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Books I read in 2022 - number 2:

Ken Bugul is a Senegalese novelist, whose book Riwan fascinated and challanged me. She describes the polygamous environment of a village in Senegal and the way the polygamous system is seen from the female perspective. The book kept me very busy and did not let me go.

#KenBugul #senegal #polygamous #serigne #kalif #women #femalewriter #empfehlung #bücher #books #literature #africa #postkolonial #postcolonial #novel #roman #sandweg

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he by John Conolly

An extraordinary reimagining of the life of one of the greatest screen comedians the world has ever known: a man who knew both adoration and humiliation; who loved, and was loved in turn; who betrayed, and was betrayed; who never sought to cause pain to others, yet left a trail of affairs and broken marriages in his wake . . .

And whose life was ultimately defined by one relationship of such tenderness and devotion that only death could sever it: his partnership with the man he knew as Babe.

he is Stan Laurel.
But he did not really exist. Stan Laurel was a fiction.

With he, John Connolly recreates the golden age of Hollywood for an intensely compassionate study of the tension between commercial demands and artistic integrity, the human frailties behind even the greatest of artists, and one of the most enduring and beloved partnerships in cinema history: Laurel &Hardy.

#StanLaurel #comedian #biography #book #novel #JohnConolly

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An extraordinary reimagining of the life of one of the greatest screen comedians the world has ever known: a man who knew both adoration ...

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Lauren #Oyler’s ‘Fake Accounts’ Captures the Relentlessness of #Online #Life

source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/books/review-fake-accounts-lauren-oyler.html

This #novel hinges on a disturbing discovery. The narrator, a #blogger for a feminist #website, has been dating the saintly, slightly inscrutable Felix. She pokes around on his phone one night while he’s sleeping and discovers his secret life on the #internet as a hugely popular #conspiracy theorist.

#book #news #fake #propaganda #feminism #media

Lauren Oyler’s ‘Fake Accounts’ Captures the Relentlessness of Online Life

Oyler’s debut novel is about a smart, irascible narrator who is steeped in the concerns and tone of social media.

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Baz

Books that I read in 2021 - number 28:

This novel is a little exhausting to read, yet worth persevering through: White Shroud is the title in English. The story of Antanas Garsva, a Lithuanian in exile in New York, is interlaced. He works as an elevator boy in a hotel and while working he remembers his life. Unchronological, challenging in form and content, lyrical and always with exciting scenes, existential questions are raised more than answered.

#AntanasSkema #lithuania #novel #litauen #liftboy #newyork #exile #madness #bücher #exilschriftsteller #literature #surrealism #books #empfehlung #lesen

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Books that I read in 2021 - number 24:

Aufbrechen (setting off) is the German title of this novel by Tsitsi Dangarembga, the original title is Nervous Conditions. A really important book about a girl in a village in Zimbabwe who tries to break away from her family. I loved all the details of the story and how family life is shown as something so fluid and complex. Gave me a new perspective and erased many clichés in my head. It's so good to hear a female, black voice.

#TsitsiDangarembga #zimbabwe #africa #femalewriter #roman #bücher #afrika #novel #books #filmmaker #autorin #regisseurin #mädchen #aufbrechen

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Books that I read in 2021 - number 23:

Every now and then I like to read something by Balzac. I found this book in a second-hand bookshop. It is the GDR edition with an old translation. It was not easy for me to follow the complicated story, but I enjoyed the interesting constellation of characters and Balzac's tone, which is always a bit mocking. The English titel of this book is "A Murky Business" and it is part of his giant multi-volume collection of novels "La Comédie Humaine".

#HonoredeBalzac #balzac #france #novel #lacomediehumaine #restoration #bücher #empfehlung #geschichte #frankreich #aristrokratie #napoleon #conspiracy #author #autor #literature

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Books that I read in 2021 - number 22:

I had quite enjoyed reading the book “Days Without End” by Sebastian Barry and therefore immediately bought the following book. Unfortunately, I didn’t like this one as much. „A Thousand Moons" is the title and it continues the story of the Native American girl from the first part. What remains is a feeling of how well the author can deconstruct the founding myth of the USA without that being the main focus. The story itself, on the other hand, is really not that well told.

#SebastianBarry #lakota #USA #americancivilwar #books #bücher #nativeamericanculture #western #irish #tennessee #19thcentury #sioux #indigenous #literature #novel #roman #series #identität #revenge #lgbt #queer #history

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Elke Steiner

There are still free places in my Weekend Comics Workshop on the novel "Der Schimmelreiter" by Theodor Storm at union College Berlin Steglitz-Zehlendorf. Date: September 9. and 10th. Join us!
https://www.vhsit.berlin.de/VHSKURSE/BusinessPages/CourseDetail.aspx?id=459336

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