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Von all den unglaublichen Dingen
Wenn ein Kind geboren wird, entsteht ein ganz neues Universum, aber auch Angst und Bangen und Unsicherheit. Ähnlich wie in dem preisgekrönten Prosaband "In was wir uns verlieben" verbindet Roman Simić seine neuen Erzählungen mit einem roten Faden, Dreh- und Angelpunkt ist das Elternsein. Der Maßstab seiner Helden sind die Schritte ihrer Kinder, ihre Mütter und Väter, ihre Zerwürfnisse, ihre Verliebtheiten - wir kennen das alles selbst nur allzu gut. Und wie immer geht es Simić um die Sache des Herzens. Der Mensch steht im Zentrum, aber anders als in seinem Erstling geht es nicht nur um zwei Verliebte, sondern um drei Menschen: Denn die Welt verändert sich, wenn ein Kind kommt.
Elsewhere
What do we mean by small town? How has this innocuous term – one up from ‘village’, a couple down from ‘city’ – come to function as a pejorative? Pressed to describe what the phrase ‘small town’ conjures up, we’d be hard pushed to say anything positive: closed-minded; petty; provincial; parochial. On a broad European canvas, however, the rich traditions of short story writing challenge these preconceptions. The stories collected here are neither narrow-minded nor petty, nor do the minds of their protagonists contract to fit their environment. In Germany, a house-husband is slowly sent over the edge by his over-achieving neighbours. In the town of Odda in Norway, a middle-aged Morrissey fan has a matter of hours to find a girlfriend so his ailing mother can die in peace. It’s the small gestures – a white lie, the turning of a blind eye, a small kindness or a secret kept – that allow the characters of these communities to survive, to breathe easily within the seemingly tight strictures life there can impose. It’s how we do things round here...
In was wir uns verlieben
Ein Sohn besorgt auf Wunsch seiner Mutter Blumen für die Beerdigung der Geliebten seines Vaters, zwei Liebende sind gefangen in einem Leben ohne Wahlmöglichkeiten, schmerzhafte Kindheitserinnerungen werden geweckt, als ein junger Mann mit seinem Vater im Garten des zerstörten Hauses arbeitet ... Vor dem Hintergrund der politischen Ereignisse im zerfallenden Ex-Jugoslawien handeln Simićs Geschichten von Hoffnung und Enttäuschung, Treue und Verrat sowie der Unmöglichkeit, den anderen Menschen vollständig zu verstehen. »In was wir uns verlieben« wurde 2005 mit dem Jutarnji-List-Preis für das beste kroatische Prosawerk ausgezeichnet.
Aliméntame
Todo un nuevo universo aflora con el nacimiento de un niño, pero también el miedo, la angustia y la incertidumbre. De modo similar a como hizo en De qué nos enamoramos, libro que se alzó con el premio del diario Jutarnji List a la mejor obra en prosa de 2005, Roman Simić vuelve a urdir esta colección de relatos mediante una cuestión, un hilo que halla su comienzo y su final en la paternidad. Un muchacho que escribe en un zoo una carta de amor que jamás enviará, un hombre que visita en un manicomio al marido de su amante, una joven que espera que el padre de su hijo no nacido no huya, una madre que evoca unas vacaciones estivales familiares diez años atrás, el verano que dio comien...
Jebel Marra
When war breaks out, a swarm of other industries quickly surrounds the battlefield; aid agencies, NGOs, international media corporations, mercenaries and private investors… all descend on the conflict like a second wave of invaders. Never was this more so than in 2004 when Darfur, in western Sudan, erupted into civil war. Accusations of government-sponsored ethnic cleansing and what the UN described as ‘the world’s worst humanitarian crisis’ combined to put this previously unheard-of region under the world’s spotlight. Yet, for all the influx of foreign agencies and outside interest, very little was (and still is) known about the causes of this conflict. Here, Michelle Green – a ...
Decapolis
Decapolis is a book which imagines the city otherwise. Bringing together ten writers from across Europe, it offers snapshots of their native cities, freezing for a moment the characters and complexities that define them. Ten cities: diverse, incompatible, contradictory in everything from language to landscape. In Amsterdam every Friday night, a lonely woman cooks for her men, a circle of middle-aged bachelors. In Barcelona, a self-regarding poet tries to capture the essence of the city in an eleven-word lyric. In Reykjavik, an unemployed journalist wanders through the deserted buildings of the newspaper he once wrote for. In all cases, these are cities in states of transition: Zagreb in the ...
I.D.
***Winner of the National Crime Short Story Prize*** Robert Barnard's contribution 'Sins of Scarlet' won the National Crime Short Story Prize. A woman contemplating suicide on Beachy Head finds a bench dedicated to the memory of herself. An art lover in Venice conducts a spree of mutilations as a response to the Surrealist Movement. At Heathrow Airport, armed police take up positions to apprehend the wrong man... The latest showcase of shorts from the CWA celebrates the ‘who’ in the whodunnit, the psyche behind the psychological profile. Husbands lead double lives, psychologists confuse perpetrators with ex-partners, neighbours reassess the people they thought they knew. It seems if there’s one thing you can’t classify or slap an ID card on, it’s the id. The collection includes stories by two recipients of the Crime Writers’ Association ‘Diamond Dagger’ lifetime achievement award (Peter Lovesey and Robert Barnard), and an American Grand Master awardee (Edward D Hoch, who has published more crime short stories than anyone else, ever!).
De qué nos enamoramos
Con un estilo cristalino y envolvente, los cuentos de Roman Simić bucean en la vida cotidiana de sus personajes para sacar a la superficie aquello que más les define: dudas, miedos, esperanzas, silencios... Como toda buena literatura, una vez cerrado el libro, sus historias te siguen acompañando y te reconfortan cuando más lo necesitas. Nadie como Roman Simić para describir con dolor, rapidez e ironía el paisaje humano de postguerra en ese lugar que hasta hace algunos años llamábamos Yugoslavia. No sólo porque como todo croata ha vivido la guerra en primera persona (es decir, con suficiente lucidez como para después no-narrarla), sino, porque en De qué nos enamoramos ha sabido pre...
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
