| So, here it is, after a false start on Friday morning: the best SWR list, as of October 2010. In the usual manner with complete bibliographic information, links to more detailed instructions and to read sample content, and of course a reference to audiobook versions, if any. On that you may find edifying reading for rainy autumn days here! |
| Platz 1 (-) 124 points THOMAS LEHR: September. Fata MorganaTitle: September: Fata Morgana, a novel / Thomas LehrAuthor: Lehr, Thomas Publisher: München: Hanser Year: 2010 Pages / format: 477 p., 22 cm ISBN: 978-3 - 446-23557-1 Code: 505/23557 Binding / Price: PP: EUR 24.90 Tags: New York Baghdad, doctor, daughter, assassination, death; fiction book illustration watch amazon.de  Sample on amazon.de Two fathers and two daughters, two parallel stories of life in the United States and Iraq. Their locations are far away, and yet they combine two political events: Sabrina died on 11 September 2001 New York World Trade Center, while Muna 2004 in Baghdad in a bomb attack is killed. Thomas Lehr, one of Germany's "brightest and most brilliant writer" (FAZ), goes to his grandiose, multi-layered work on a literary tour border between two cultures. In a dense, lyrical language says "September" by Islam, oil, terrorism and war, and two women who are representative of the victims of this conflict. |
| location 2 (3) 65 points Hettche THOMAS: The love of fathersTitle: The love of the fathers: a novel / Thomas HettcheAuthor: Hettche, Thomas issue: 1 Ed Publisher: Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch Release Date: 19 August 2010 Pages / format: 223 p., 20 cm ISBN: 978-3-462-04187-3 EAN: 9783462041873 Binding / Price: PP: EUR 16.95 Tags: Sylt, vacation, father, and conflict; daughter, fiction, illustration Easier reading book watch amazon.de  Excerpt from publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch The touching story of a father who is fighting for his daughter. Peter has a daughter, but the custody of them he has not. Annika was two when he and her mother separated. Since then, any parental consultation gets into a power struggle for the now three-year-old Annika. A New Year's holiday on Sylt is for father and daughter to the ultimate test of their love. The trip to the island is for the publisher representative Peter also a return landscapes in the past. Here he spent the summer of his childhood when his mother worked in a bookstore in Kampen. The walks on the beach, the old church of Keitum, the lighthouse conjure up in him. For the first time he tried to tell his daughter from him. He meets Susan again, a friend from school, married and mother of two children. And he must face that he seems to heal the fathers of families who spend the holidays together, acts as a warning sign. It is the time between the years, the rough nights, where animals can talk and the gates are open to the spirit world. "The Wild Hunt" rages around the house on the dune, a winter storm. And New Year's Eve, along with friends in "Zanzibar" is suddenly Peters whole existence at stake. Breathlessly follow his voice, which tells what happens to him - at present, distanzlos immediately. This novel about the difficulties of today to his father, Thomas Hettche personal book. Masterfully, he is able to combine the atmosphere of the winter Sylt with a family drama in which it is about his own past, personal integrity and a common future. |
| 3rd place (-) 58 points PEDRO Mairal: the missing year of Juan SalvatierraTitle: The missing year of Juan Salvatierra: a novel / Pedro Mairalfrom the chip. Dagmar Ploetz Author: Mairal, Pedro; Ploetz, David [Translator] Publisher: München: Hanser Release Date: 16 August 2010 Pages / format: 139 p., 21 cm Uniform Title: Salva Tierra [dt] ISBN: 978-3-446-23559-5 order number (s): 505 / 23559 EAN: 9783446235595 Binding / Price : PP: EUR 14.90 Tags Argentina, self-taught, painting, CV; History 1935-1995; fiction book illustration watch amazon.de Sample at amazon.de begins with twenty years of silent Juan Salvatierra, record his life on giant screen roles. The dreamlike paintings form a huge, nearly four-kilometer-long work of art that finally tells sixty years of life on the border between Argentina and Uruguay. As Salvatierra dies, travels to his son Miguel, to save the art work of the Father - but lacks the big screen role in 1961. Miguel begins an adventurous search: the secret to his family. Pedro Mairal visually stunning novel explores the connection between art and life - and also offers subtle insights into Past and present of the country in South America. |
