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The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped in northern Syria, and nearly ten since that day in August 2014 when she would learn that he had been murdered by ISIS in a public beheading t...

«Ein ganz großartiges Buch: frei, grausam, wild, schön, ernst.»Elke HeidenreichZoli ist eine junge, starke und außergewöhnliche Frau vom Volk der Roma. Sie stammt aus Bratislava und hat in den Wäldern der Umgebung den Vernichtungsfeldzug der Deutschen gegen ihre Leute überlebt. Als sie Jahre später die traditionellen Gesänge ihres Volkes veröffentlichen will, wird sie vom sozialistischen Regime unter Druck gesetzt. Auch die Sippe und ihr Gelie...

The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped in northern Syria, and nearly ten since that day in August 2014 when she would learn that he had been murdered by ISIS in a public beheading t...

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Der Spiegel-Bestseller «Apeirogon» ist der große Roman über Palästina - und Colum McCanns Meisterwerk. Rami ist Israeli, Bassam Palästinenser. Sie stehen auf unterschiedlichen Seiten der Mauer. Und doch eint sie die Trauer: Denn beide Männer haben eine Tochter im Nahost-Konflikt verloren, Töchter, die Zeichen von erfüllter Liebe waren, bevor sie starben. Jetzt kämpfen Rami und Bassam gemeinsam, für den Frieden ... Colum McCann hat einen flamm...

Novelist Colum McCann's Dancer is the erotically charged story of the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev as told through the cast of those who knew him.There is Anna Vasileva, Rudi's first ballet teacher, who rescues her protégé from the stunted life of his provincial town, Yulia, whose sexual and artistic ambitions are thwarted by her Soviet-sanctioned marriage, and Victor, the Venezuelan street hustler, who reveals the lurid underside of the gay ...

Colum McCann's last novel, Let the Great World Spin, won the National Book Award, was a New York Times bestseller and sold over a million copies worldwide. Sweeping 150 years of history and using the real-life narratives of Frederick Douglass, Alcock and Brown, and Senator George Mitchell, TRANSATLANTIC is Colum McCann's most ambitious and beautiful novel yet. TRANSATLANTIC can be compared with the work of Michael Ondaatje, E. L. Doctorow and ...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "A quite extraordinary novel. Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two men at its powerfully beating heart."-Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Independent • The New York Public Library • Library JournalFrom the National Book Award-winning and bestselling a...

Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin exist in nearby worlds - yet live worlds apart. Rami is Israeli. Bassam is Palestinian. Both men have lost their daughters. Rami's thirteen-year-old girl Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber while out shopping with her friends. Bassam's ten-year-old daughter Abir was shot and killed by the border police outside her school. She had just left the sweetshop with a candy bracelet in her pocket. The men are the best ...

An ageing nun is tracked to ground by her sister, a garrulous beautician must lay out the corpse of a loved one. These are eloquent tales of exile and displacement, of characters always in search of a way back home or of a way to leave it. Mischievous, assured and versatile, Colum McCann's collection of short stories marks him out as one of our best contemporary writers.

Colum McCann's first novel goes back to the years before the Spanish Civil War, following the adventures of a peripatetic Irish photographer from the war-strewn shores of Europe to the exotic plains of Mexico. The story is told in the words of the photographer's only son, a wanderer himself, who uses his father's unreliable memories and the fading remnants of his art to piece together his family history and explain the mystery surrounding his ...

One powerful novella, with two thematically linked short stories on either side of it, forms the basis of Everything in This Country Must. Although these are stories about Ireland and the Troubles, they have an almost mythical rather than a political feel. In the title story, four young soldiers help a farmer and his daughter free their horse from a stream in flood, unable to understand that their help will never be anything but an insult. In ...

The life of Zoli Novotna begins on the leafy backroads of Slovakia, when she and her grandfather come upon a quiet lake where their family has been drowned by Fascist guards. Zoli and her grandfather flee to join up with another clan of travelling harpists. So begins an epic tale of song, intimacy and betrayal. Based loosely on the true story of the Gypsy poet Papusza, and set against the backdrop of the Second World War, Zoli is a love stor...

This novel opens on a battlefield: trudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland, their horses dying around them, their own hunger rendering them almost savage, the Russian soldiers are exhausted as they reach the city of Ufa, desperate for food and shelter. They find both, and then music and dance. And there, spinning unafraid among them, dancing for the soldiers and anyone else who'll watch him, is one small pale boy, Rudo...

Rami Elhanan und Bassam Aramin sind zwei Männer. Rami braucht fünfzehn Minuten für die Fahrt auf die West Bank. Bassam braucht für dieselbe Strecke anderthalb Stunden. Ramis Nummernschild ist gelb, Bassams grün. Beide Männer sind Väter von Töchtern. Beide Töchter waren Zeichen erfüllter Liebe, bevor sie starben. Ramis Tochter wurde 1997 im Alter von dreizehn Jahren von einem palästinensischen Selbstmordbomber vor einem Jerusalemer Buchladen g...

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From the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the real-life friendship between two men united by loss. Colum McCann's most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon-named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides-is a tour de force concerning friendship, love, loss, and belonging. Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of conflict t...

From the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the real-life friendship between two men united by loss. Colum McCann's most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon-named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides-is a tour de force concerning friendship, love, loss, and belonging. Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of conflict t...