Tres tristes tigres

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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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Rachel Heath

"Tacita is pretending to ignore her husband's affair; Stella can't imagine wanting any more than she has; Theresa is determined to stay so busy, she won't have time to feel guilty; Zeki hopes no-one will find out what he's up to; Jonathan swigs whisky on the commuter train, wanting to believe his children are running free through the woods in their wellies; and Sheila, a widow, mother and grandmother has disappeared. In a small English town, everyone is struggling to be the person they think they should be. But sometimes the pressure is overwhelming."--Publisher's description.

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Marjorie White Pellegrino

Annie is unhappy that she has to share her grandmother, the mayor, with so many people, but when she helps out during a town emergency, Annie appreciates all that her grandmother does in the community.

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A. Manette Ansay

Here are the lives of rural people struggling to make sense of the isolated and often intensely religious worlds in which they live. Marie, a young wife and mother, recalls the effects of a statutory rape trial on her small community. Stuart, a devout teenage boy, dares to rename himself "Start," the only significant thing he has ever done without first consulting God. Widowed Eliza discovers her husband's ghost in the bathroom, flipping through pages of the Popular Mechanics magazines she had thrown out after his death.