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Fiction

Mechanisms of power

Submitted by Fritz Freithoff on Thu, 05/08/2025 - 12:00
Fiction
Fann Attiki
Maurine Tric / Lenos
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Fann Attiki
"Cave 72", Fann Attiki's political satire about life and death in Brazzaville is also a disturbing and universally relevant portrait of a society held hostage by populism and dictatorship.
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Fiction

When wisdom puts the world's stupidity in its place

Submitted by Axel Timo Purr on Wed, 04/30/2025 - 07:20
Fiction
Jessica Zafra
Fancine Medina / Transit
In her coming-of-age novel "The Age of Umbrage", Jessica Zafra creates a gripping portrait of Philippine society under the Marcos regime that is frighteningly contemporary - and also universal
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When America was divided

Submitted by Christian Topp on Sun, 04/20/2025 - 12:00
Fiction
Cristina Henríquez
Brian McConkey
In her historical novel "The Great Divide", Cristina Henríquez weaves a series of smaller stories into a comprehensive picture of the "Panama Canal" project of the last century, which continues to divide the double continent to this day
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Fiction

Writing while disappearing

Submitted by Anina Englert on Sun, 04/13/2025 - 12:00
Fiction
Annie Ernaux
Heike Steinweg / Suhrkamp
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Annie Ernaux
Finally in German , "I Remain in Darkness" - and an Annie Ernaux who perhaps wants nothing more and literature that can do everything after all
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Rich women, stupid men

Submitted by Fritz Freithoff on Thu, 03/27/2025 - 13:00
Fiction
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Manny Jefferson
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Activism is rarely good for literature: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's emancipation novel "Dream Count" about four women in times of coronavirus is as redundant as it is annoying
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Fiction

Driving through the cold of a moonlit night

Submitted by Axel Timo Purr on Thu, 03/06/2025 - 13:00
Fiction
Felix Nesi
Arman Febrian
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Felix Nesi
Felix K. Nesi's "People from Oetimu" is a literary firework display that places an otherwise barely mentioned region of Indonesia at the heart of astonishing events
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Fiction

A boredom worth living for

Submitted by Axel Timo Purr on Thu, 02/20/2025 - 13:00
Fiction
Samantha Harvey
Rick Hewes
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Samantha Harvey
Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize winner "Orbital" shows from afar what, up close, we fail to grasp - the fragility of our planet and our solitary lives
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Fiction

Stupid yet still madly brilliant

Submitted by Fritz Freithoff on Mon, 12/30/2024 - 13:00
Fiction
Jean D'Ameique
Edouard Caupeil
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Edouard Caupeil
In his impressive debut novel "Soleil à coudre" (A Sun to be Sewn), Jean D'Amérique tells, in powerful language, of precarious circumstances, and of a childhood that finds validation not only through this language
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Fiction

A cruelly gentle dance of ghosts

Submitted by Axel Timo Purr on Sat, 12/28/2024 - 05:00
Fiction
Han Kang
Yeseul Jeon
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Han Kang
"We Do Not Part", the new novel by the recently awarded Nobel Prize winner Han Kang, tells of transgenerational trauma, a tender female friendship and a reunion with a mother. And a kind of hope
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Fiction

We were all sleeping

Submitted by Rudolf Isler on Wed, 12/18/2024 - 13:00
Fiction
Paul Lynch
Basso Cannarsa
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Paul Lynch
In his Booker Prize-winning "Prophet Song", Paul Lynch succeeds in transforming our fragile political present into a bleak vision more relevant than many political treatises
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