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36 Stunden. Die Geschichte vom Fräu...

Ödön von Horváth

36 Stunden. Die Geschichte vom Fräulein Pollinger

Sie hatte halt so ihre Geschichten, das Fräulein Pollinger aus der Schellingstraße in München, sie fiel bei den besseren Herren nirgends besonders auf, denn sie hatte nur eine Durchschnittsfigur und ein Durchschnittsgesicht, nicht unangenehm, aber auch nicht hübsch, nur nett. Aber an jenem schwülen Augustabend des Jahres 1928 fällt Agnes Pollinger dem Eugen Reithofer besonders auf. Vor dem Arbeitsamt in der Thalkirchner Straße. Er ist seit zwei Monaten ohne Arbeit, sie seit fünf. Und damit...

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Ödön von Horváth

Die vertauschten Betten

Джованни Боккаччо

Die vertauschten Betten

Pinuccio ist in Niccolosa verliebt, deshalb sucht er nach einer passenden Gelegenheit sich ihrer Liebe zu erfreuen. Pinuccio und sein Freund Adriano bitten Niccolosas Vater die beiden zu beherbergen, da sie von einer angeblichen Reise von der Nacht überrascht wurden. Nachts legt sich Pinuccio dann zu Niccolosa, aber nicht nur er tauscht sein Bett, es kommt zu allerlei Verwechslung … Wolf Frass liest die Novelle aus Giovanni Boccaccios weltbekannten «Dekameron».

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Джованни Боккаччо

Miss Iceland

Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

Miss Iceland

Miss Iceland (Ungfrú Ísland) published in Iceland in 2018 and won the Icelandic Bookseller's Prize, and was longlisted for the Icelandic Literary Prize, and the Icelandic Women's Prize. Though set in 1960’s Iceland, this novel has an incredibly prescient and timely plot—that of an intellectual young woman trying to realize her dream of being a writer and determined to live on her own terms while being confronted with misogyny, sexism, and harassment. Olafsdottir also tackles issues of...

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Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

The Deeper the Water the Uglier the...

Katya Apekina

The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish

*2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist*Longlisted for The Crook’s Corner Book Prize *Longlisted for the 2019 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award*A Best Book of 2018 —Kirkus Reviews , BuzzFeed News , Entropy , LitReactor , LitHub * 35 Over 35 Award 2018 [/i] *One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Fall —[i]Vulture , Harper's BAZAAR , BuzzFeed News , Publishers Weekly , The Millions , Bustle , Fast Company It’s 16-year-old Edie who finds their mother Marianne dangling...

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Katya Apekina

The Blurry Years

Eleanor Kriseman

The Blurry Years

*A Best Book of 2018 — Entropy “Kriseman’s is a new voice to celebrate.” —Publishers Weekly The Blurry Years is a powerful and unorthodox coming-of-age story from an assured new literary voice, featuring a stirringly twisted mother-daughter relationship, set against the sleazy, vividly-drawn backdrop of late-seventies and early-eighties Florida. Callie—who ages from six to eighteen over the course of the book—leads a scattered childhood, moving from cars to strangers’ houses to the...

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Eleanor Kriseman

Echo on the Bay

Masatsugu Ono

Echo on the Bay

"Cross García Márquez and Simenon and set the piece on the Sea of Japan, and you’ll have a feel for Ono’s latest… Fans of Kenzaburo Oe’s Death by Water and Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 will enjoy Ono’s enigmatic story.” — Kirkus (starred review) All societies, whether big or small, try to hide their wounds away. In this, his Mishima Prize-winning masterpiece, Masatsugu Ono considers a fishing village on the Japanese coast. Here a new police chief plays audience for the locals, who...

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Masatsugu Ono

The President’s Room

Ricardo Romero

The President’s Room

In a nameless suburb in an equally nameless country, every house has a room reserved for the president. No one knows when or why this came to be. It’s simply how things are, and no one seems to question it except for one young boy. The room is kept clean and tidy, nobody talks about it and nobody is allowed to use it. It is for the president and no one else. But what if he doesn’t come? And what if he does? As events unfold, the reader is kept in the dark about what’s really going on. So much...

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Ricardo Romero

August

Romina Paula

August

Traveling home to rural Patagonia, a young woman grapples with herself as she makes the journey to scatter the ashes of her friend Andrea. Twenty-one-year-old Emilia might still be living, but she’s jaded by her studies and discontent with her boyfriend, and apathetic toward the idea of moving on. Despite the admiration she receives for having relocated to Buenos Aires, in reality, cosmopolitanism and a career seem like empty scams. Instead, she finds her life pathetic. Once home,...

