Inhalt: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an intense, thrilling novel about a near fatal accident and its devastating consequences.
On a winter night, Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near-fatal accident. His sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to look after him. But when he finally awakes from his coma, Mark believes that Karin - who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister - is really an identical impostor.
Shattered by her brother's behaviour, Karin contacts neuroscientist Dr Gerald Weber. But what Weber discovers in Mark begins to undermine even his own sense of self. Meanwhile, Mark, armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness, attempts to learn what really happened. The truth of that evening will change the lives of all three beyond recognition.
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Umfang: 451 S. Standort: Engl. Pow ISBN: 978-0-312-42643-9
Inhalt: Discover the delightfully heartwarming and life-affirming bestseller about one man's unlikely journey through love, perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
'I couldn't put this book down. It's one of the most quirky and endearing romances I've ever read. I laughed the whole way through' SOPHIE KINSELLA Umfang: 329 S. Standort: Engl. Sim ISBN: 978-1-4059-1533-5
Inhalt: Deutsche Besprechung: Zwei Soldaten ohne heldenhafte Taten und Auszeichnungen verschlafen das Ende des Krieges, was sie zu Verbündeten und Freunden macht. In ihrer Stammkneipe versuchen sie nun, den Herausforderungen des Lebens zu entfliehen. Besprechung: Oberflächlich betrachtet wird in dieser Erzählung das Leben von Archie und Samand beschrieben, 2 Freunden, die es im Krieg zu nichts gebracht haben und die auch in ihrem weiteren Leben wenig erreichen. Beide heiraten wesentlich jüngere Frauen, geraten bei der Kindererziehung und den Auseinandersetzungen mit der Jugend an ihre Grenzen und verbringen ihre Abende am liebsten in der Stammkneipe. Die Kinder wiederum pflegen eine ebenso innige Freundschaft zueinander, entwickeln sich aber im Laufe der Geschichte auseinander und finden erst durch eine 3. Familie wieder zusammen. Schaut der Leser aber genauer hin, stellt er fest, dass hier vielmehr politische und religiöse Ansichten, Hautfarbe, Herkunft und Kultur thematisiert werden und die Suche nach einer Identität und nach familiären Wurzeln das zentrale Motiv sind. Dieser dichte Roman ist verschlungen erzählt und erinnert an die Werke von John Irving, die aus einer Geschichte in der Geschichte bestehen. Absurd und ernsthaft zugleich, ist "Zähne zeigen" unterhaltsam zu lesen und ein Lesefutter der besonderen Art. (Nicole Gehlert-Filbrandt) Amazon.uk-Besprechung: Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is an ambitious novel. Genetics, eugenics, gender, race, class and history are the book's themes but Zadie Smith is gifted with the wit and inventiveness to make these weighty ideas seem effortlessly light. The story travels through Jamaica, Turkey, Bangladesh and India but ends up in a scrubby North London borough, home of the book's two unlikely heroes: prevaricating Archie Jones and intemperate Samad Iqbal. They met in the Second World War, as part of a "Buggered Battalion" and have been best friends ever since. Archie marries beautiful, buck-toothed Clara, who's on the run from her Jehovah's Witness mother, and they have a daughter, Irie. Samad marries stroppy Alsana and they have twin sons: "Children with first and last names on a direct collision course. Names that secrete within them mass exodus, cramped boats and planes, cold arrivals, medical checks." Big questions demand boldly drawn characters. Zadie Smith's aren't heroic, just real: warm, funny, misguided and entirely familiar; reading their conversations is like eavesdropping. A simple scene, Alsana and Clara chatting about their pregnancies in the park: "A woman has to have the private things--a husband needn't be involved in body business, in a lady's ... parts." Samad's rant about his sons--"They have both lost their way. Strayed so far from what I had intended for them. No doubt they will both marry white women called Sheila and put me in an early grave--acutely displays "the immigrant fears--dissolution, disappearance" but it also gets to the very heart of Samad. White Teeth is a joy to read. It teems with life and exuberence and has enough cleverness and irreverent seriousness to give it bite. --Eithne Farry
Englische Ausg. Umfang: 541 S. Standort: Engl. Smi ISBN: 978-0-14-029778-2
Inhalt: The highly evocative stories in this treasury of tales have become part of our heritage and culture and are an essential part of every child's imaginative upbringing. (Verlagstext) Umfang: 286 S. : Ill. Standort: Engl. Gri
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