Narrative temaer: Sociale forhold

Den amerikanske forretningsmand Hunter White er taget til den afrikanske savanne for at skyde det sidste af the big five: næsehornet. Men af lodgens ejer bliver han diskret tilbudt, formedelst en mindre formue, at skyde the big six ...“Trofæ får dig til at tænke, gør dig vred og river dig med fra første side til den eksplosive, bittersøde slutning” Financieel Dagblad“Schoeters overvælder sin læser med en retorisk kraft … et mareridt på adrenalin” De Standaard

Nova lever et udsvævende liv med tilfældig sex og hash på den ene side, mens hun forsøger at balancere med moderskabet, regninger og husholdning på den anden. Et ultimatum fra eksmanden om at lægge hash på hylden og få styr på sit liv, bliver starten på en turbulent rejse for Nova. Hvem er hun, og hvilken slags mor vil hun være for sin datter?

Incantation is a Chicana's witness of America's ongoing chaos, love, resistance, and resilience.

Efter nogle dramatiske begivenheder ønsker Ellie Anthony og hendes treårige datter, Hope, bare fred og ro. De står alene i verden og har ingen at stole på. Ellie leder på ingen måde efter kærlighed, mest af alt leder hun efter et sikkert sted at bo. Men da Jax Mayson insisterer på, at de skal bo hos ham, ser Ellie ingen anden udvej end at stole på ham. Også selvom hun er urolig over de følelser, han vækker i hende.Første gang Jax ser Ellie, falder han for hende med et brag. Han ved, at det nu er hans tur til at opleve Mayson-forbandelsen. Jax' oplevelser som barn spejler på mange måder de udfordringer, Ellie står over for, og det giver ham en stærk trang til at beskytte de to piger og gøre dem til sin familie. Han er fast besluttet på at bevise, at han er manden, Ellie og Hope fortjener. Men han ved også, at det betyder, at han må gøre op med sin fortid – som han ikke har tænkt på i over 20 år.Indtil Jax er sjette bind i Aurora Rose Reynolds' succesfulde Indtil-serie om November, Trevor, Lilly og Nico. I Indtil July og Indtil Jax følger vi nogle af de døtre og sønner, der kom ud af de legendariske kærlighedsmøder mellem November & Asher, Trevor & Liz, Lilly & Cash og Nico & Sophie.Advarsel: Bogen indeholder sexscener og en stærk alfa-han!

Den unge historiker Herman arbejder som uafhængig ekspert i Kharkiv, det står der i hvert fald på hans visitkort; selv er han i tvivl om, hvad han egentlig laver. Straks mere håndgribeligt er det, at hans bror driver en benzintank ude i Donbas. Men så forsvinder broderen pludseligt, er ifølge rygter rejst til Holland. Herman drager mod Donbas i en sort folkevogn med en høne på køleren for at rede trådene ud og vende hurtigst muligt tilbage til Kharkiv. Men ikke alt går, som præsten prædiker …Mellem en enorm himmel og uendelige majsmarker: Jazz i Donbas er ukrainske Sergij Zjadans prisbelønnede epos fra før verden gik af lave, en usentimental røverhistorie og en medrivende roadroman om bl.a. korruption, musik, gamle venner, nye fjender og – måske mest af alt – ansvarlighed og taknemmelighed.

Knuselskelig, generøs og med et glimt i øjetDet vi har er et alfabetiseret, illustreret ”leksikon”, som lærer os, at der er et minimum af mening at hente hos høns, at det er sundt at “tankeslentre”, at menneskets udviklingshistorie er proportional med mængden af chokolade og at det kan være sjovt at lyve. En helt igennem generøs og ærlig opslagsbog om at være menneske, om at vi allerede er ankommet og at vi allerede har størstedelen af de ting, vi har brug for.Birgit Bjerre (f. 1970) er uddannet fra Det Jyske Kunstakademi og er bl.a. del af det kunstnerdrevne værkstedsfællesskab og udstillingssted KH7 Aarhus Havn. Arbejder med tekst, maleri, tegning og installationer. Det vi har er hendes kortprosa-debut.

