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Qualityland / Dunkle Ausgaben

2019 || Paperback || Marc-Uwe Kling || Ullstein Taschenbuch Verlag

Willkommen in QualityLand, in einer nicht allzu fernen Zukunft: Alles läuft rund - Arbeit, Freizeit und Beziehungen sind von Algorithmen optimiert. Trotzdem beschleicht den Maschinenverschrotter Peter Arbeitsloser immer mehr das Gefühl, dass mit seinem Leben etwas nicht stimmt. Wenn das System wirklich so perfekt ist, warum gibt es dann Drohnen, die an Flugangst leiden, oder Kampfroboter mit posttraumatischer Belastungsstörung? Warum werden die Maschinen immer menschlicher, aber die Mens...

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Green Grass, Running Water

2022 || Paperback || Thomas King || Bantam Doubleday

Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by Cherokee author Thomas King. Alberta is a university professor who would like to trade her two boyfriends for a baby but no husband; Lionel is forty and still sells televisions for a patronizing boss; Eli and his log cabin stand in the way of a profitable dam proje...

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Moon Palace

1990 || Paperback || Paul Auster || Faber & Faber

Filled with suspense, unlikely coincidences, wrenching tragedies and marvellous flights of lyricism and erudition, the novel carries the reader effortlessly along with Marco's search - for love, for his unknown father, and for the key to the elusive riddle of his origins and his fate.

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Mrs Dalloway

2021 || Paperback || Virginia Woolf || Wordsworth Editions Ltd

With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University,Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence.

Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one day, and the interior monologues of others whose lives a...

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Fingersmith

A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick – Booker Prize Shortlisted

2024 || Paperback || Sarah Waters || Little, Brown & Company

The book that inspired Park Chan-wook's astonishing film The Handmaiden. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Booker PrizeLondon 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her 'family'.

But from the moment she draws breath, Sue's fate is linked to that of another orphan growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away.

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Les petits enfants du siecle

1971 || Paperback || Christiane Rochefort || Livre de Poche

Jo de Bagnolet « est née des allocations et d’un jour férié dont la matinée s’étirait, bienheureuse ». Dix enfants vont suivre, apportant en prime à leurs parents la machine à laver, le Frigidaire, la télé, la voiture et le prix Cognac ! Josyane les élèvera tous. Ses seules distractions : les courses et ses devoirs le soir sur la table de la cuisine. Ses seuls amis, Nicolas, le petit frère qui comprend tout, et Guido, le maçon italien, né sur les collines. L’amour de Gui...

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Beloved

2007 || Paperback || Toni Morrison || Vintage Publishing

Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature. 'An American masterpiece' AS ByattIt is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to el...