Center for Literary and Art Studies (1995). Independent boutique publisher. Spanish and Portuguese authors. Narrative, essay, company, children, poetry, travel. Catalogs. Editions and printing. 450 titles in its catalog.
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Leila liebt Allu, Allu liebt Leila. Der Ex-Gauner hat ein Kind mit der Polizistin und es gibt gute Gründe, am Leben zu bleiben und das Gefängnis zu meiden. Aber die Idylle bekommt Risse, als Leilas Patenonkel, ein Schwindler und Säufer, auf mysteriöse Weise in die Luft fliegt. Der jungen Polizistin Leila fällt es schwer zu glauben, dass ihr geliebter Patenonkel sich in die Luft gesprengt haben soll. Sie geht der Sache nach. Zeit dazu hat sie, denn sie befindet sich im Erziehungsurlaub. Zu Hause passt Allu auf den gemeinsamen Sohn auf. Eigentlich hat er Leila versprochen, keine krummen Dinger mehr zu drehen. Aber dann erhält er einen Anruf vom Chef einer Rockerbande. Allu soll für ihn einen Koffer mit ziemlich viel Drogengeld suchen. In Drogengeschäfte scheint auch Leilas Onkel verwickelt gewesen zu sein. Denn vor seinem Wochenendhäuschen in der tiefsten finnischen Provinz wachsen neuerdings Cannabispflanzen statt Weidenröschen. Sie geraten ins Visier der finnischen Drogenmafia, die vor nichts zurückschreckt. Für Allu und Leila wird es gefährlich …
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So wie für Lawrence Durrell das alte Alexandria die Hauptstadt der Erinnerung war, ist für Elias Khoury das wiederaufgebaute Beirut die Hauptstadt der Amnesie. Yalo, der aus einer christlich-syrianischen Familie stammt, wächst in Beirut auf. Jung gerät er in eine der Milizen des Krieges. Nach dessen Ende wird er Wächter eines Waffenhändlers. In den Hügeln außerhalb Beiruts überfällt er nächtens Liebespaare, raubt und vergewaltigt – und verliebt sich in eines seiner Opfer, Shirin. Sie zeigt ihn an. Er wird festgenommen und gefoltert. Man zwingt ihn, sein Leben aufzuschreiben, immer neu, denn nie sind die Folterer zufrieden – selbst wenn er zugibt und ausmalt, was er gar nicht getan hat. So gerät Yalo außer sich. Im Schmerz trennt er sich von seinem Körper und erfindet sich im Geist. Mit jeder neuen Fassung verändert sich die Beschreibung, sie reichert sich an, sie franst aus, verschmutzt, färbt sich, oszilliert, sie nimmt ein Sprach- und Eigenleben an: Yalo – ein libanesisches Leben in Zeiten des Kriegs und Nachkriegs. Elias Khourys sprachmächtiger Roman erzeugt – mitreißend und erkenntnisstiftend zugleich – einen Taumel.
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Elias Khoury ist einer der tonangebenden Schriftsteller und Intellektuellen der arabischen Welt. Welche Geschichten, fragen seine Bücher, sind ans Licht zu holen, wenn es um die Entstehung des palästinensisch-israelischen Konflikts geht? Mit welchem Gebirge aus Leid, Schmerz und Gewalt muß es eine „Friedensordnung“ für den Nahen Osten aufnehmen? Khourys neuer Roman führt zurück in die 1940er Jahre, die Zeit vor der palästinensischen Niederlage und der Gründung des Staates Israel. Er erzählt von der Liebe zwischen dem Palästinenser Mansur und der „traumbegabten“ Libanesin Milia. Nach der Heirat ziehen die beiden nach Nazareth. Als Mansurs Bruder Amin, der gegen die jüdische Einwanderung gekämpft hat, getötet wird, muß Mansur seine Rolle übernehmen. Milia hat Angst, Angst um ihn, Angst um ihr Kind. Sie ist schwanger. Bei der Geburt am 24. Dezember 1947 stirbt sie, indem sie aus ihrem letzten Traum nicht mehr erwacht – ein Traum, der sie noch sehen läßt, wie Mansur mit dem Säugling aus dem brennenden Jaffa auf ein griechisches Schiff flieht.
