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  AnnaIn in den Katakomben

  Inanna, oder AnnaIn, Göttin der Liebe, der Fruchtbarkeit, des Mondes, aber auch des Krieges, herrscht über das sumerische Uruk - ein mythischer, lichter Ort, wo Fahrstühle auch nach links und rechts fahren und Gärten vom Himmel hängen, ein Ort, der eher in der nahen Zukunft als in einer fernen Vergangen- heit zu liegen scheint. AnnaIn ist schön, jung, verführerisch, aber auch ungestüm, unstet und machtbewusst. Eines Tages ruft ihre Zwillings- schwester, die Herrscherin der Unterwelt, sie zu sich. Und AnnaIn steigt hinab, in die Kata- komben, ins dunkle Reich des Todes. Niemand ist je von dort zurückgekehrt. Welches Opfer wird AnnaIn bringen müssen, um wieder hinaufzusteigen, zu den Lebenden? Olga Tokarczuk erzählt in Frau Dies seits und Frau Jenseits einen 4000 Jahre alten Mythos auf einzigartige Weise neu. Mit viel Ironie und einer großen Portion Respektlosigkeit verbindet sie das Hohe und Erhabene mit dem Profanen, Allgemeinmenschlichen - und holt den altehrwürdigen Mythos so in unsere Gegenwart.

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  Anna In (eBook, ePUB)

  Inanna, oder AnnaIn, Göttin der Liebe, der Fruchtbarkeit, des Mondes, aber auch des Krieges, herrscht über das sumerische Uruk - ein mythischer, lichter Ort, wo Fahrstühle auch nach links und rechts fahren und Gärten vom Himmel hängen, ein Ort, der eher in der nahen Zukunft als in einer fernen Vergangen- heit zu liegen scheint. AnnaIn ist schön, jung, verführerisch, aber auch ungestüm, unstet und machtbewusst. Eines Tages ruft ihre Zwillings- schwester, die Herrscherin der Unterwelt, sie zu sich. Und AnnaIn steigt hinab, in die Kata- komben, ins dunkle Reich des Todes. Niemand ist je von dort zurückgekehrt. Welches Opfer wird AnnaIn bringen müssen, um wieder hinaufzusteigen, zu den Lebenden? Olga Tokarczuk erzählt in Frau Dies seits und Frau Jenseits einen 4000 Jahre alten Mythos auf einzigartige Weise neu. Mit viel Ironie und einer großen Portion Respektlosigkeit verbindet sie das Hohe und Erhabene mit dem Profanen, Allgemeinmenschlichen - und holt den altehrwürdigen Mythos so in unsere Gegenwart.

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  Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

  Ein Dorf an der polnisch-tschechischen Grenze. Im Sommer tummeln sich hier wohlhabende Warschauer. In den Wintermonaten fliehen die meisten Einwohner das windumtoste Hochplateau im Glatzer Kessel. Die alleinstehende Englischlehrerin Janina Deszeijko widmet sich in den langen dunklen Tagen ihren astrologischen Studien und der Übersetzung von Gedichten des verehrten Willam Blake. Man hält die alte Dame für verschroben, wenn nicht gar für verrückt, auch weil sie die Gesellschaft von Tieren der von Menschen vorzieht. Dann gibt es einen Toten. Janinas ungeliebter Nachbar Big Foot ist grausam erstickt, in seiner Kehle steckt der Knochen eines Tiers. Und es bleibt nicht bei dieser einen Leiche. Janina hat einen starken Verdacht und ermittelt auf eigene Faust. Aber ist sie wirklich auf der richtigen Spur?Komödie, Fabel, Thriller, politischer Essay, literarisches Spiel - dieser Roman passt in keine Schublade. Auf ebenso komische, wie erschütternde Weise zeigt Tokarczuk gemeinsam mit ihrer hinreißend-schrulligen Heldin, wie sehr es unserer Gesellschaft an Empathie und Respekt mangelt, ob unsere Mitmenschen oder der Natur gegenüber, und erzählt zugleich eine rasante Kriminalgeschichte reich an skurrilem Witz.