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Romina Paula

Wallenstein

Friedrich Schiller

Wallenstein

Wallenstein Friedrich Schiller, 1759-1805, wurde zum meistgespielten Klassiker der deutschen Bühne. Er gilt als der Dramatiker des deutschen Idealismus. Eines seiner größten Werke ist «Wallenstein», die Geschichte eines Mannes, der im Krieg ganz nach oben steigt und fällt, auch weil er sich für ein gemeinsames Europa einsetzt. Krieg, Macht, Tod, Liebe und Hass sind die großen Themen dieses Abenteuers. "Wallenstein" als modernes Hörspiel in 11 Akten mit 22 Schauspielern in 88 Szene...

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Friedrich Schiller

The Orange Grove

Larry Tremblay

The Orange Grove

Twin brothers Amed and Aziz live in the peaceful shade of their family’s orange grove. But when a bomb kills the boys’ grandparents, the war that plagues their country changes their lives forever. Blood must repay blood, and, in order to avenge their grandparents’ deaths, one brother must offer the ultimate sacrifice. Years later, the surviving twin  now a student actor in a wintry Montreal  is given a role which forces him to confront the past....

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Larry Tremblay

The Sisters of Glass Ferry

Kim Michele Richardson

The Sisters of Glass Ferry

A SIBA OKRA Pick “An emotionally resonant tale of secrets, regret, and absolution that held me spellbound. You simply have to read it.” —Sara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Water for ElephantsSpanning several decades and written in an authentic voice both lyrical and wise, The Sisters of Glass Ferry is a haunting novel about small-town Southern secrets, loss and atonement, and the unbreakable bond between siblings. Glass Ferry, Kentucky, is bourbon country. Whiskey has been...

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Kim Michele Richardson

All Inclusive

Farzana Doctor

All Inclusive

A story about one all-inclusive resort, the ghost of an unknown father, and the tragedies we can’t forget. What’s it like when everyone’s dream vacation is your job? Ameera works at a Mexican all-inclusive resort, where every day is paradise – if “paradise” means endless paperwork, quotas to meet, and entitled tourists. But it’s not all bad: Ameera’s pastime of choice is the swingers scene, and the resort is the perfect place to hook up with like-minded couples without all the hassle of having...

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Farzana Doctor

Durch Liebe erlöst (Ungekürzt)

Ксюша Ангел

Durch Liebe erlöst (Ungekürzt)

Als Udo Graf Plessentin eines Tages unangekündigt zu dem kleinen Landhaus in der Nähe von Paris fährt, das er seit einiger Zeit regelmäßig besucht, erlebt er eine schlimme Überraschung: Er findet Liliane, die Frau, die er über alles liebt, in den Armen eines anderen Mannes – vertieft in Zärtlichkeiten. Der junge Graf sieht rot, und im nächsten Moment kracht ein Schuss. Und dann ist nichts mehr, wie es war. Fünf Jahre vergehen, bis Udo und Liliane einander wieder begegnen. Es ist ein Wiedersehen,...

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Ксюша Ангел

Das Ende der Sterne wie Big Hig sie...

Ксюша Ангел

Das Ende der Sterne wie Big Hig sie kannte (ungekürzt)

Eine Liebeserklärung an die Welt, wie sie hätte sein können. Die Welt ist untergegangen, aber Hig hat überlebt. Ebenso sein einziger Nachbar, ein menschenfeindlicher Waffennarr mit dem Herz auf dem rechten Fleck, der ihn – brutal, aber verlässlich – beschützt. Hig lebt im Hangar eines verwilderten Flughafens und tuckert mit einer alten Cessna übers Gelände, sein Hund Jaspar ist sein treuer Copilot. Man schlägt sich halt so durch. Dann empfängt er plötzlich ein Funksignal. Gibt es doch noch...

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Ксюша Ангел

Malafemmena

Louisa Ermelino

Malafemmena

 “There is lyricism in the language of Ms. Ermelino’s splendid collection that lulls us, line after seductive line, from the mundane to the menacing. [i]Malafemmena is the work of a bold and original writer.”—Gay Talese  “What Louisa Ermelino knows about the heart could fill a book and has. The unadorned authenticity of her prose is so powerful, it gave me whiplash. I read [i]Malafemmena in one sitting and wanted more, more,...