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Die zehn magischen Geschichten über naseweise Elfen, abenteuerlustige Nixen und mutige Piratentöchter sind das perfekte Lesefutter für Mädchen in der ersten Klasse. Lesen lernen leicht gemacht mit: - großer Fibelschrift und - kurzen Textabschnitte Diese Hilfen garantieren schnelle Leseerfolge. Rätsel am Ende der Abenteuer regen zum Gespräch über die Geschichten an und sichern das Textverständnis. Lesen lernen mit dem Bücherbär Die kleine Elfe Tissa begegnet im Wald einem gruseligen Monster, die bezaubernde Nixe Leila erlebt ein Abenteuer in den Tiefen des Meeres und Kiki, die furchtlose Piratentochter, rettet einen ganz besonderen Hund. - Empfohlen von Westermann - Der Titel ist auf Antolin.de gelistet.
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It is a coming-of-age story for Generation Z. How to grow up or even live in a world where no steady jobs are available, you can’t pay your rent and can’t afford medical or living expenses. Moreover, it touches on how to be a socially engaged artist in such a world, and more so, a woman in a post-me too world? Dijana, a daughter of working-class immigrants, tells the story of her difficult childhood and adolescence, how should became a journalist and later a writer in a society full of prejudices, glass ceilings and obstacles. How she gradually became a stereotypical ‘success story’, even though she still struggles with writing, because she can’t afford a ‘room of her own’. Dijana is a daughter of working-class immigrants, who came to Slovenia in the eighties in search of a better future. The family is building a house but is made redundant from the local factory when Yugoslavia is in the midst of an economic crisis. When her parents get divorced, Dijana, her older sister and mother struggle with basic needs. She is ashamed of their poverty, her classmates bully her because of her immigrant status, but mostly because of her being ‘white trash’. In the local school she meets teachers with prejudices against immigrants, but is helped by a librarian who spots her talent. When Dijana goes to secondary school, she moves in with her older sister who lives in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Her sister is into rave culture and Dijana starts to explore experimenting with drugs, music and dance. At the secondary school, she is again considered ‘the weird kid’, as she isn’t enough of a foreigner for other immigrant kids because she is from the country, yet she isn’t Slovenian enough for other native kids. She falls even deeper into drug addiction, fails the first year of school and has to move back to live with her mother. She takes on odd jobs to make ends meet. Whilst working as a waitress she encounters sexism and sexual violence from customers and abuse from the boss. She finishes night school and graduates. She meets many ‘lost’ people of her generation along the way, who tell her their stories about precarious, minimum wage jobs, lack of opportunities, expensive rent, etc. Dijana writes for numerous newspapers but loses or quits her job, because she isn’t allowed to write the stories she wants or because of the bad working conditions or the blatant sexual harassment. Due to the high rent in the capital, Dijana has to move to the countryside to live with her mother. She feels lonely there, struggles with anxiety and cannot write a second book, because she is constantly under pressure to make a living. She realises that she must persevere regardless of the obstacles, she must follow her inner truth and by writing about it, try to create a community of like-minded people, a community of people who support each other – all literature/art is social.