'Everyone should be screaming about it' MONICA HEISEYWIFE. HUSBAND. BEST FRIEND. What if your two favourite people hated each other with a passion?A nice house, a carefree life, a doting husband, a best friend who never leaves your side. You couldn't ask for more. There's just one problem: your husband and best friend love you, but they hate each other. Over a single day, wife, husband and best friend Temi toe the lines of compromise and betrayal. Slowly, their lives begin to unravel, until a startling discovery throws everyone's integrity into question...'Funny, terrifically entertaining' DAILY MAIL'A treat... this millennial noir is a taut exploration of culture and the politics of relationships' BOLU BABALOLA'A tense read that will have you glued to your beach chair!' JENNY JACKSONREADERS LOVE THE THREE OF US'I devoured this brilliant book in one sitting''Compulsive reading...it's extremely hard to put down''Agbaje-Williams is definitely one to watch''An excellent book club read''The characters all felt completely real...utterly brilliant''I absolutely loved this book!'

'The Susan Sontag of her generation' Deborah LevyThe story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apart.In 2019, Anna, a psychoanalyst, is processing a recent miscarriage. Her husband, David, takes a job in London so she spends days obsessing over renovating the kitchen while befriending a younger woman called Clémentine who has moved into the building and is part of a radical feminist collective called les colleuses.Meanwhile, in 1972, Florence and Henry are redoing their kitchen. Florence is finishing her degree in psychology while hoping to get pregnant. But Henry isn't sure he's ready for fatherhood...Both sets of couples face the challenges of marriage, fidelity, and pregnancy. The characters and their ghosts bump into and weave around each other, not knowing that they once all inhabited the same space.A novel in the key of Éric Rohmer, Scaffolding is about the bonds we create with people, and the difficulty of ever fully severing them; about the ways that people we've known live on in us; and about the way that the homes we make hold communal memories of the people who've lived in them and the stories that have been told there.'Atmospheric and evocative, the prose elegant and poised' Observer

13-årige Aidan vil gerne være usynlig, men føler sig anderledes. Hvorfor kan han ikke bare være som alle andre?Aidan har fire søstre og kærlige forældre, der har følelserne helt uden på tøjet. Hans bedste ven er helt sin egen og hviler i det, men vennen bliver drillet og udskammet i skolen for at være anderledes. Som om det ikke var nok, skal Aidans mor nu have endnu et barn, men denne gang skal det gives væk. Hun skal være surrogatmor for et homoseksuelt par.Aidan kan slet ikke rumme det - han er nemlig bange for, at han er homoseksuel. Mon Atif og Justin kan se det på ham? Hvordan ved man om man er homoseksuel? Og hvorfor kan han ikke bare være som alle andre?Fængende dannelsesroman for tweens om identitet, køn og selvaccept.En virkelig fin bog om al den usikkerhed man kan have over, hvem man er, og hvor man hører til i verden. Man lever sig virkelig ind i Aidan som person, og man kan se, hvordan hans usikkerhed og frygt skaber afstand mellem ham og de mennesker, der holder af ham. Heldigvis ender Aidan med at acceptere den, han er og også at kunne rumme usikkerheden over måske ikke at vide det helt sikkert. Anbefales varmt til PLC og folkebibliotek.Lektørudtalelsen

