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        June 2020

        Blitzverliebt!

        Die schnellsten Liebesgeschichten der Welt

        by Clara Paul

        Manchmal geht es ganz schnell: ein Blick, ein Blitzeinschlag – man ist verliebt. Und schon beginnt: eine Liebes-Geschichte. Diese Anthologie versammelt die schönsten Sekundenstorys und Minutennovellen über die Liebe: romantische, heftige, überraschende, intensive, atemberaubende, tieftraurige und sehr, sehr lustige Lovestorys, die einem zum Lachen, Grübeln oder Seufzen bringen; manche sind nur sechs Worte lang, andere lassen sich mehr Zeit für den Blitzeinschlag der Liebe – und allem, was dann folgt ... Mit Geschichten von Margaret Atwood, Peter Bichsel, Julio Cortázar, Nora Ephron, Eduardo Galeano, Elke Heidenreich, A. L. Kennedy, Yasunari Kawabata, Haruki Murakami, Joyce Carol Oates, Dorothy Parker, Roger Willemsen und vielen, vielen anderen.

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        March 2019

        Eine kleine Bosheit zwischendurch

        Böse, böse Geschichten

        by Clara Paul

        »Edel sei der Mensch, hilfreich und gut.« Ja, klar, wer möchte das nicht sein? Aber leider, leider ist das Leben kein Wunschkonzert und die Welt kein Ponyhof, und solange man sich mit eher unerfreulichen Zeitgenossen herumschlagen muss, ist eine kleine Bosheit zwischendurch doch sehr erfrischend. Denn ein wenig Schadenfreude hier und ein diebischer Spaß dort heben einfach ganz ungemein die Laune. Wie man sich der Anmaßungen seiner lieben Mitmenschen erwehrt und dabei seinen Humor und die Oberhand behält – davon erzählen in diesen lustigen, durchtriebenen, bissigen, garstigen, amüsanten, frechen, tolldreisten Geschichten zum Kichern: David Albahari, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Thomas Bernhard, Julio Cortázar, Rachel Cusk, Roald Dahl, László Darvasi, Elke Heidenreich, Franz Kafka, Luigi Malerba, Dorothy Parker, Wolfdietrich Schnurre, Clemens J. Setz, Oscar Wilde u.v.a.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        August 2016

        EcoGothic

        by Elisabeth Bronfen, William Hughes, Andrew Smith, Steven Bruhm, Ken Gelder, Jerrold Hogle, Avril Horner, William Hughes

        This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home, constructions of 'nature', and images of the post-apocalypse - images which are also central to a certain type of Gothic literature. By exploring the relationship between the ecocritical aspects of the Gothic and the Gothic elements of the ecocritical, this book provides a new way of looking at both the Gothic and ecocriticism. Writers discussed include Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, Dan Simmons and Rana Dasgupta. The volume thus explores writing and film across various national contexts including Britain, America and Canada, as well as giving due consideration to how such issues might be discussed within a global context.

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        May 2015

        Überraschung!

        Die besten Sekundenstorys

        by Clara Paul

        Manche Geschichten bedürfen nicht vieler Worte. Manchmal reichen ein, zwei Zeilen, um das Glück oder das Drama eines ganzen Lebens zu umreißen: »Die erste Liebe: eine Javanerin – seitdem liest er noch heute die javanischen Zuckerkurse.« (Kurt Tucholsky) Diese Anthologie versammelt die besten Sekundenstorys und Minutennovellen der Welt: verblüffende, atemberaubende, rasante, tieftraurige und knallkomische Geschichten. Mitunter nur sechs Worte lang, nie länger als eine Seite. Ob Lovestory, Gruselgeschichte oder Thriller, ob Momentaufnahme oder Lebensbilanz, eines haben all diese Geschichten gemeinsam: Sie sind kurz, intensiv, überraschend – und man bekommt sie nicht mehr aus dem Kopf. Mit Geschichten von Friedrich Ani, Margaret Atwood, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Bichsel, Bertolt Brecht, Julio Cortázar, Robert Gernhardt, A. L. Kennedy, Sarah Kirsch, Alexander Kluge, Joe R. Lansdale, Dorothy Parker, Monica Sabolo, Clemens J. Setz, Uwe Timm, Kurt Tucholsky, F. K. Waechter und vielen, vielen anderen.

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        August 2022

        Frauen 70+ Cool. Rebellisch. Weise.

        Von Nancy Pelosi über Helen Mirren bis Élisabeth Badinter. Mit einem Vorwort von Iris Berben | Mit zahlreichen Fotografien

        by Rita Kohlmaier, Iris Berben

        »70 and female is the new cool«, schrieb jüngst die New York Times über diese großartige Generation der Frauen 70+. Frauen, die sich mit Energie und Kraft Gehör verschaffen und durch ihre Haltung inspirieren: Sie sind längst in der zweiten Lebenshälfte angekommen – und aufrecht, ehrgeizig, willensstark. Sie sind entschieden in ihrer Haltung wie die Richterin Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sie sind Kämpferinnen wie Erika Pluhar und Tina Turner, und für sie alle ist »unbequem« zu sein ein Kompliment. Viele der Frauen sind Kult, sie sind Wegbereiterinnen und immer Vorbilder. Frauen, die wissen, wer sie sind, was sie geleistet haben und morgen noch bewegen können. Frauen, die cool, rebellisch und klug oder manchmal auch »schräg« sind, die ihren eigenen Kopf haben. Sie alle sind Frauen, die uns viel zu sagen haben. Mit Juliette Gréco, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Jane Fonda, Charlotte Knobloch, Letizia Battaglia, Erika Pluhar, Herlinde Koelbl, Margaret Atwood, Tina Turner, Vivienne Westwood, Nancy Pelosi, Annie Ernaux, Élisabeth Badinter, Elfie Semotan, Alice Nkom, Marina Abramović, Helen Mirren, Carla Del Ponte, Shirin Ebadi, Marianne Birthler.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2017