| # 4 (-) 35 points PETER WAWERZINEK: Raven loveTitle: Raven love: a novel / Peter WawerzinekAuthor: Wawerzinek, Peter issue: 1 ed Publisher: Berlin: Galiani Release Date: 19 August 2010 Pages / format: 427 p., 21 cm ISBN: 978-3-86971-020-4 EAN: 9783869710204 Binding / Price: PP: EUR 19.95 book watch amazon.de Sample the Galiani Publisher A book like an earthquake. More than fifty years, Peter Wawerzinek tormented with the question of why his mother had left him an orphan in the GDR. Then he went and took it. The result is a literary bomb, as it had to offer yet the German literature. Their absence was the black hole, devouring the negative terminal in St. Wawerzineks life. How had his mother can do to him, leave him as a toddler in the GDR, when she fled to the West? The boy passed around in different foster homes, remained silent until well into its fourth year, avoided people who prefer listening to the birds, imitating their singing to, lying on his back, and tschilpend tschirpend. The cook of the Home wanted to adopt him, her husband did not. A craftsman's family took him in, but gave it back to the home. Where was home? Where his roots? Where did he belong? The fact that he has a sister, he learned to fourteen. In the home he had no one about it, later the unpopular adoption mother. As a border guard he made an escape attempt towards mother in the West, but returned to have the other side of the border fence, back on half way. He wanted her, which had expelled him, and never reported, really again? All his life Peter fought Wawerzinek with his motherless. When he visited years after the Wall fell and with it the eight half-siblings, all lived in the same town, was over the decades has become larger than life image of the mother does not actually grown. It remained in the single encounter. But it solved - after years of release break - from a writing spurt Peter Wawerzinek in which he was the trauma wrote from the body: For years he worked like a dog on translated Rabe love , lifelong feelings of abandonment, loneliness and mother longing in a great piece of literature, which had in the German literature is not his equal. |
| # 5 (-) 33 points HERMAN CHARLES BOSMAN: Mafeking RoadTitle: Mafeking Road and Other Stories / Herman Charles BosmanFrom the South Africans. Engl Michael Kleeberg Author: Bosman, Herman Charles; Kleeberg, Michael [Translator] Publisher: Frankfurt, M. Ed. Büchergilde Release Date: 15 April 2010 Pages / format: 201 p., 19 cm Series title: World Reading Uniform Title: Mafeking Road and Other Stories [dt] Notes: license the books Gutenberg, Frankfurt, M., Vienna, Zurich ISBN: 978 - 3-940111-67-8 EAN: 9783940111678 Binding / Price: PP: EUR 19.90 Tags: South Africa ; Province book watch amazon.de excerpt from the epilogue by Michael Kleeberg by Edition Büchergilde As William Faulkner in fictional Yoknapatawpha County has spawned its own universe, created Bosman with Groot Marico, an existing town, a separate literary world, compresses the South African realities and oversubscribed. Similar Jaroslav Hasek he can with some fine to give some hearty irony the bitter absurdities of life a humorous touch. Bosman is one of the masters of the short story. His striking punch reminiscent of O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce and Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov at his precise strokes. Although he was often the attitude of a storyteller around a campfire in Veld occupies, there are modern stories which explore the act of telling his unreliable ambiguity. And Bosman is one of the few authors who involve the reader directly into the action with force. He provokes laughter and tears with apparent ease, compassion, and disgust. His work was never transferred into German. For the translation of Michael Kleeberg was won, the great stylist of the German language, with Malindi of Troy Blacklaws and The other side of silence by André Brink has transferred last two South African novels. |