Sandhed og løgn. Jamaica og England. Hvem har ret til at fortælle? Zadie Smith er tilbage med sin første historiske roman.Kilburn, 1873. Tichborne-sagen har hele Englands udelte opmærksomhed, og enke og husholderske mrs. Eliza Touchet er ingen undtagelse. Folk er rygende uenige om, hvorvidt tiltalte er den, han siger han er – eller en bedrager.Mrs. Touchet er en kvinde med mange interesser: litteratur, kampen for de slavegjortes rettigheder, klassesamfundet, sin fætter som er romanforfatter og hans koner, det jordiske liv og evigheden. Men hun er også skeptisk anlagt og overbevist om at kun få ting er, som de ser ud.Andrew Bogle er kronvidne i Tichborne-sagen, og hans fremtid afhænger af at han fortæller den rette historie – hvis bare han vidste, hvad det ville sige. Med sin opvækst på en plantage i Jamaica i bagagen ved han, at hver en sukkerknald har menneskelige omkostninger. At de rige fører de fattige bag lyset. Og at mennesker er nemmere at manipulere med, end de selv ved af.Bedrageren er baseret på virkelige begivenheder. Et glitrende monument over en verden af hykleri og selvbedrag, hvor det at afgøre hvad der er sandt, er sværere, end man skulle tro.

A Deaf teen escapes his father's basement after years of imprisonment. Bloody, alone, and without language, he lands in a psychiatric facility, where another Deaf teen teaches him Sign Language and begins to mold him in his own image.

Sjette bog på dansk af multi-prisvindende Donal Ryan er en tumultarisk samtidsfortælling om en håndfuld stærke kvinder i en irsk landsby – hvor alle kender alle – nogle af dem tilbageholdende og stille, andre med et ordforråd så sprængfyldt af bandeord, at man bliver aldeles stakåndet. The Washington Post skriver om romanen:”Et lille irsk mirakel … der er indlejret så meget visdom på disse sider – om at leve og om at skrive … Ryan har sin helt egen følelsesmæssige spændvidde og særlige måde at fange storheden i det, der kunne ligne små liv, men ikke er det.”Har du ikke allerede læst resten af Donal Ryans forfatterskab, er det hermed anbefalet! Og hvis du har, vil du efterhånden begynde at genkende flere af de meget menneskelige indbyggere i County Tipperary, Irland; alle bøgerne rummer selvstændige historier, mens personernes liv overlapper hinanden, som de nu gør, når man bor i mindre bysamfund.

En fortravlet forretningsmand får den strålende idé at ansætte en højrehånd for at få styr på kaosset i hjemmet – og finder den perfekte tjener i jævnaldrende Mario, som er både effektiv og nærmest usynlig. Til at begynde med.Dubleanten er en nøgternt og uhøjtideligt fortalt tragikomedie om magt og indre dæmoner, og ikke mindst en satirisk og sørgmodig spejling af et samfund, hvor det er muligt så at sige at ”leve på anden hånd”.Det er ikke ofte, græsk samtidslitteratur udkommer på dansk, men Sotakis er i Danmark blevet kendt med sine anmelderroste romaner Ovnstegt rumæner med grøntsager (2020) og Historien om et supermarked (2022). Han benytter gerne grotesker og emnerne er ikke særskilt græske, da han helst undgår det folkloristiske og fokuserer på det almenmenneskelige.

'Funny, merciless, brilliant... I loved it'CURTIS SITTENFELD, bestselling author of ROMANTIC COMEDYSeamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima are running out of time to decide on their futures.In a university town in the American Midwest, this circle of lovers and friends ask themselves: what is the right thing to stake a life on? Work, love, money, dance, poetry? Is love possible without harm? And what does true connection look like in an age of precarity?The author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Real Life returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women trying to work out what they want, and who they are.'Taylor is a sharp chronicler'RAVEN LEILANI, author of LUSTER'Assures Taylor's position as one of the most important novelists of his generation'GUARDIAN'Remarkable'FINANCIAL TIMES'Elegant... Taylor has a Chekhovian generosity'CLAIRE MESSUD, author of THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN

