Sharply observed, beautifully rendered stories about gender, sexuality, and nationality by a fresh new voice.The stories in New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 speak to a contemporary generation and explore the tension between an anonymous, globalized world and an irrepressible lust for connection. The result is an intimate document of niche moments, when relationships either run their course, take flight, or enter holding patterns.The characters in this collection are as intelligent and charming as they are lonely. In some stories, realistic urges materialize in magical settings: a couple discovers the ability to stop time together; another couple lives in an apartment where only one of them can hear a constant beeping, while the other must try to believe. In other stories, a nameless voice narrates the arc of a love affair through a list of the couple’s best and worst kisses; a father leaves his daughter in Israel to pursue a painting career in New York; and a sex worker falls in love with the Israeli photographer who studies her.The stories in this ambitious and exciting debut share a prevailing sense of existential strangeness, otherworldliness, and the search to belong, while the altering of time and space and memory creates unexpected magic. And yet there is something entirely familiar about the experiences of these characters, who are so brilliantly and subtly rendered by Shelly Oria’s capable mind.

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The first volume of this three-part autobiographical series begins in 1938 with the expulsion of the Kovacic family from their home of Switzerland, eventually leading to their settlement in the father's home country of Slovenia. Narrated by Kovacic as a ten-year-old boy, he describes his family's journey with uncanny naiveté. Before leaving their home, he imagines his father's home country as something beautiful out of a fairytale, but as they make their way toward exile, he and his family realize that any attempt to make a home in Slovenia will be in vain. Confronted by misery, hunger, and hostility, the young boy refuses to learn Slovenian and falls silent, his surroundings becoming a social, cultural and mental abyss.Kovačič meticulously, boldly, and sincerely portrays the objective, everyday world; the style is clear and direct. Told from the point of view of a child, one memory is interrupted by fragments and visions of another. Some are innocent and tender, while others are miserable and ruthless, resulting in a profound and heart-wrenching description of a period torn apart by conflict, reflected in the author's powerful and innovative command of language.

Set in Birmingham, The News Where You Are tells the funny, touching story of Frank, a local TV news presenter. Beneath his awkwardly corny screen persona, Frank is haunted by disappearances: the mysterious hit and run that killed his predecessor Phil Smethway; the demolition of his father’s post-war brutalist architecture; and the unmarked passing of those who die alone in the city. Frank struggles to make sense of these absences while having to report endless local news stories of holes opening up in people’s gardens and trying to cope with his resolutely miserable mother. The result is that rare thing: a page-turning novel which asks the big questions in an accessible way, and is laugh-out-loud funny, genuinely moving and ultimately uplifting.

One Man, one day, and a novel bursting with drama, comedy, and humanity.Kevin Quinn is a standard-variety American male: middle-aged, liberal-leaning, self-centered, emotionally damaged, generally determined to avoid both pain and responsibility. As his relationship with his girlfriend approaches a turning point, and his career seems increasingly pointless, he decides to secretly fly to a job interview in Austin, Texas. Aboard the plane, Kevin is simultaneously attracted to the young woman in the seat next to him and panicked by a new wave of terrorism in Europe and the UK. He lands safely with neuroses intact and full of hope that the job, the expansive city, and the girl from the plane might yet be his chance for reinvention. His next eight hours make up this novel, a tour-de-force of mordant humor, brilliant observation, and page-turning storytelling.

Most parents are reluctant to let their children stay home by themselves. When Paul’s parents finally decided to let him stay alone, it was an experience that he’d never forget.

First published in l965, Hubert Aquin’s Next Episode is a disturbing and yet deeply moving novel of dissent and distress. As he awaits trial, a young separatist writes an espionage story in the psychiatric ward of the Montreal prison where he has been detained. Sheila Fischman’s bold new translation captures the pulsating life of Aquin’s complex exploration of the political realities of contemporary Quebec.

