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Southern Reporter
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Ver|un|einigung
Der 9. November 1989 gilt als Wendepunkt der deutschen Geschichte, der im dominanzgesellschaftlichen Diskurs als eine Geschichte der 'Wiedervereinigung' der Deutschen mit den Deutschen erzählt wird. Viele Jüd*innen sowie Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichten kommen in dieser Erzählung nicht vor. Ihre Perspektiven, Befürchtungen und Zukunftsvisionen wurden und werden überschrieben. Für die jüdische Gemeinschaft markiert der Zerfall der Sowjetunion einen weiteren Wendepunkt: Rund 200.000 Jüd*innen aus der Sowjetunion wanderten zunächst in die DDR und wenig später in die BRD ein. In der sechsten Ausgabe von Jalta sind streitbare Positionen zur Vereinigung versammelt, die den Widersprüchen der deutsch-deutschen Einheit nachspüren und Kontroversen sichtbar machen.
Laura Laura
"[Francis] is just so good at the transcription and transformation of everyday ordinary life, all seen from sideways on, so that everything becomes so strange and so funny."–Tessa Hadley An elderly academic is accosted by a homeless woman on his way home from the cinema. She tells him her name is Laura. So begins a nightmarish journey for Gerald, who is forced to confront the mystery of his own past and to ask himself if he has lived a good life – or even a decent one. In the course of this very funny, sometimes disturbing and often moving novel, suppressed memories return to haunt him, including the question of the role he played in a family tragedy. Above all he has to assess the harm he may have done in a long-forgotten love affair. Those close to him suddenly appear unfathomable as he begins to question if he truly knows those closest to him and even himself. The problem with exploring the past, Gerald begins to see, is that there are an infinite number of ways to travel through it.
An Echo of Scandal
In the dead of night, with blood on her hands, she made her escape. Accused of murder, Alejandra flees her home, escaping to the southern edge of Spain, where she faces a life of poverty and destitution. Seduced by the power of the rich and the anonymity that waits across the water in Tangier, Ale makes a bid for a new start. But it will come at a cost: a life of deception. Because Ale's new friends want to know what she is running from, they want to know who she is and whether they can trust her. Fifty years later, a young American writer wanders the streets of Tangier, searching for inspiration. When he stumbles across a trace of Ale's life, he finds himself tangled in a story of scandal, love and danger that has not yet reached its end.
Laura
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The Years with Laura Diaz
_____________________ 'An admirable novel'- The Times 'In this portrait of men and women swept along by great events, and determined to be on the side of the angels, Fuentes has invested the often colourless world of politics with romantic ardour' - Sunday Telegraph _____________________ An epic and heartbreaking love story that will leave no one untouched. Like Fuentes's masterpiece The Death of Artemio Cruz, the action in this novel begins in the state of Veracruz and moves to Mexico City. From 1905 to 1978, Fuentes traces the extraordinary Laura Díaz; a life filled with a multitude of witty, heartbreaking scenes and the sounds, colours, tastes and scents of Mexico. Laura grows into a pol...
The Right World
While following the police investigation into femicide, you discover The Right World. A society that, as if reflected through a mirror capable of reversing gender roles, is matriarchal. Women make a career only if they have daughters; they have always guided the evolution of the species; the image of human perfection is Vitruvius' woman. It is men who demand equal opportunities, claim equal pay and less discrimination. Between international politics scenarios, the Holy Mother of the Church's statements, episodes of matriarchal fundamentalism, the policewoman who leads the investigation wonders whether to give birth to a daughter. Her doubts and the inquest run parallel along with the crescendo of history, up to the epilogue. It will then be up to you to decide if The Right World is a utopia, an ideal dream to be achieved, or a dystopia, a reality in which we would not want to live, neither as oppressors nor as oppressed.
The Versions of Us
Eva and Jim are nineteen and students at Cambridge when their paths first cross in 1958. And then there is David, Eva's then-lover, an ambitious actor who loves Eva deeply. The Versions of Us follows the three different courses their lives could take following this first meeting. Lives filled with love, betrayal, ambition but through it all is a deep connection that endures whatever fate might throw at them.
Laura
The prize-winning and bestselling author of "Montana 1948" now renders a novel of faith, obsession, and enduring love about a young boy's fascination with his father's poet mistress.
