Think The Handmaid's Tale but with the women in charge, set in a world where all men are electronically tagged and placed under strict curfew, and the murder investigation threatening to undo it all. Imagine a near-future Britain in which women dominate workplaces, public spaces, and government. Where the gender pay gap no longer exists and motherhood opens doors instead of closing them. Where women are no longer afraid to walk home alone, to cross a dark parking lot, or to catch the last train. Where all men are electronically tagged and not allowed out after 7 p.m. But the curfew hasn’t made life easy for everyone. Sarah is a single mother who happily rebuilt her life after her husband, Greg, was sent to prison for breaking curfew. Now he’s about to be released, and Sarah isn’t expecting a happy reunion, given that she’s the reason he was sent there. Her teenage daughter, Cass, hates living in a world that restricts boys like her best friend, Billy. Billy would never hurt anyone, and she’s determined to prove it. Somehow. Helen is a teacher at the local school. Secretly desperate for a baby, she’s applied for a cohab certificate with her boyfriend, Tom, and is terrified that they won’t get it. The last thing she wants is to have a baby on her own. These women don’t know it yet, but one of them is about to be violently murdered. Evidence will suggest that she died late at night and that she knew her attacker. It couldn’t have been a man because a CURFEW tag is a solid alibi. Isn’t it?

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 grundverschiedene Menschen, die zufällig miteinander verwandt sind. Alle haben sie ihr eigenes Gepäck dabei: Geheimnisse, Wünsche, Wunden. Was sie jedoch vereint: das Gefühl, dass sie in Hüseyins Wohnung jemand beobachtet. Voller Wucht und Schönheit fragt „Dschinns“ nach dem Gebilde Familie, den Blick tief hineingerichtet in die Geschichte der vergangenen Jahrzehnte und weit voraus.

In this bold and provocative exploration of modern motherhood, three women cross paths on the road to self-discovery, grappling with the uncertainty of whether they can accept what they find. Gwen Fisher is suffering from postpartum stress. Angeni Luna is thriving in her social media enterprise. Sasha Robinson is grieving over the loss of her sister. All three are looking for something they can’t quite connection, validation, closure…any sign that they’re doing something right. They just might find it on Bainbridge Island. There, Angeni runs her “momfluencer” commune with its focus on staying present through all the noise. She has plenty of her own that she’s learned to quiet down over the years. Now she’s offering that same peace to anyone in search of it. And maybe that’s what Gwen and Sasha need. Peace. But how do you get something from someone who hasn’t truly given it to themselves? As they begin tapping into the truth of who they really are, they’ll discover what that means to the people who know and love them—and to those who only think they do…

»Das sind die Stimmen, die wir hören müssen. Damit es in diesem Land nicht noch finsterer wird.« Margarete StokowskiWie fühlt es sich an, tagtäglich als „Bedrohung“ wahrgenommen zu werden? Wie viel Vertrauen besteht nach dem NSU-Skandal noch in die Sicherheitsbehörden? Was bedeutet es, sich bei jeder Krise im Namen des gesamten Heimatlandes oder der Religionszugehörigkeit der Eltern rechtfertigen zu müssen? Und wie wirkt sich Rassismus auf die Sexualität aus? Dieses Buch ist ein Manifest gegen Heimat – einem völkisch verklärten Konzept, gegen dessen Normalisierung sich 13 Autor_innen wehren. Zum einjährigen Bestehen des sogenannten „Heimatministeriums“ sammeln Fatma Aydemir und Hengameh Yaghoobifarah schonungslose Perspektiven von Denker_innen, die Rassismus und Antisemitismus erfahren. In persönlichen Essays geben sie 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.  Mit Beiträgen von Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Max Czollek, Mithu Sanyal, Olga Grjasnowa uvm.

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 grundverschiedene Menschen, die zufällig miteinander verwandt sind. Alle haben sie ihr eigenes Gepäck dabei: Geheimnisse, Wünsche, Wunden. Was sie jedoch vereint: das Gefühl, dass sie in Hüseyins Wohnung jemand beobachtet. Voller Wucht und Schönheit fragt „Dschinns“ nach dem Gebilde Familie, den Blick tief hineingerichtet in die Geschichte der vergangenen Jahrzehnte und weit voraus.

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.

Think The Handmaid's Tale but with the women in charge, set in a world where all men are electronically tagged and placed under strict curfew, and the murder investigation threatening to undo it all. Imagine a near-future Britain in which women dominate workplaces, public spaces, and government. Where the gender pay gap no longer exists and motherhood opens doors instead of closing them. Where women are no longer afraid to walk home alone, to cross a dark parking lot, or to catch the last train. Where all men are electronically tagged and not allowed out after 7 p.m. But the curfew hasn’t made life easy for everyone. Sarah is a single mother who happily rebuilt her life after her husband, Greg, was sent to prison for breaking curfew. Now he’s about to be released, and Sarah isn’t expecting a happy reunion, given that she’s the reason he was sent there. Her teenage daughter, Cass, hates living in a world that restricts boys like her best friend, Billy. Billy would never hurt anyone, and she’s determined to prove it. Somehow. Helen is a teacher at the local school. Secretly desperate for a baby, she’s applied for a cohab certificate with her boyfriend, Tom, and is terrified that they won’t get it. The last thing she wants is to have a baby on her own. These women don’t know it yet, but one of them is about to be violently murdered. Evidence will suggest that she died late at night and that she knew her attacker. It couldn’t have been a man because a CURFEW tag is a solid alibi. Isn’t it?

"No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story. We have been constrained by unwritten rules not to do so, by the robes of tradition and by the sanctity of our exclusive calling...But I feel it is time to speak out." Celebrated as the most successful geisha of her generation, Mineko Iwasaki was only five years old when she left her parents' home for the world of the geisha. For the next twenty-five years, she would live a life filled with extraordinary professional demands and rich rewards. She would learn the formal customs and language of the geisha, and study the ancient arts of Japanese dance and music. She would enchant kings and princes, captains of industry, and titans of the entertainment world, some of whom would become her dearest friends. Through great pride and determination, she would be hailed as one of the most prized geishas in Japan's history, and one of the last great practitioners of this now fading art form. In Geisha, a Life, Mineko Iwasaki tells her story, from her warm early childhood, to her intense yet privileged upbringing in the Iwasaki okiya (household), to her years as a renowned geisha, and finally, to her decision at the age of twenty-nine to retire and marry, a move that would mirror the demise of geisha culture. Mineko brings to life the beauty and wonder of Gion Kobu, a place that "existed in a world apart, a special realm whose mission and identity depended on preserving the time-honored traditions of the past." She illustrates how it coexisted within post-World War II Japan at a time when the country was undergoing its radical transformation from a post-feudal society to a modern one. "There is much mystery and misunderstanding about what it means to be a geisha. I hope this story will help explain what it is really like and also serve as a record of this unique component of Japan's cultural history," writes Mineko Iwasaki. Geisha, a Life is the first of its kind, as it delicately unfolds the fabric of a geisha's development. Told with great wisdom and sensitivity, it is a true story of beauty and heroism, and of a time and culture rarely revealed to the Western world.