Mankind & Other Stories of Women (Essential Prose) by Marianne Ackerman

My Torturess (Middle East Literature In Translation)

During this harrowing novel, a tender Moroccan bookseller is falsely accused of beinginvolved in jihadist actions. Drugged and carried off the road, Hamuda is"extraordinarily rendered" to a jail camp in an unknown situation the place heis interrogated and subjected to varied tools of torture. Narrated in the course of the voice of the younger prisoner, the unconventional unfolds inHamuda’s try to checklist his event as soon as he's eventually published after sixyears in captivity.

Chamelea

By the point Thomas Barragan used to be an eight-year-old boy, his mom had instilled inside of him the emotional foundations of the daughter she may have most popular. Now as an grownup and a Reverend, his girl instincts have ate up him. As Chamelea, a “liberator of souls,” Thomas has constructed his expertise as a hypnotist and his calling as a guy of God to safe the belief of his lady sufferers.

Strangers in Budapest: A Novel

“You mustn't ever inform somebody . . . ” Budapest is a urban of secrets and techniques, a spot the place every thing is opaque and not anything is because it turns out. it truly is to this enigmatic urban younger American couple, Annie and should, flow with their youngster son, presently after the autumn of the Communist regime. Annie hopes to flee the ghosts from her previous; Will desires to take his probability as an entrepreneur in Hungary’s newly constructing financial system.

Zwei Königinnen (German Edition)

Teleportieren ist die neue, aufregende paintings zu reisen. Auf dem Weg zu einem Termin geschieht Elin ein Unfall: Ihr Körper wird nicht zum Ziel übertragen, sondern kopiert. Sie existiert nun zwei Mal, die gleiche Vergangenheit, gleichen Eigenschaften, Wünsche. Niemand will von der Fehlfunktion hören, stattdessen werden die beiden Elins sich selbst überlassen.