'Gripping... irresistible... brilliant' The Times'Perfectly judged and intimately alive' GuardianNayan Olak hasn't risked love since his young son died.Instead he has ploughed his grief and energy into his work at the union, trying to create the world he would have wanted for his boy. Now he's running for the leadership: a huge moment for Nayan, the culmination of everything he believes.As he grows closer to the mysterious Helen Fletcher, and to the possibility that their pasts may have been connected, much more is suddenly threatened than his chances of winning. And when Megha Sharma, a new candidate with new politics, bursts into the picture, the race of a lifetime is on.'A plot-packed, propulsive story' New York Times'Restless, inquiring, utterly topical. The Spoiled Heart may be his finest yet, with a tumultuous but perfectly sustained ending that proves both moving and revelatory' Financial TimesReaders are obsessed with The Spoiled Heart:**'A deft and artful novel when it comes to speaking around the philosophical questions that define our current 'culture wars''**'A compelling story that looks at a number of social and cultural issues but is basically a very absorbing narrative'**'A masterful novel which asks important topical state-of-the-nation questions'**'My favourite of Sahota's novels'

She did everything right. So why did it go so wrong?'I loved Jade. Rooting for her felt like rooting for myself.' Real reader review'It really is one of the most moving books I've ever read and far easier to read than a book this deep should be, thanks to the authors beautiful writing.' Real reader review'Jade was the perfect main character. I loved reading her story ... I urge everyone to read this' Real reader reviewJade isn't even my real name. Jade began as my Starbucks name, because all children of immigrants have a Starbucks name.------------------Jade has become everything she ever wanted to be.Successful lawyer. Dutiful daughter. Beloved girlfriend. Loyal friend. Until one night, something terrible happens after a work event, and she starts to wonder if she really wants to be the person she's become.She's learned to laugh when she's felt like crying, opted to be invisible when she wanted to speak up and changed her identity to please people. But now Jade has to make a decision for herself. The question is, which is the right one? This searing novel explores the strength we find in female friendship, the hope that lights up the dark moments and recovery that's far from linear, and will leave you asking yourself: what would you have done in Jade's situation?'Ela Lee is a remarkable new voice in fiction ... JADED made me laugh, cry and really bloody furious' Stacey Halls, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars'JADED is a thoughtful, hard-hitting exploration of race, identity, and the rippling effects of sexual assault. Ela Lee writes with an urgency and clarity that will have you hooked until the last page.' Cecile Pin, Women's Prize longlisted author of Wandering Souls 'This raw, dark novel explores racism, class and sexism and you'll want to savour every word on every page' Refinery 29'A raw, compulsive and nuanced novel' i newspaper

Sara Stridsbergs tre teatertekster Medealand, Dissekering af et snefald samt Valerie Jean Solanas skal være præsident i Amerika er her samlet i en udgivelse.I de tre stykker møder vi flygtningen, hævneren Medea, hende, der tager livet af sine børn som hævn mod sin mand. Dronning Kristina Alexandra, der ikke vil gifte sig, ikke vil føde børn, ikke være kvinde. Hun vil være konge. Og Valerie Jean Solanas, Solanas, der skrev det feministiske manifest S.C.U.M, Solanas, som skød kunstneren Andy Warhol, Solanas, der ligger dødssyg på Bristol Hotel i San Francisco.Sammen viser de hvorfor svenske Sara Stridsberg er en af de stærkeste litterære stemmer vi har i Norden.

Sara, en 15-årig pige fra Viby, er sammen med sine forældre og storesøster, Anne, på vej til København for at holde juleferie hos sin mormor og morfar. Det har hun glædet sig til og til at komme væk fra skolen. Sara og familien er taget ud på den årlige juletræsfældning. Sara går for sig selv og samler mos og grankogler til juledekorationerne. Sneen knitrer, når hun går. Imens Sara går i sin egen verden, begynder hun at blive nervøs og mærker kuldegysninger over hele kroppen. Hun tager sig lidt til panden. Hun sveder. Hun prøver at tage flere skridt derhen, men det er, som om hele kroppen står stille. Hun kan ikke bevæge sig ud af sneen.I skovbunden ligger en mand omringet af flasker. Sara ringer til sin mor. Far henter skovfogeden. Politiet kommer også. Hvem er manden?Da Sara er kommet tilbage til mormor og morfar, kan hun ikke slippe billedet af manden på skovbunden. Sammen med Morten fra mormor og morfars vej sætter Sara sig for at finde ud af, hvem manden er, og hvorfor han er endt på skovbunden.