“After my wife, Elizabeth Church, was murdered by the bellman Alfonse Padgett in the Essex Hotel, she did not leave me.”Sam Lattimore meets Elizabeth Church in 1970s Halifax, in an art gallery. The sparks are immediate, leading quickly to a marriage that is dear, erotically charged, and brief. In Howard Norman’s spellbinding and moving novel, the gleam of the marriage and the circumstances of Elizabeth’s murder are revealed in heart-stopping increments. Sam’s life afterward is complicated. For one thing, in a moment of desperate confusion, he sells his life story to a Norwegian filmmaker named Istvakson, known for the stylized violence of his films, whose artistic drive sets in motion an increasingly intense cat-and-mouse game between the two men. For another, Sam has begun “seeing” Elizabeth — not only seeing but holding conversations with her, almost every evening, and watching her line up books on a small beach. What at first seems simply hallucination born of terrible grief reveals itself, evening by evening, as something else entirely.Next Life Might Be Kinder is a story of murder, desperate faith, the afterlife, and of love as absolute redemption — from one of our most compelling storytellers at the height of his talents.

Germany’s master of wit and irony now for the first time in English.Hinrich takes his existence at face value. His wife, on the other hand, has always been more interested in the after-life. Or so it seemed. When she dies of a stroke, Hinrich goes through her papers, only to discover a totally different perspective on their marriage. Thus commences, a dazzling intellectual game of shifting realities.

Nexus е третата и последна част от култовата трилогия на Милър „Разпятие в розово" - опоетизираната практика на сексуалното общуване.Nexus - изтънчена и необичайна проза, философски вглъбена и сексуално наситена, е една дълга и много лична борба със света, плътта, дявола и ангела.

A stunning work that sings with energy and expectation, Nexus is the last volume of the Rosy Crucifixion series, and the last major effort from this renowned author. Speaking of his life with June, and her friend who had gone on before, the work paints this bizarre trio. Still later, the time comes when Henry, finally, is free of NY, free of America, and free to truly begin writing as he'd been wanting to for so long. The only major novel in American letters to begin "Woof Woof," as it must.

Spanning the waning years of vaudeville and the golden age of Hollywood, Niagara Falls All Over Again chronicles a flawed, passionate friendship over thirty years, weaving a powerful story of family and love, grief and loss. In it, McCracken introduces her most singular and affecting hero: Mose Sharp — son, brother, husband, father, friend… and straight man to the fat guy in baggy pants who utterly transforms his life.To the paying public, Mose Sharp was the arch, colorless half of the comedy team Carter and Sharp. To his partner, he was charmed and charming, a confirmed bachelor who never failed at love and romance. To his father and sisters, Mose was a prodigal son. And in his own heart and soul, he would always be a boy who once had a chance to save a girl’s life — a girl who would be his first, and greatest, loss.Born into a Jewish family in small-town Iowa, the only boy among six sisters, Mose Sharp couldn’t leave home soon enough. By sixteen Mose had already joined the vaudeville circuit. But he knew one thing from the start: “I needed a partner,” he recalls. “I had always needed a partner.”Then, an ebullient, self-destructive comedian named Rocky Carter came crashing into his life — and a thirty-year partnership was born. But as the comedy team of Carter and Sharp thrived from the vaudeville backwaters to Broadway to Hollywood, a funny thing happened amid the laughter: It wasMose who had all the best lines offstage.Rocky would go through money, women, and wives in his restless search for love; Mose would settle down to a family life marked by fragile joy and wrenching tragedy. And soon, cracks were appearing in their complex relationship… until one unforgivable act leads to another and a partnership begins to unravel.In a novel as daring as it is compassionate, Elizabeth McCracken introduces an indelibly drawn cast of characters — from Mose’s Iowa family to the vagabond friends, lovers, and competitors who share his dizzying journey — as she deftly explores the fragile structures that underlie love affairs and friendships, partnerships and families.An elegiac and uniquely American novel, Niagara Falls All Over Again is storytelling at its finest — and powerful proof that Elizabeth McCracken is one of the most dynamic and wholly original voices of her generation.

Dies ist die Geschichte von Marleen, die sich, noch ehe sie Lesen lernt, in die Welt der Buchstaben verliebt. Hineingeboren in eine erfolgreiche Werber- und Illustratorenfamilie, träumt sie früh von wahrhaft Großem: der perfekten Schrift.An der Kunsthochschule hat sie Rückenwind, kann Marleen sich selbst Kontur verleihen. Ihr Pioniergeist treibt sie voran, bald steckt sie mittendrin in der Jobwelt der Achtziger — und erliegt deren Verheißungen. Die Medien erfahren einen Schub, plötzlich geht alles rasend schnell, schon hat man den Halt verloren. Sie muss erste Rückschläge einstecken, berufliche wie private. Flexibilität ist gefragt, schon in den Anfangszeiten der Globalisierung, und Marleen gibt sich flexibel, koste es, was es wolle — in der Hoffnung, dass ihr Traum weniger flüchtig ist als die Welt, gegen die es gilt, ihn wahrzumachen.Mit Nichts Weißes legt Ulf Erdmann Ziegler den Roman einer Generation vor, für die das Hereinbrechen des Computerzeitalters identisch ist mit dem eigenen Erwachsenwerden. Randscharf, raffiniert, brillant.