| place 6-7 (-) 27 points JONATHAN FRANZEN: FreedomTitle: Freedom: a novel / Jonathan Franzenfrom the English by Betty Abarbanell and Eike Schönfeld Author: Franzen, Jonathan; Abarbanell, Bettina [Translator] issue: 1 Ed Publisher: Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Release Date: 2010 Pages / format: 730 p., 22 cm uniform title: Freedom [dt] ISBN: 978-3-498-02129-0 EAN: 9783498021290 Binding / Price: PP: EUR 24.95 Tags: USA, couple, friend, three-way relationship, conflict, fiction, illustration book watch amazon.de target="_blank" title="Hier klicke, um zur Leseprobe aus Jonathan Franzens Roman 'Freiheit' zu gelangen!"> Extract on amazon.de Patty and Walter Berglund - model parents and environmental pioneers, almost been ideal neighbors in its own renovated Victorian mansion in St. Paul - give suddenly a mystery: Your teenage son in for the plebeian Republican family next door, Walter can protect a single species one at a shady pact with the coal industry, and Patty, Exsportlerin and One-a-housewife turns out to be really strange. Walters has best friend, a rock musician to do with it? Patty lives at once their wildest dreams, she leads a life without self-deception. told in this novel about a family who is also a great epic of the last thirty years of American history, Jonathan Franzen of freedom - the lifeblood of the western cultures - and also the opposite of her, shows the tragicomic dislocations of contemporary love and marriage, friendship and sexuality. Freedom is an important book about our lives in a world becoming increasingly complex and fragile. Jonathan Franzen's novel 'Freedom' is also available as audio book available: title: Freedom [CDs] abridged reading / Jonathan Franzen. Read by Ulrich Matthes. From the American. Betty Abarbanell and Eike Schönfeld. Reading text: Katia Semprich. Director: Ralph Schäfer. RBB, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, HR2 culture person (s): Franzen, Jonathan; Matthes, Ulrich; Abarbanell, Bettina; Semprich, Katia; Schaefer, Ralph organization (s): Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg Publisher: London: The Hörverl. [Hamburg]: Precious [Sales] Release Date: 2010 scope / size 15 CDs (ca. 1165 min): mono, 12 cm, in container 13 x 13 x 4 cm uniform title Freedom [dt] ISBN 978-3-86717-616-3 (CD) 978-3-86717-669-9 (MP3 CDs) EAN 9783867176163 |
| place 6-7 (1) 27 points Martin Mosebach: What happened beforeTitle: What happened before: a novel / Martin MosebachAuthor: Mosebach, Martin Publisher: München: Hanser Release Date: 16 August 2010 Pages / format: 329; 21 cm ISBN: 978-3-446-23562-5 order number (s): 505 / 23562 EAN: 9783446235625 Binding / Price: PP: EUR 21.90 Tags: Frankfurt Moderate reading book watch amazon.de Sample on amazon.de It's a dangerous question already contains the seeds of jealousy: How was really with you, before we knew each other? The two have been recently a couple, and she asks him that question. His answer is a web of truth and fiction, lies a true palace, built of solid blocks of reality. On stage, Frankfurt staged Martin Mosebach detective with precision and masterful art of language, a wicked game of love and chance. "At the summit German storytelling walking Martin Mosebach with inimitable elegance and ease. In his novel, he tells of divergent that sometimes two pairs must occur so that a third can, while another on the retrospective joint consideration of Commedia dell 'Arte gets together. " (Felicitas von Lovenberg) |
| # 8 (-) 25 points Fritz Rudolf Fries: Everything a madness gameTitle: Are all a madness game / Fritz R. FriesAuthor: Fries, Fritz R. issue: 1 edition Publisher: London: Faber & Faber Release Date: August 2010 scope / size: about 336 pages, 213 mm x 134 mm ISBN: 978-3-86730-115-2 EAN: 9783867301152 Binding / Price : Hardcover with dust jacket: EUR 19.00 book watch amazon.de all a madness is game, handled the narrator together in a phrase that coming to an end centuries, he of a Leipzig night of bombing in December 1944 to one August day in 1999, a day of solar eclipse, accompanied. In association with a lush figure gallery occupied by classmates Teachers, soldiers, faithful and unfaithful women and men, politicians, churchmen, persons of literature and art, villains and heroes taking place between changing ideologies, exploring our strange world. Two protagonists have done it to the narrator special. A grandmother from Spain, who is in her speechlessness about the opera wars of their youth mature into an icon of grief. And Alfredo, one of her sons, a man between the fronts: Legion Condor, a double agent, who after the war with Adolf Galland settles in an adventurous submarine trip to Argentina, was arrested on his return to Europe, escapes through the mediation of the lover of his sister and all dies out. Grandiose double cycles, changing times and places to accompany the old game of looking for the lost time we must say to that? an American century, flanked by Soviet troops. |