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Dragon fruit (pitaya) is a perennial climbing cactus, native to the tropical areas of North, Central and South America. It is suited to tropical and subtropical regions and is commercially grown in an increasing number of countries, including Israel, Australia and the USA. Dragon fruit generates considerable consumer interest because of its exotic appearance and potential health benefits. The fruit is rich in nutrients and phytochemical compounds. It can be eaten fresh or used in the preparation of juices, jellies, jams, etc. The natural bioactive compounds in pitaya have the potential to be exploited in food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Increasingly cultivated worldwide, the plant is drought-resistant, easily adapts to light intensity and high temperatures, and has a tolerance to a wide range of soil salinities. With ongoing global warming, dragon fruit has great potential as a new crop for many more countries. This book is a compilation of the current state of knowledge on dragon fruit physiology, cultivation, production technology, postharvest management and processing, and is written by leading international authors.
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Leila Duly's new colouring book is a celebration of a year of flowers. Month by month, follow the progress of the seasons with intricate illustrations of flowers, birds, butterflies and other insects and small creatures to colour in, adding up to a year's worth of colouring enjoyment.
Escritas Diversas do Eu "Páginas comoventes, pungentes, ternas, jocosas, divertidas, alegres, sofridas, plenas dos mais variados afetos: o que se lerá nesse volume são os frutos doces ou amargos de uma experiência literária a que se dedicaram jovens entusiastas, estudantes de Letras, desejosos de se deixarem habitar pela linguagem, de se inclinarem ao acontecimento poético e, por isso mesmo, de oferecerem ao leitor - e a ele se des-cobrirem - vidas subjetivas que só têm razão de ser porque se locam em contato com o Outro. Fica, então, aqui, o convite ao encontro!" (Leila de Aguiar Costa)
"Possibly one of the best fictions published in recent months. Mariana Sández's prose is a beautiful and intelligent surprise, within the framework of the new narrative produced by Argentinean authors". Hinde Pomeraniec, Infobae Before she dies, Leila, a frustrated writer and book lover, leaves her daughter her personal diaries, along with curious and detailed instructions on what to do with them. By reading them, Charo will reveal a side of her mother that she did not know, trying to understand that period when Leila seemed to be swept away by a gale, more absent and more vital than ever, that time when a series of disturbing events took place in the building where they lived, and which unleashed her mother's infinite guilt.
Leïla Slimani, winner of the 2016 prix Goncourt, doesn’t like leaving home and prefers solitude to entertainment. So why agree to spend a sleepless night in the Punta della Dogona Museum in Venice? Reflecting upon the “impossibility” of a book whilst subtly digressing in the Venetian night, Leila Slimani talks about herself, about imprisonment, intimacy, identity, being caught in the middle, between East and West. A discreet, sensitive confession in which the author mentions her father who was once imprisoned. But this book – with its intensity and inner fire – is also about beauty disappearing and how urgently we must make the most of it. It is about the glory of the ephemeral. At dawn, although awake and alert, the author emerges from the building as if from a dream, and all that is left of her night is the smell of flowers.
This is the story of a bird that fits in your hand flying halfway round the world looking for a place to nest. This is the story of a young girl from northern Africa fleeing halfway round the world looking for a place of peace. This is the story of Bird. This is the story of Leila. This is the story of a chance encounter and a long journey home.
For eight centuries, southern Spain has been home to a multicultural political entity founded by the Arabs and co-created by Muslims, Jews and Christians. Medieval Cordoba, Seville and Toledo are bustling metropolises to which merchants, scientists and artists are drawn from all over the world. Here the first tracheotomy procedure is performed and astronomy is developed, here magnificent libraries are created, Greek philosophers are translated, multilingual poetry is written, and foreign policy at the Muslim court is directed by a Jewish diplomat.In a book stretched between history and modernity and between essay and reportage, the author deconstructs popular symbols of Spain (flamenco, mosaics, palm trees), revealing their Muslim-Arab roots. She shows how Andalusia today handles its heritage. Coexistence, the meeting of the so-called West with so-called Islam, the fluidity of borders, but also fundamentalisms, expulsions, exorcising others.... Al-Andalus is a palimpsest that is useful in thinking about the world today. Prizes: Nike Literary Prize 2021 - shortlist Witold Gombrowicz Prize 2021 - winner
