Jörg Trobitius Livres

In this tenth anniversary edition of his award-winning memoir, New York Times bestselling author Peter Balakian has expanded his compelling story about growing up in the baby-boom suburbs of the '50s and '60s and coming to understand what happened to his family in the first genocide of the twentieth century—the Ottoman Turkish government's extermination of more than one million Armenians in 1915. In this new edition, Balakian continues his exploration of the Armenian Genocide with new chapters about his journey to Aleppo and his trip to the Der Zor desert of Syria in his pursuit of his grandmother's life, bringing us closer to the twentieth century's first genocide.

Quentin Crisp's memoir offers a humorous and poignant exploration of his tumultuous youth, marked by an unhappy childhood and challenging adolescence. Moving to London, he navigates a landscape filled with both brutality and comedy, encountering a series of fleeting jobs and unstable relationships. Throughout his experiences, Crisp demonstrates remarkable courage, wit, and insight, painting a vivid picture of his life as he seeks acceptance and identity in a complex world.

Während Boris Borovsky versucht, mit seiner exzentrischen Frau Oksana umzugehen, versucht sein Bruder Emmanuel, finanzielle Unterstützung für die Erlösungsmaschine zu finden, einen Computer, der dazu entworfen wurde, die Ressourcen der Welt zu verteilen.

George Steiners Essay versucht eine scharfsinnige Diagnose der Misere unseres Zeitalters und dessen sekundärer, parasitärer Kultur, in der die Welt zu Tode geredet zu werden droht und in der sich Beliebigkeit und Relativismus durchsetzen. Ein europäischer Intellektueller von hohem Rang eröffnet Perspektiven einer neuen Kulturtheorie.