother is determined to baptize her in a sacred Iraqi temple. But with the rising presence of ISIS and the destruction of the family’s ancestral lands along the Tigris, Narin is running out of time. In 2018 London, the newly divorced Zaleekah, a hydrologist, moves into a houseboat on the Thames to escape her husband. Orphaned and raised by her wealthy uncle, Zaleekah had made the decision to take her own life in one month, until a curious book about her homeland changes everything. A dazzling feat of storytelling, There Are Rivers in the Sky entwines these outsiders with a single drop of water, a drop which remanifests across the centuries. Both a source of life and harbinger of death, rivers—the Tigris and the Thames—transcend history, transcend fate: “Water remembers. It is humans who forget.”

A gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human—and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.