Eine mitreißende Der große neue Roman von Abbas Khider – wie totalitäre Herrschaft in den Alltag dringt.Noah ist vierzehn Jahre alt und Taubenzüchter. Eines Tages flattern seine geliebten Tiere unruhig durch die Lüfte, über der Stadt kreisen die Helikopter des Kalifats. Noah erlebt einen Sommer voller Umbrü Für seinen Vater muss er Frauenkörper auf Produktfotos schwärzen, sein älterer Bruder steigt zum Leiter einer Sicherheitsbehörde auf, seine Mutter und seine Schwester dürfen nicht mehr allein aus dem Haus – und bald schon steht das Leben seiner Tauben auf dem Spiel. Mit großer Zartheit und feinem Humor erzählt »Der letzte Sommer der Tauben« vom Verlust der Kindheit und vom Erwachsensein in einer von Willkür und Gewalt bestimmten Gesellschaft. Eine mitreißende Geschichte voller eindringlicher Bilder – ein großer neuer Roman von Abbas Khider, der als Junge selbst Taubenzüchter war.

This is a prequel short story, told by Thomas and it is set the summer before Don't Let The Forest In. It happens one day before the flashback on page 208 in the book. Contains the slightest of spoilers for Don't Let The Forest In but it is a prequel so technically you can read it without reading the book first. It's told by Thomas Rye (which means you get to see Andrew through his eyes) and it's set the summer before the events of Don't Let The Forest In, aka before everything went very very badly! I hope you enjoy letting the forest in once more and spending just a little more time with Andrew, Thomas, and Dove. I don't imagine i'll ever write more of them so this is the bittersweet last time. You can read the story for free on the authors website.

A dazzling debut. Magic-realism blends with Japanese myth and legend in an original story about grief, memory, time and an earthquake that shook a nation. There's a catfish under the islands of Japan and when it rolls the land rises and falls. Sora hates the catfish whose rolling caused an earthquake so powerful it cracked time itself. It destroyed her home and took her mother. Now Sora and her scientist father live close to the zones – the wild and abandoned places where time runs faster or slower than normal. Sora is sensitive to the shifts, and her father recruits her help in exploring these liminal spaces. But it's dangerous there – and as she strays further inside in search of her mother, she finds that time distorts, memories fracture and shadows, a glimmer of things not entirely human, linger. After Sora's father goes missing, she has no choice but to venture into uncharted spaces within the time zones to find him, her mother and perhaps even the catfish itself... Stylish, accomplished and thought-provoking story-telling explores themes of identity, philosophy, science, ecology, life, loss and love.

Once upon a time, Andrew had cut out his heart and given it to this boy, and he was very sure Thomas had no idea that Andrew would do anything for him. Protect him. Lie for him. Kill for him. High school senior Andrew Perrault finds refuge in the twisted fairytales that he writes for the only person who can ground him to reality—Thomas Rye, the boy with perpetually ink-stained hands and hair like autumn leaves. And with his twin sister, Dove, inexplicably keeping him at a cold distance upon their return to Wickwood Academy, Andrew finds himself leaning on his friend even more. But something strange is going on with Thomas. His abusive parents have mysteriously vanished, and he arrives at school with blood on his sleeve. Thomas won’t say a word about it, and shuts down whenever Andrew tries to ask him questions. Stranger still, Thomas is haunted by something, and he seems to have lost interest in his artwork—whimsically macabre sketches of the monsters from Andrew’s wicked stories. Desperate to figure out what’s wrong with his friend, Andrew follows Thomas into the off-limits forest one night and catches him fighting a nightmarish monster—Thomas’s drawings have come to life and are killing anyone close to him. To make sure no one else dies, the boys battle the monsters every night. But as their obsession with each other grows stronger, so do the monsters, and Andrew begins to fear that the only way to stop the creatures might be to destroy their creator…

Dies ist eine Liebesgeschichte. Sie spielt im Juni, im Juli, im August in Adana, dreitausend Kilometer weit weg von Berlin. In Berlin lebt Zeko. Hier trifft er Männer in Parks und Cafés, auf Dating-Apps und vor der Moschee. Doch jedes Mal, wenn sich ihre Lippen berühren, reißen ihn die Gedanken zurück zu Hassan, dem Nachbarsjungen in Adana, den Dede, sein Großvater, immer nur »Hundesohn« nennt. Zeko kennt das laute Viertel, den Staub in den Gassen nur aus den Sommerferien. Dann stirbt Dede an einem Herzinfarkt. Aber Zeko will nicht vergessen, nicht den Großvater, der alten Männern die Sorgen aus dem Bart schnitt und auf Arabisch sang, nicht die religiösen Rituale und den Geschmack von Bamya. Und vor allem nicht Hassan. »In neun Tagen werde ich Hassan wiedersehen«, wiederholt er wie ein Mantra: beim Freitagsgebet, in der Therapiesitzung, im Prinzenbad, beim Mittagessen mit seiner besten Freundin Pari. Aber etwas ist geschehen, als Zeko und Hassan sich das letzte Mal sahen. Etwas, das immer heftiger heraufdrängt, je näher der Tag seiner Abreise kommt. Hundesohn erzählt radikal und poetisch von Liebe und Begehren. Von der Euphorie und Verletzlichkeit, der Angst und dem Glück, wenn man liebt. Vom leisen Schrei und lauten Flüstern: am Küchentisch, in fremden Betten und im Gebet. Und vermisst dabei unsere zerrissene Gegenwart, über alle Grenzen von Ländern, Sprache und Körper hinweg.

With the rising tide of steam power and machinery, who can come close to being a Beyonder? Shrouded in the fog of history and darkness, who or what is the lurking evil that murmurs into our ears? Waking up to be faced with a string of mysteries, Zhou Mingrui finds himself reincarnated as Klein Moretti in an alternate Victorian era world where he sees a world filled with machinery, cannons, dreadnoughts, airships, difference machines, as well as Potions, Divination, Hexes, Tarot Cards, Sealed Artifacts… The Light continues to shine but mystery has never gone far. Follow Klein as he finds himself entangled with the Churches of the world—both orthodox and unorthodox—while he slowly develops newfound powers thanks to the Beyonder potions. Like the corresponding tarot card, The Fool, which is numbered 0—a number of unlimited potential—this is the legend of "The Fool."

Award-winning poet Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and must reckon with her own struggles with depression and the birth of her first child. How she faces her joy, grief, anxiety, impending motherhood, and conflicted truce with the world results in a moving meditation on the nature, rapture, and perils of crying―from the history of tear-catching gadgets (including the woman who designed a gun that shoots tears) to the science behind animal tears (including moths who drink them) to the fraught role of white women's tears in racist violence. Told in short, poetic snippets, The Crying Book delights and surprises, as well as rigorously examines how mental illness can affect a family across generations and how crying can express women’s agency―or lack of agency―in everyday life. Christle’s gift is the freshness of her voice and honesty of her approach, both of which create an intimacy with readers as she explores a human behavior broadly experienced but rarely questioned. A beautiful tribute to the power of crying, and to working through despair to tears of joy.