John Gardner's most poignant novel of improbable love.At the heart of John Gardner's Nickel Mountain is an uncommon love story: when at 42, the obese, anxious and gentle Henry Soames marries seventeen-year-old Callie Wells — who is pregnant with the child of a local boy — it is much more than years which define the gulf between them. But the beauty of this novel is the gradual revelation of the bond that develops as this unlikely couple experiences courtship and marriage, the birth of a son, isolation, forgiveness, work, and death in a small Catskill community in the 1950s. The plot turns on tragic events — they might be accidents or they might be acts of will — involving a cast of rural eccentrics that includes a lonely amputee veteran, a religious hysteric (thought by some to be the devil himself) and an itinerant "Goat Lady." Questions of guilt, innocence, and even murder are eclipsed by deeds of compassion, humility, and redemption, and ultimately by Henry Soames' quiet discovery of grace.Novelist William H. Gass, a friend and colleague of the author, has written an introduction that shines new light on the work and career of the much praised but often misunderstood John Gardner.

Gerd Hansen, młoda nauczycielka plastyki uwielbiana przez uczniów, jest osobą dość skrytą. Któregoś dnia wścibska dziennikarka Goggo odnajduje w jej mieszkaniu projekty gobelinów utalentowanej artystki, która kilka lat wcześniej zaginęła w nie wyjaśnionych okolicznościach na drugim końcu Norwegii. Opublikowanie tej sensacyjnej wiadomości w lokalnej prasie wywołuje lawinę zdarzeń.

Komedia obyczajowa, kontynuacja losów dwóch rodzin zabużańskich, osadników na Dolnym Śląsku, którzy po latach szukają męża dla swej wnuczki, by zdobyć następcę do swojego gospodarstwa. Stary Pawlak, ciężko chory, musi przekazać swą ziemię. Ale starszy syn Witia, ożeniony z Jadźką Kargulówną, więcej gruntów uprawiać nie może, młodszy zaś, Paweł, jest pracownikiem naukowym we Wrocławiu. Cała nadzieja we wnuczce, osiemnastoletniej Ani. Pawlak i Kargul postanawiają ją wydać za mąż za młodego technika mechanizacji rolnictwa Zenka. Ich przemyślna intryga doprowadza do szczęśliwego finału – młodzi pobiorą się, a ziemia zostanie w rodzinie.

Markus Lee reist in den Herbstferien in die Normandie, um für ein Hamburger Kunstmagazin Brücken zu zeichnen, die bei der Landung der Alliierten im Sommer 1944 eine entscheidende Rolle spielten. Lee nimmt seinen fünfzehnjährigen Neffen Jesse mit, dessen bester Freund mit seiner Familie in Nordfrankreich ein verlassenes Strandhotel hütet. Überschattet wird die Reise von der Trauer um Jesses Mutter Ira, deren Suizid der Bruder und der Sohn jeder für sich verwinden müssen. In der verwunschenen Atmosphäre des Hotels L’Angleterre entwickelt sich der geplante einwöchige Aufenthalt zu einer monatelangen Auszeit, die nicht nur für Markus Lee einen Wendepunkt im Leben markiert.NIE MEHR NACHT erzählt schonungslos und ergreifend von der Befreiung Frankreichs, bei der zahllose junge Männer umkamen, die kaum älter als Jesse waren. Dem Zeichner aber ist es zunehmend unmöglich, die Verheerungen des Krieges künstlerisch darzustellen. Doch beinahe noch schwerer fällt es ihm, den Tod der geliebten Schwester zu vergessen. Denn während ein dramatisches Kapitel europäischer Geschichte auf unheimliche Weise in ihm auflebt, stellt sich Markus Lee einem Trauma der eigenen Jugend und Abgründen seiner Familie.

Losy dwojga czeskich emigrantów, powracających do ojczyzny po dwudziestoletnim wygnaniu. Drogi Ireny i Josefa krzyżują się dopiero na ostatnich stronach książki.