        Gothic forms of feminine fictions

        by Susanne Becker

      • July 2010

        Between Truth and Fiction

        A Narrative Reader in Literature and Theology

        by David Jasper, Allen Smith

        Providing students with an array of original texts spanning from the Bible into the present, Between Truth and Fiction guides the reader through exercises in interpretation and reflection. With each reading chosen to introduce different forms of theological thinking, this volume raises questions about how we read—and how that affects theological thinking and practice. Intentionally blurring the hard distinctions between "truth" and "fiction," the book is divided into genres (with often-surprising examples within): literary theology; fiction; autobiography; lyrics, poetry, and songs; drama; essays and aphorisms; sermons; postcolonial literature; feminist literature; and the postmodern text.Includes excerpts from the works of Augustine of Hippo, Anselm of Canterbury, Karl Barth, Dostoevsky, Ian McEwan, Julian of Norwich, C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, William Shakespeare, Meister Eckhart, Graham Greene, Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Edwards, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Thornton Wilder, Martin Luther King Jr., Salman Rushdie, Virginia Woolf, and Dave Eggers, among others.

      • Fiction
        November 2018

        30 Ways to Doff your Hat

        by Elvira Lindo

        30 Ways to Doff Your Hat is a selection of thirty literary pieces in which Elvira Lindo portrays female artists, painters, writers, actresses, and photographers who pursue their work at the margins of the conventional male canon that looms over society, and who have managed to make their mark doing so. Elvira Lindo, one of the most distinguished figures on the contemporary Spanish scene, retraces her path in life and in art, incorporating her own self-portrait into this pantheon of female artists. The author’s voice is the guiding thread that runs through each of these essays: through her experience, through her gaze, Elvira Lindo invites the reader to analyze the era and the accomplishments of these pioneering women whose brilliance, tenacity, and free spirit led them to blaze new trails for future generations. Throughout history, many women have felt obliged to doff their hat before rules imposed by a society that has isolated them from the male-dominated intellectual community. In this narrative mosaic, Elvira Lindo’s astonishing prose reveals her boundless empathy, erudition, and eclectic and inquisitive spirit. Portrayed artists: Astrid Lindgren, Anna Frank, Concepción Josefa Pantaleona, María Guerrero, Elena Fortún, Gloria Fuertes, Adelaida García Morales, Tristana, Louisa May Alcott, Carson McMullers, Patricia Highsmith, Victoria Kent, Alice Munro, Mary Beard, Monica Zgustova, Chimamanda Adichie Ngozie, Margaret Atwood, Edna O’Brien, Joan Didion, Lucia Berlin, Dorothy Parker, Angelika Schrobsdorff, Sally Mann, Joyce Maynard, Marjorie Eliot, Vivian Gornick, Olivia Laing, Nelle Harper Lee, Grace Paley, Elvira Lindo.

      • Fiction
        April 2021

        Composite Creatures

        by Caroline Hardaker

        Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood, Han Kang's Vegetarian, Megan Hunter’s The End We’re Starting From and Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, with a pinch of Black Mirror. Birds are gone. It only became noticeable when none were left. Norah’s mother collected their feathers on the ground and preciously passed them onto her daughter. She was an artist and dreamed of better things. But Norah isn’t her mother. In fact, she wasn’t even there when she passed away. She’s pragmatic and does ok in her 9-5 insurance job. Norah is in her thirties now and her date with Art (short for Arthur) has been cautiously engineered. They both meet in a restaurant, bringing their portfolio. Afterwards, each in the silence of their own little flat, they delight in reviewing the files: they’re a match. And when they spend their first night together, folding their clothes neatly on the side and only touching the tips of their fingers under the duvet tucked around their necks, they know they’re in for something special. And it doesn’t disappoint. The couple are soon selected for the most exciting upgrade: they’re given a creature. It comes with a strict set of rules, mostly to keep it in a safe secluded environment – the loft has been prepared for this – and not to get attached. But Norah soon pushes the boundaries: letting the cute ball of fur run wild in the house and sleep in their bed. While Art keeps his distance, Norah gets closer to it (or her!) by the day and even gives her a name. As ‘Nut’ grows, and starts to develop features uncannily similar to Norah’s and Art’s, the reason behind Nut’s existence becomes impossible to ignore anymore and the couple must face a devastating reality which tests their bonds to family, memory, and each other forever. A dark and haunting take on both literary and science fiction.

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        Ventura Press

        by Books From Australia

        Ventura Press is one of Sydney’s leading independent publishers and has become synonymous with high quality titles and internationally respected authors. Our list covers a unique and specific market – books to enhance life. The Ventura mission is to provide boutique, innovative and exciting publishing in Australia and world wide – with particular focus on bringing strong, female Australian voices to the global stage.

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