by Rafik Schami (1996)
»Als ich dort angefangen habe, war ich der erste Ausländer im Betrieb. Später kamen Jugoslawen und Türken dazu, aber am ersten Tag haben mich die Leute angeglotzt, als wäre ich von einem anderen Stern...« Rafik Schami schreibt vom täglichen Leben der Arbeitsemigranten bei uns, von Heimweh und Diskriminierung, von Einsamkeit und Mißverständnissen, von Behördenkrieg und Sprachschwierigkeiten. Aber auch von manchem kleinen Sieg über den grauen Alltag.
Barbara Hamby
In this book of poetry, Barbara Hamby races through the circuitous regions of heaven and hell, desire and love, trailing words ahead of and behind her, giving shape and significance to the strange and the familiar. Not limited to the self-referential, Hamby playfully references historic and literary personae, taking stabs at Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the Bible, and Casanova.
Arnošt Lustig
"The Bitter Smell of Almonds brings together for the first time Arnost Lustig's short-story collection Street of Lost Brothers, the novel Dita Saxova, and the novellas of Indecent Dreams. The works in this omnibus edition reverberate with the torments of suffering and survival, loss and contradiction. Lustig's themes are as old and as universal as humankind's search for the meaning of existence, and his characters, often confronted with people or situations they cannot comprehend, attempt to come to terms with the unthinkable and with life itself."--BOOK JACKET.
Allan Massie
"Klaus, the novella that opens, and to some extent, dominates this collection, tells the story of Klaus Mann, son of Thomas, and in spite of the long shadow of so famous a father, an important novelist and political activist in his own right. His struggle against Nazism gave him a focus, but its demise and what he perceived as Germany's inability to change led to depression and an early death--"--Publisher description.
Shauna Singh Baldwin
"Shauna Singh Baldwin's passionate stories dramatize the lives of Indian women from 1919 to today, from India to North America, and from the closed circle of the family to the wilderness of office and university. These women inhabit silence; by saying little, they can know everything. Some, imprisoned by silence, choke on their knowledge. Some use knowledge with bloody force against their oppressors. And some harness its power to seize their freedom."--Jacket.