On Not Reading Rizal
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Caroline S. Hau
How Misunderstanding is Essential to the Longevity of Two Filipino Literary Masterpieces
Journey into the heart of a toxic relationship
Gustav Bergman / Rowohlt
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Lina Wolff
In "Der Teufelsgriff" (The Devil's Grip) Lina Wolff masterfully tells the story of an "amour fou" between a Swedish woman and an Italian man in Florence
Harare's New Literary Mecca
Mgcini Nyoni
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Kristian Carlson (Sweden), Lame Pusetso (South Africa), Philani A. Nyoni (Zimbabwe) @ Harare International Literature Festival 2024
The Harare International Literary Festival not only shakes hands with writers, poets, academics and a former spy. It also fills a gaping void
Unwanted misfortune
Tara Sosrowardoyo
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Tash Aw
Tash Aw's memoir "Strangers on a Pier" is an illuminating and touching document about the search for family and national identity in times of migration
Love and unexpected moves in a time of grief
Kalpesh Lathigra
„Intermezzo“ - a musical interlude, an unexpected chess move, and now Sally Rooney’s latest novel, in which she tackles the universal themes of grief, loss and love
Eighteenth message: A cigarette between two deaths
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Blind blood in the corridor - a war diary from Gaza
Novel with black bars
Paula Winkler
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Clemens Böckmann
In "What you can get", Clemens Böckmann gives a harrowing insight into the life of a sex worker who spied for the Stasi and into the "real existing socialism" of the German Democratic Republic, which was dissolved in 1989
I am another in Palestine
Mathilde Pannet
What does it mean to be a Palestinian in the diaspora, an outsider who can only contemplate his homeland from his hereditary exile through the characters in his novels? A homeland of fading words, images and stories