Klaus and other stories

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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.

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Rafik Schami

Geschichten aus dem Damaskus der fünfziger Jahre. Rafik Schami erzählt vom Leben der Menschen dort, von Liebe und List, von Arbeit und Vergnügen in dieser unsicheren Zeit. Ein alter Orangenbaum wuchs bis zum Dach des ersten Stocks hoch. Dort wohnten Salma und ihr Mann. Sie war die schönste Frau der Straße... Es war eine arme Gegend, in der es kein Kino und natürlich noch kein Fernsehen, sondern allenfalls Radio gab. Man lebte von der Hand in den Mund und amüsierte sich, so gut es ging.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

An anthology of nineteenth-century American writer and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays and poems, including in their entirety his books "Nature: Addresses, and Lectures," "Essays: First and Second Series," "Representative Men," and "The Conduct of Life," as well as his volumes of poetry and other essays, addresses, and poems from his manuscripts.

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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.