| place 9-10 (-) 24 points Dinaw Mengestu: The melody of the airTitle: The melody of the air: a novel / Dinaw Mengestufrom the U.S.. Volker Oldenburg Author: Mengestu, Dinaw, Oldenburg, Volker [Translator] Publisher: Berlin: Ullstein Release Date: 20 August 2010 Pages / format: 319 p., 21 cm Uniform Title: How to read the air [dt] ISBN: 978-3-550-08823-0 EAN: 9783550088230 Binding / Price: PP: EUR 19.95 book watch amazon.de Sample on buch.ch order to save his marriage and finally to understand itself, Jonas runs from Illinois to Nashville, Tennessee. Thirty years earlier, did his parents, immigrants from Ethiopia, in the same direction - a belated honeymoon, after many years of separation. What they were looking at that time, in the heart of America? What they dreamed, and why they do not feel loved? What will remain of their common Time? Place to place, Jonas won the possible lives of his parents, a melody of memory, which can take him no more. in dense poetic imagery Dinaw Mengestu of man's longing for home and told to go after not lost. |
| place 9-10 (-) 24 points Alain Claude Sulzer: Wrong TimeTitle: On the wrong time: a novel / Alain Claude SulzerAuthor: Sulzer, Alain Claude issue: 1 ed Publisher: Berlin: Galiani Release Date: 22 July 2010 Pages / format: 229 p., 21 cm ISBN: 978-3-86971-019-8 EAN: 9783869710198 Binding / PP Price: EUR 18.95 keywords Switzerland; husband, coming out, suicide, history, 1952; fiction book illustration watch amazon.de Sample the Galiani Publisher Who loves the wrong time the wrong person ... With the force of a Greek tragedy tells Alain Claude Sulzer a great novel about love and betrayal and the inevitability of fate. It is the Clock on the wrist of his father, his interest suddenly for unknown reasons. Seventeen years had the photo, where the father carries little attention on the shelf stood in his room. Knew he had his producer is not the mother was reluctant about him. But now, at seventeen, awakened his curiosity. It is the image of a professional photographer, but the clock is at quarter past seven. What makes a professional photographer at such a time pictures? The narrator decides to go to get to the bottom. On the back of the portrait he finds an address in Paris - and noted with surprise that the photographer is his mysterious godfather, who has been reported since the baptism any more. initiate without the mother or the stepfather in his plans, he takes off all his money, leaving a brief suicide note and left for Paris. There he gets on the trail of the true story of his father. A history that brings the ground under his feet begin to sway. with great decency, and yet with the force of a Greek tragedy unfolding Alain Claude Sulzer in his novel, the story of a man who fails to yourself and to the prevailing circumstances, in which he lives. The story of a man who needs to recognize that the marriage with his wife, who seemed even longer than the rescue was a mistake. And that he cheat and deceive in order to live out the true love of his life. "With his narrative skillfully the near and far vision united Sulzer a masterpiece succeeded psychological narrative " mirror-online |
| Personal recommendation in October by Martin Ebel (Zurich). CHRISTOPH SIMON: walkers ZbindenTitle: walkers Zbinden: a novel / Christopher SimonAuthor: Simon, Christoph issue: 1 edition Publisher: Zurich: Bilger Verl. Year: February 2010 Pages / format: 180 p., 19 cm ISBN: 978-3-03-762005-2 Binding / Price: pb. : EUR 19.80 Tags: nursing home, a widower, memory, love, youth, fiction Representation book watch amazon.de Christoph Simons clever and delicate new novel walkers Zbinden is a gorgeous love story. On the arm of the community service Kâzim to the 87-year-old Lukas Zbinden will embark on a world tour through the old people's home. Staircase to staircase, floor by floor, it attracts the keen walkers Zbinden addition to the ways in which he has a life traced on the side of his Emily the meaning of life. Gradually we learn a gentle and witty man who believes, to trust his companion to answer the key questions of life, but in reality the quiet, heart-rending History tells of love for his deceased Emilie. "Lukas Zbinden, 87-year-old nursing home residents increases, the arm of a community service down a long staircase. Even longer, however, is his monologue, he fills the book. It is curious how such a worldly-wise chat about the people who love and walking, which the latter represents for him the true humanum. Thus, the young author Christoph Berner Simon is in a Swiss tradition that goes back to Robert Walser "Martin Ebel |
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