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Nati sotto stelle diverse, il protestante Mungo Hamilton e il cattolico James Jamieson vivono in un mondo iper-mascolinizzato, in due quartieri della Glasgow dei primi anni Novanta, dove i giovani della classe operaia si dividono secondo linee settarie e combattono battaglie territoriali per difendere la propria reputazione. Per essere considerati veri uomini, i due ragazzi dovrebbero essere nemici giurati, eppure diventano migliori amici q...

È il 1981: Glasgow, un tempo fiorente città mineraria, sta morendo sotto i colpi del thatcherismo. Agnes Bain si aspettava di più dalla vita: un tempo bellissima, è ormai una donna delusa. E quando il marito la lascia, si ritrova con i tre figli in balia di una città devastata dalla crisi economica. Mentre la donna si rifugia sempre più spesso nell'alcol, i figli sono costretti ad abbandonarla, per ...

»Stuart weiß, wovon er erzählt. Hundertprozent realistisch.« Campino Für die hypermaskuline Welt der Arbeiterviertel im Glasgow der 90er Jahre ist Mungo zu hübsch und zu sanft. Sein Bruder Hamish, gefürchteter Bandenführer, will ihn zum Mann machen und schleift ihn zu den brutalen Kämpfen zwischen Protestanten und Katholiken - nur wer hart genug ist, kann hier überleben. Dann trifft Mungo auf James und mit ihm kann er sein, wie er ist. Mi...

Reading the Old Testament doesn't need to be a difficult journey through strange and bewildering territory. How to Read the Old Testament Book by Book walks you through the Scriptures like an experienced tour guide, helping you understand each of its thirty-nine books.For each book of the Old Testament, the authors start with a quick snapshot, then expand the view to help you better understand its message and how it fits into the grand narrati...

Reading the New Testament doesn't need to be a difficult journey through strange and bewildering territory. How to Read the New Testament Book by Book walks you through the Scriptures like an experienced tour guide, helping you understand each of its twenty-seven books.For each book of the New Testament, the authors start with a quick snapshot, then expand the view to help you better understand its message and how it fits into the grand narrat...

Fair Game brings Holmes and Watson to the United States as President Theodore Roosevelt's guests at the Saint Louis World's Fair. The year is 1904, and America is at a tipping point in a national debate about the country's future as a Pacific power. The President's support for a new Asian strategy makes him a very public target, and Holmes and Watson are soon entangled in a plot (two plots, in fact) to assassinate the President. They are also ...

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A sus quince aänos, Mungo, un adolescente con una sensibilidad diferente al resto de los chicos del vecindario vive en un barrio obrero del Glasgow de la era post-Thatcher, en el seno de una familia protestante: sin padre, con una madre alcohâolica y un hermano que representa todo lo queâel odia. En un ambiente masculinizado, rodeado de paro y peleas callejeras, solo cuenta con el apoyo y el cuidado de su hermana, Jodie. Tras un altercado fami...

A heartwarming and heart-wrenching portrayal of first love and loss, Young Mungo is Douglas Stuart's follow-up novel to his debut sensation, Shuggie Bain, winner of the 2020 Booker Prize. Shuggie Bain is only the second Scottish book to win the Booker Prize and the and the sixth debut to do so.Shuggie Bain has sold more than a million copies worldwide and Grove has sold 275, 000 copies of Shuggie Bain in all formats in North America. It has be...

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Für die hypermaskuline Welt der Arbeiterviertel im Glasgow der 90er Jahre ist Mungo zu hübsch und zu sanft. Sein Bruder Hamish, gefürchteter Bandenführer, will ihn zum Mann machen und schleift ihn zu den brutalen Kämpfen zwischen Protestanten und Katholiken - nur wer hart genug ist, kann hier überleben. Dann trifft Mungo auf James und mit ihm kann er sein, wie er ist. Mit ihm lernt er ein Begehren kennen, das geächtet ist, das ihn mit Scham er...

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THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER?Prepare your hearts, for Douglas Stuart is back. After the extraordinary success of Shuggie Bain, his second novel, Young Mungo, is another beautiful and moving book, a gay Romeo and Juliet set in the brutal world of Glasgow's housing estates.' The ObserverThe extraordinary, powerful second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain, Young Mungo is both a vivid portrayal of working-class l...

Douglas Stuart gewinnt mit »Shuggie Bain« den Booker Prize 2020 »Ein Debüt, das sich wie ein Meisterwerk liest.« The Washington Post Shuggie ist anders, zart, fantasievoll und feminin, und das ausgerechnet in der Tristesse und Armut einer Arbeiterfamilie im Glasgow der 1980er-Jahre, mit einem Vater, der virile Potenz über alles stellt. Shuggies Herz gehört der Mutter, Agnes, die ihn versteht und der grauen Welt energisch ihre Schönheit en...

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