On the face of it, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin—two icons of the twentieth century—couldn’t be more different. One is the grand statesman whose resolve led a nation in the struggle against Nazi Germany, the other the world-famous actor and comedian behind The Great Dictator, whose owns roots were in poverty and hardship. But in this moving novel, they are bound by a dark secret: both suffer from depression. When a chance encounter reveals what they share, an unusual and unlikely friendship ensues. A series of therapeutic meetings across the world, in Germany, England, and America, sees each become the other’s confidant as they talk of their “black dog days.” With the eye of a masterfully subtle narrator, Michael Köhlmeier imagines a startling friendship of unique understanding between this extraordinary pair: a friendship of the twentieth century between art and politics, humor and seriousness, but which at heart remains an understanding between two men—the poor tramp and the grand statesman—who bring together the history of the century.

Two Gentlemen on the Beach

Köhlmeier, Michael

Literature & Fiction

Haus Publishing

Part dark fairy tale, part mystery, Yiza is the story of three homeless street children on the run. One evening, not long after her arrival in Germany, six-year-old Yiza is abandoned at the market where she spends her days. At a shelter for migrant children she meets two boys, Schamhan and Arian, and together they run away. Trekking through snowy forests and housing settlements, they evade police custody, subsisting on the margins of society and doing whatever it takes to survive. Both boys are protective of Yiza but are blind to the moral and emotional complexities of their actions. When Yiza falls ill they take shelter in a greenhouse and Arian spends his days begging for food and medicine, but before long they are discovered. When Yiza is illicitly taken into foster care and confined the novel reaches its brutal denouement as we see that Schamhan and Arian will do anything to be reunited with her. Narrated in simple language and with an innocent charm that belies its social reality, Yiza is a pertinent and timely tale of displacement and suffering.

Yiza

World Literature

<div>Though both men have become twentieth-century icons, at first glance, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin couldn't be more different. One, the grand statesman whose resolve led a nation in the struggle against Nazi Germany, the other, the comedian who famously parodied Hitler in The Great Dictator. But they shared a dark secret: both suffered from depression. This novel imagines the bonds that arose from Churchill and Chaplin's common struggle. When a chance encounter leads to a series of therapeutic meetings in Germany, England, and America, each becomes the other's confidant through talk of their "black dog days." A masterfully subtle narrator, Michael Köhlmeier imagines an unexpected friendship between this extraordinary pair spanning art and politics, humor and seriousness. At heart, The Statesman and the Tramp reveals the intimacy that can arise when two extraordinarily different men share their common struggle.</div>

The Statesman and the Tramp

Spielplatz der Helden: Roman

Genre Fiction

dtv Verlagsgesellschaft

Zwei Herren am Strand

Literary

Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co.

Carl Jacob Candoris - Mathematiker, Weltbürger, Dandy und Jazz-Fan - ist fünfundneunzig, als er seine Lebensbeichte ablegt. Aufschreiben soll sie der Schriftsteller Sebastian Lukasser, Sohn des Gitarristen Georg Lukasser, den Candoris in den Jazz-Kellern im Wien der Nachkriegsjahre kennengelernt hat. Candoris erzählt von seinem Großvater, der in Wien einen berühmten Kolonialwarenladen betrieb; von seinen seltsamen Verwandten, bei denen er in Göttingen während seines Studiums lebt und die Größen der Naturwissenschaft kennenlernt; und vom Wien der Nachkriegszeit - wo Sebastians Geschichte beginnt, die Geschichte einer Selbstfindung, die sich über die zweite Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts zieht. Im Spiegel zweier ungleicher Familien entsteht so ein kluger, reicher, witziger und lebenssatter Generationenroman über unsere Zeit.

Abendland

Hanser, Carl GmbH + Co.

Contemporary

Das Mädchen mit dem Fingerhut

Die Märchen: Illustriert von Nikolaus Heidelbach

Die Musterschüler. Roman.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Piper

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