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  Zeitzuflucht (eBook, ePUB)

  In Georgi Gospodinovs Roman trifft der Erzähler auf Gaustine, einen Flaneur, der durch die Zeit reist. Er liest alte Nachrichten, trägt Vintage-Kleider und erforscht die verschlungenen Pfade des 20. Jahrhunderts. In Zürich eröffnet Gaustine eine »Klinik für die Vergangenheit«, eine Einrichtung, die Alzheimer-Kranken eine inspirierende Behandlung anbietet: Jedes Stockwerk ist einem bestimmten Jahrzehnt nachempfunden. Patienten können dort Trost finden in ihren verblassenden Erinnerungen. Aber auf einmal interessieren sich auch immer mehr gesunde Menschen dafür, in die Klinik aufgenommen zu werden, in der Hoffnung, den Schrecken der Gegenwart zu entkommen. Schließlich sind es sogar ganze Länder, die Gaustines Idee von den Vergangenheitsräumen folgen werden, und in frühere Jahrzehnte ihrer Blütezeit zurückkehren wollen ...Ein glänzender, politischer Roman, durchzogen von dunklem Witz, der uns eine neue Art eröffnet, Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft zusammenzudenken. »Große, große Literatur.« Sandra Kegel in 3sat, Buchzeit. »Sein beseeltestes und umwerfendstes Buch.« Dave Eggers. »Einer der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller Europas. Jedes Buch ist ein Ereignis.« Garth Greenwell. »Der Roman steht in einem besonderen Regal in meiner Bibliothek, das ich für Bücher reserviere, die ich immer wieder lesen muss.« Nobelpreisträgerin Olga Tokarczuk.

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  Flights

  Flights, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk's most ambitious to date. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. From the seventeenth century, we have the story of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg. From the eighteenth century, we have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuffed and put on display after his death. In the nineteenth century, we follow Chopin's heart as it makes the covert journey from Paris to Warsaw. In the present we have the trials of a wife accompanying her much older husband as he teaches a course on a cruise ship in the Greek islands, and the harrowing story of a young husband whose wife and child mysteriously vanish on a holiday on a Croatian island. With her signature grace and insight, Olga Tokarczuk guides the reader beyond the surface layer of modernity and towards the core of the very nature of humankind.

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  The Books of Jacob (eBook, ePUB)

  The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas-and a new unrest-begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic and revered as the Messiah, and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian alike, with scandalous rumors of his sect's secret rituals and the spread of his increasingly iconoclastic beliefs. The story of Frank-a real historical figure around whom mystery and controversy swirl to this day-is the perfect canvas for the genius and unparalleled reach of Olga Tokarczuk. Narrated through the perspectives of his contemporaries-those who revere him, those who revile him, the friend who betrays him, the lone woman who sees him for what he is-The Books of Jacob captures a world on the cusp of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence.

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  The House with the Stained-Glass Window (eBook, ePUB)

  "Zanna Sloniowska writes beautifully; with empathy, sensitivity, and with real political impact . . . an important new voice in Polish literature" OLGA TOKARCZUK, Nobel Prize-winning author of Flights"Remarkable, a gripping, Lvivian evocation of a city and a family across a long and painful century . . . A novel of life and survival across the ages" PHILIPPE SANDS, author of East West StreetAmid the turbulence of 20th century Lviv, meet four generations of women from the same fractious family, living beneath one roof and each striving to find their way across the decades of upheaval in an ever-shifting city. First there is Great-Granma, tiny and terrifying, shaped by a life of exile, hardship and doomed love, now fighting to keep her iron grip on the lives of her daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter. Then there is Aba, arthritic but devoted; cowed and despised by her mother, her one chance of happiness thwarted and her hopes of studying painting crushed. Thirdly, Marianna, the brilliant opera star: bold, beautiful and a fearless crusader for Ukrainian independence, who is shot during a demonstration and whose life and martyrdom casts a shadow upon the young life of the fourth and final woman, her daughter.More important even than these four women though is the character of the city of Lviv (or Lwów, or Lvov, depending on the point in history). A city of markets and monuments, streets and spires, where history and the present collide, civilisations clash and stories rise up on every corner. Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

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  The Absolute (eBook, ePUB)

