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Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred …
Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred …
A mission to Mars.
A freak accident.
One man's struggle to survive.
Six days ago, astronaut Mark …
Jazz Bashara is a criminal.
Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and …
I really did enjoy this read!
A quest, a literary thriller and a love story, What We Can Know spans the …
Instead of putting an apocalyptic wasteland into the foreground of this near future novel, Ian McEwan has created a narrative grounded in human relationships and philosophical inquiry, allowing its dystopian elements to hum softly in the background. It is exactly this, what makes the story so haunting. The characters of the book go about their lives, debates, and personal dramas, treating their changing reality as merely "the way things are." Overall, an intelligent a reminder of how easily humanity can drift into compromise when distracted by the immediate present while we are looking the other way.
A quest, a literary thriller and a love story, What We Can Know spans the past, present and future to …
Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved …
2nd read. This time in English and in the wonderful illustrated Folio Society edition...
The Sound of Waves (潮騒, Shiosai) is a 1954 novel by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima. It is a coming-of-age …
Butter ist die Geschichte einer jungen Frau, die über den Sinneseindruck des Geschmacks zu sich selbst findet. Dabei steht die Butter aus dem Titel des Romans als Symbol für Lebensfreude und Selbstliebe. Ein Entwicklungsroman aus dem modernen und doch so konservativ patriarchalisch geprägten Japan. Die Protagonistin zeigt eindrucksvoll, dass echte Selbstbestimmung erst dort beginnt, wo Frauen aufhören, sich für die Erwartungen anderer einzuschränken – sowohl geistig als auch körperlich.
The Sound of Waves (潮騒, Shiosai) is a 1954 novel by the Japanese author Yukio …
Sehr schöne Adaption des klassischen Themas von Daphnis und Cloe in die Welt des ländlichen Nachkriegsjapans.
The Moon will soon return.
Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two …
