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Wer, wenn nicht wir ? – Alicia Zett
CHF23.90Wenn du nicht weißt, wer du bist – woher sollst du wissen, wem dein Herz gehört?
Bewegender New-Adult-Liebesroman um Selbstfindung und queere Liebe
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Die Pontonbrücke – Suzana Tratnik
CHF19.90Die ewige Studentin Jana lebt in den 90er Jahren in Ljubljana in Slowenien, eine Zeit des politischen Wandels. Sie hat Panikattacken. Nach einer schwierigen Trennung muss Jana sich ihren Dämonen stellen … Das Land ist kurze Zeit zuvor unabhängig geworden, zugleich verstärken sich Hassreden gegen Minderheiten. Jana und ihre Clique leben am Rand der Gesellschaft, auch wegen ihrer sexuellen Orientierung. Ein Buch mit lebendigen und freien Beschreibungen einer wilden Zeit. Es geht um LGBT-Gemeinschaften, die junge Queer-Szene und um Drogen, Affären, Sex und Rave-Partys im Überfluss, ein Clubleben, das von Aktivismus und Rebellion geprägt war.
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The Song Of Achilles – Madeline Miller
CHF17.00The god touches his finger to the arrow’s fletching. Then he breathes, a puff of air – as if to send dandelions flying, to push toy boats over water. And the arrow flies, straight and silent, in a curving, downward arc towards Achilles’ back. Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, the boys develop a tender friendship, a bond which blossoms into something deeper as they grow into young men. But when Helen of Sparta is kidnapped, Achilles is dispatched to distant Troy to fulfil his destiny. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.
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Blue Sisters – Coco Mellors
CHF17.00The Blue sisters have always been exceptional – and exceptionally different.
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Mongrel – Hanako Footman
CHF15.90Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, suppressing not only her heritage but her growing desire for her best friend Fran. Yuki leaves the Japanese countryside to pursue her dream of becoming a concert violinist in London. Far from home and in an unfamiliar city, she finds herself caught up in the charms of her older teacher. Haruka attempts to navigate Tokyo’s nightlife and all of its many vices, working as a hostess in the city’s sex district. She grieves a mother who hid so many secrets from her, until finally one of those secrets comes to light . . . Shifting between three intertwining narratives, Mongrel reveals a tangled web of desire, isolation, belonging and ultimately, hope.
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The Death of Vivek Oji – Akwaeke Emezi
CHF17.00»This is a gorgeously written story of identity, sexuality, love, grief, friendship, and the need to live the life you want, even in a country where doing so might be deadly . . . This was emotional, beautiful, and so poignant, and their storytelling took my breath away. »
»The way Emezi made me care so deeply about these characters was just incredible, so that when the whole truth of Vivek »s death was revealed I felt so personally affected by it. This book is about so many things all at once . . . The writing is so simple yet beautifully emotive. And I cried. »
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Little Rot – Akwaeke Emezi
CHF17.00Akwaeke Emezi »s exhilarating new novel follows five people over the course of a weekend which will brutally upend all of their lives.
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Martyr! – Kaveh Akbar
CHF17.00Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.
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The Gentleman From Peru – André Aciman
CHF15.90We spend more time than we know trying to go back. We call it fantasising, we call it dreaming. . . but we »re all crawling back, each in his or her own way.
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