  Winner.... Premio Municipal de la Novela 2021 Premio Nacional de Literatura Argentina 2018 Premio Literario de la Academia Argentina de Letras 2017 Best Novel Award by La Nación 2016 A provocative multigenerational exploration of creative genius, madness, and family relationships. With the ambition and density of style of Vladimir Nabokov or Olga Tokarczuk, this is a story both profound and handled with a light touch. The Absolute is a sprawling historical novel about the Deliuskin-Scriabin family, made up of six generations of geniuses and madmen. Beginning in the mid-18th century in Russia, across Europe and ending in late 20th-century Argentina, the characters' lives play out in different branches of art, politics and science in such radical ways that they transform the world and its reality. The narrator's ancestor, Frantisek Deliuskin, invents a new form of music in the 18th century; his son, Andrei Deliuskin, makes some marginal annotations to the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola that are later interpreted by Lenin as an instruction manual to carry out the Russian Revolution of 1917; Esau Deliuskin, following the course of his father, creates a socialist utopian society; and down through the generations to the narrator, whose creation takes him back in time and space to the moment of the Big Bang. The Absolute is a monumental work about the creation of art and about family, about spiritual traditions and about throwing oneself into the world not to capture life but to create it, in and through words. "This is a masterpiece at a time when masterpieces seem impossible and at the same time challenges the very idea of a masterpiece. … It's the novel one should read if they want to know what an artist is." -La Nación

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  The Absolute

  Winner.... Premio Municipal de la Novela 2021 Premio Nacional de Literatura Argentina 2018 Premio Literario de la Academia Argentina de Letras 2017 Best Novel Award by La Nación 2016 A provocative multigenerational exploration of creative genius, madness, and family relationships. With the ambition and density of style of Vladimir Nabokov or Olga Tokarczuk, this is a story both profound and handled with a light touch. The Absolute is a sprawling historical novel about the Deliuskin-Scriabin family, made up of six generations of geniuses and madmen. Beginning in the mid-18th century in Russia, across Europe and ending in late 20th-century Argentina, the characters' lives play out in different branches of art, politics and science in such radical ways that they transform the world and its reality. The narrator's ancestor, Frantisek Deliuskin, invents a new form of music in the 18th century; his son, Andrei Deliuskin, makes some marginal annotations to the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola that are later interpreted by Lenin as an instruction manual to carry out the Russian Revolution of 1917; Esau Deliuskin, following the course of his father, creates a socialist utopian society; and down through the generations to the narrator, whose creation takes him back in time and space to the moment of the Big Bang. The Absolute is a monumental work about the creation of art and about family, about spiritual traditions and about throwing oneself into the world not to capture life but to create it, in and through words. "This is a masterpiece at a time when masterpieces seem impossible and at the same time challenges the very idea of a masterpiece. … It's the novel one should read if they want to know what an artist is." -La Nación

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  Time Shelter

  'Georgi Gospodinov is unique in many ways. I've been reading him since the beginning of his career and I know that no one can combine an intriguing concept, wonderful imagination and perfect writing technique like he can' Olga Tokarczuk, author of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 'A powerful and brilliant novel: clear-sighted, foreboding, enigmatic. A novel in which the future gives way like a rotten beam and the past rushes in like a flood' Sandro Veronesi, author of The Hummingbird and twice winner of the Premio Strega In Time Shelter, an unnamed narrator meets Gaustine, a 'flâneur through time,' who has uncoupled his life from his contemporary reality, reading old news, wearing old clothes, haunting the lost avenues of the twentieth century. Gaustine is the mind behind the first 'clinic for the past,' an institution based in Zurich that offers an inspired treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a past decade in minute detail, allowing patients to transport themselves back in time and find comfort in their fading memories. Yet an increasing number of healthy people are interested in seeking out the clinic as a form of 'time shelter,' hoping to escape from the horrors of our present, a development that results in an unexpected conundrum, when the past beings to invade the present. Georgi Gospodinov is one of Europe's most acclaimed writers. Originally from Bulgaria, his novels have won his country's most prestigious literary prize twice and have been shortlisted for more than a dozen international prizes - including the 2015 PEN Literary Award for Translation, the Premio Gregor von Rezzori, the Premio Strega Europeo, the Bruecke Berlin Preis, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Literaturpreis. He has won the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, the 2019 Angelus Literature Central Europe Prize and the 2021 Premio Strega Europeo, among others.

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