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Living In Between
"The value of actions doesn't lie in theiroutcomes, but rather in what happens betweenthem." This quote from Maria Reinecke is wellsuited to her novel Living In Between, which isnow available in a new, revised edition in Germanand American English. The focus of this literarywork is less on the culmination of its plot as muchas what takes place within the story's spacetimeinterstices. The finest perceptions and feelingsof the two protagonists Marie and Anne - oris one of them only a reflection of the other? -form condensed interludes within and alongsidethe dramatic sequence of events. Memories,reflections, dreams, and traumas provide gentleaccompaniment to the plot and give readers directinsight into the characters' tumultuous inner lives.
Nothing Lasts Forever Anymore
"Using Spain of the booming 1980s ashis example, Lederer describes a world,and a pace of life, fast disappearing.Globalization, interconnectivity,modernization and financial pressures arebringing to an end that slower rhythm towhich men and women have moved...forever. In "Nothing Lasts ForeverAnymore", a small family is faced withnew choices as expanding communitiesencircle the little seaside farm on whichthey have lived for generations. Whateverthey decide to do, even having thosechoices means that things will never be thesame."
Light Breeze in Paradise
The narrator turns her back on Berlin and the hectic throb of the big city for a summer, in order to recharge and reconnect with herself in the seclusion of a Greek mountain village. For the first little while she passes the time silently on a terrace. A terrace on the hillside, looking out over the great expanse of the ocean. She lives surrounded by insects and other animals that eventually become her friends. She takes time to experience changes in light and transformations of the sea, to take notice of the hidden and inconspicuous things in her environment, the glimmer of what lies concealed. It is only after some days have passed that she is struck by the desire to meet people again, and...
Surferboy
Steve wants to be a surfer – one of those demi-gods who walk on water. But for a kid from the San Fernando Valley who's scared of the ocean this is no easy task. Through his encounters with tough Malibu locals, shady surfboard designers, haole-hating Hawaiians, uptight surf stars, sex-hungry surf groupies and stoned big-wave riders, Steve learns the humorous as well as the darker side of surfing. With finely honed irony and a lightness of touch, Kevin McAleer tells a story of friendship, coming of age in the 1970s, and the fascination of surfing – while also imparting a wealth of knowledge that can compete with any how-to book on the sport (including an extensive surf glossary as appendix).
Berlin Is My Paris
Her thoughts actually revolved around Paris, stoking the fire of her imagination. Paris, the dream of a city that kept her going. Yet she decided on the incomplete city of Berlin, a city of change and aspiration: A mirror of her own development and symbolic for arrival in a new world. Romanian author Carmen-Francesca Banciu has lived in Berlin since 1991 and has since become a part of the city herself. In her autobiographical reports and literary miniatures, she immerses herself in the life of the metropolis, visits enchanting localities from world history, and tells of her encounters with interesting and unique people. She whisks readers away to her favorite cafes, goes on journeys of discovery through dreamy courtyards, and shows how Paris can be forgotten in this New Berlin. Melancholic, jovial, and idiosyncratic stories of life between two cultures and of a city that is once again starting to exude cosmopolitan air.
The Great Game
The Great Game is a collection of eighteen short stories. The American West is supposed to be wild compared to the East. In Europe, it is the other way around. Lederer has lived in and writes about each of these places. He finds the differences are not as convenient as the myths. A hitchhiking trip across America. A drunk horse in California. A train from Berlin to Warsaw. Powerlessness among the rich. Innocence in New York City. Home. These are some of the themes explored in this book.
Mother's Day
Maria-Maria had broken away from her domineering mother long before her physical death, or at least she thought she had. Neither mother's cruel lashings nor her cutting criticism had prevented her from rejecting the values and ideals that her authoritarian and Communist party-line- towing parents held so dearly. To their crushing dismay, she would not deploy her artistic talents toward embodying the Ceaucescian model of the "new human." Quite the contrary, she was going to revel in being imperfect, and embark on a journey of self-exploration in order to discover what it means to be a self that is not defined by being her mother's daughter or a mother to her own daughter. Putting everything a...
Undinen
UNDINEN müssen nicht unbedingt einen Fischleib haben, wie die Undine im Märchen, und sie finden sich auch nicht nur im Wasser, sondern zum Beispiel auch im Supermarkt oder im Klavierkonzert. Wie sich Beziehungen trotz ihrer Unmöglichkeiten entfalten und wie sie trotz höchster Gefühle enden, führt Reinhard Knodt in einem Reigen von 15 Erzählungen vor. Die Begegnungsvarianten sind reichhaltig. Selbst mit einem Engel versucht es der Autor. Aber auch die Verhinderungsgründe sind von zwingender Logik und gelegentlich so absurd schön, dass man am Ende zugibt, nur das dauernd verhinderte Ende ist die eigentliche Konvention der Liebe, und die Haltbarkeit einer Ehe erfordert gar höhere Phil...
A Kafkaesque Memoir
A Kafkaesque Memoir is that rarity in the psychological literature: a patient's account of the complete arc of his own psychoanalysis from first session to last. It is the memoir of a literature professor who walks into a psychotherapist's office one day seeking a quick hypnotherapy fix for a driving phobia and ends up staying for a nine-year Jungian analysis that fundamentally transforms him. Looking back on his recently completed analysis, the professor recreates his near-decade-long conversation with his analyst, a dialogue that gradually unearths the roots of a deep sense of guilt he feels over an "abandoned child." This personal psychological drama unfolds in the context of certain cult...
Leben in den Zwischenräumen
"Nicht der Ablauf der Dinge ist ihr Wert, sondernwas sich zwischen ihnen ereignet." Dieses Zitatvon Maria Reinecke gilt auch für ihren Roman"Leben in den Zwischenräumen", der jetzt inneuer, überarbeiteter Form/Fassung auf Deutschund in amerikanischer Übersetzung vorliegt: nichtder Ablauf der Handlung steht im Vordergrund,sondern was sich in den raumzeitlichenZwischenräumen des Erzählten vollzieht,gewinnt Bedeutung: feinste Wahrnehmungen,Empfindungen der beiden ProtagonistinnenMarie und Anne - oder ist es nur eine, die sichin der anderen spiegelt? - stehen als verdichteteRuhepunkte in und neben dem dramatischenGeschehen; Erinnerungen, Reflexionen, Träume,Traumata begleiten die szenischen Abläufe leiseund lassen den Leser unmittelbar teilhaben an deninneren Erregungszuständen der Figuren.