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Louisa Ermelino

Welcome to America

Linda Boström Knausgård

Welcome to America

"A piercing story of a girl who responds to trauma by mustering the most powerful weapon available to her: silence. (…) melodic, mythological, transformative, a testament to literature’s powers…" Vanity Fair Ellen has stopped talking. She thinks she may have killed her dad. Her brother’s barricaded himself in his room. Their mother, a successful actress, carries on as normal. We’re a family of light! she insists. But darkness seeps in everywhere and in their separate worlds each of them...

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Linda Boström Knausgård

The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory

Stacy Wakefield

The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory

Nominated for the Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize for Fiction"Wakefield wrote an intrepid nonfiction book about modern squatting, Not for Rent (1996), and now vividly fictionalizes the experience, portraying various oddball characters in her charmingly laid-back, dialogue-rich first novel with empathy and insight."–Booklist"Wakefield…draws on personal experience for this colorful and entertaining depiction....the sentiment of the nomadic community in New York in the...

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Stacy Wakefield

The Perfume Burned His Eyes

Michael Imperioli

The Perfume Burned His Eyes

First printing of 20,000The debut novel from Michael Imperioli, a well-known and respected actor, best known for his role of «Christopher» on The Sopranos .Imperioli is also very well-connected in the theater and literary worlds, having launched his own theatre company, appeared at NYC's Symphony Space's Selected Shorts reading selections from Paul Auster's work, and has been involved in other readings at the Queens Museum of Art, etc.Imperioli is very motivated to publicize and...

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Michael Imperioli

Like a Dog

Tara Jepsen

Like a Dog

Debut novel from someone firmly entrenched in the LA arts scene. Jepsen has acted in the Emmy-Award winning show Transparent and a web series with Beth Lisick on ( Transparent creator) Jill Soloway's site, wifey.tv. She's also appeared in music videos for Peaches and the band Two Gallants. Jepsen's novel is from the point of view of a female skater, the culture of female skaters in particular was recently covered in the New York Times . Tara Jepsen's prose is fresh,...

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Tara Jepsen

The Storyteller

Pierre Jarawan

The Storyteller

For readers of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner comes a ”pacy Lebanese mystery. A man is haunted by his father’s disappearance in this acclaimed debut novel set against the backdrop of Middle Eastern politics" ― The Guardian Samir leaves the safety and comfort of his family’s new homeland, Germany, for volatile Beirut in an attempt to find his missing father. The only clues Samir has are an old picture of his father and the memory of the bedtime stories he used to tell. The...

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Pierre Jarawan

Mostly White

Alison Hart

Mostly White

The author grew up in the only mixed-race family in an all-white suburb; with Mostly White , she speaks to mixed-race experiences many have but do not see widely depicted in literature. A strong theme of institutionalized racism ties in to current nationwide discussions of race and class. The author is well-established in the California literary scene; she has been a featured reader at the LA Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival, the Works/San Jose Art and Performance Center, Oakland Beast...

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Alison Hart

Throw

Rubén Degollado

Throw

"Llorona was no harmless little pigeon. She was the lechuza, the owl you see just before someone is about to die, the one that haunts you in your dreams and you never want to see in real life because it means you are about to lose someone you love." Llorona is the only girl Guero has ever loved. A wounded soul, she has adopted the name of a ghost from Mexican folklore. True to her namesake, Llorona cast Guero away with the coldness of the apparition she has become. But Guero–though he...

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Rubén Degollado

"Muslim"

Zahia Rahmani

"Muslim"

Zahia Rahmani was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and as a member of the College of the Diversity. She was awarded Special Mention Prize by the Prix Wepler-Fondation La Poste for Muslim: A Novel ; the prize is given annually to a book that displays an «audacity, an excess, a singularity that escapes commercial purviews.» She is considered one of France’s leading art historians and writers, and is currently a visiting professor at NYU’s Gallatin Faculty. Muslim: A Novel is the second...

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Zahia Rahmani

A World Without You

A. S. Peterson

A World Without You

A man in his early forties is unable to sleep as he contemplates the decision of running for mayor of his small town. While considering his options, his thoughts drift to his wife and their devoted relationship. As he reflects on his good fortune, one fact becomes apparent—his relationship with his wife originated even before it began. In 1992, life is anything but predictable for fifteen-year-old Scott Furman as he comes of age in his Midwestern small lower-class town of South Hillside. An...

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A. S. Peterson

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