Eigentlich will Lena mit ihrer besten Freundin nur ein paar entspannte Tage in Italien verbringen. Dann passiert das Unglaubliche: Ein Mord in der Ferienanlage, in der die beiden Frauen mit ihren Teenagern untergebracht sind. Doch wer ist der Mörder und hat der attraktive Mann, den Lena am Strand kennengelernt hat, vielleicht doch mehr zu verbergen als sie denkt?

This book analyzes the various ways of coming to terms with the Emmett Till case in US fiction. The 1955 lynching of the fourteen-year-old black youth in the Mississippi Delta raised a cultural trauma in the US collective imaginary that particularly pierced the African American community, later resulting in a recurrent motif that this monograph conceptualizes as the Emmett Till trauma. This motif has historically permeated the whole spectrum of US society, springing up in manifold ways and artistic manifestations, but why does it continue to reverberate with such prominence nowadays? And which strategies have the different communities been adopting to cope with it over the years? This book seeks in literature the answers to these central questions, as it analyzes the ways in which several social groups come to terms with the Till trauma, focusing on the three major novels inspired by the tragic incident: Bebe Moore Campbell¿s Your Blues Ain¿t Like Mine (1992), Lewis Nordan¿s Wolf Whistle (1993), and Bernice L. McFadden¿s Gathering of Waters (2012). The critical analysis of these three novels is imbued with a theoretical framework mainly based on trauma theory but also influenced by spectrality studies and black studies. Such a theoretical framework allows exploration of the hidden intricacies of the Till case and its traumatic impact on the broader US society, with special emphasis on its aftereffects within the African American community, in the first single-authored monograph on the infamous lynching in literature."Carefully theorized and persuasively argued, this study is the most comprehensive account we have of the haunting presence of Emmett Till in the American literary imagination. Attuned to hidden intricacies, Martín Fernández Fernández makes a convincing case that fiction provides us with the expansive space we need to work through historical trauma, enabling us to mourn properly across generations while at the same time exploring opportunities for progress and healing. Anyone interested in this lynching, and the vast literary response it has inspired, would do well to give this study the close attention it deserves."¿Chris Metress, Professor at Samford University; Author of The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative"This book successfully links the events of the Emmett Till case to recent historical episodes and the Black Lives Matter movement triggered by them. It is a thoroughly documented study that manages to present in a straightforward and accessible manner the historical and mythical significance of a case that still today haunts the US collective memory. The overwhelming evidence, the soundness of the argumentation, and the clarity and accessibility of the writing make of this monograph a valuable addition to our understanding of the African American experience, as well as the complex texture of the US as a nation."¿Manuel Broncano, Professor of American Literature, Texas A&M International University"Martín Fernández Fernández locates the forever wound of black child murder in the crevices of Americäs racial fault lines in his study The Emmett Till Trauma in US Fiction. More than just a recounting of the gruesome killing of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, Fernández Fernández¿s thoughtful study traces the ways Till¿s murder has been memorialized in speculative fiction. Mythology, magical realism, and creative license provide ready avenues for the explorations of familial retribution, spiritual redemption, and communal healing in the bloodlines of both impacted families in the Till saga."¿Carol E. Henderson, Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, Chief Diversity Officer, Emory University; Professor Emerita, English, Africana Studies, University of Delaware

Life after crime from the International Booker-shortlisted author of Elena KnowsFifteen years after killing her husband's lover, Inés is fresh out of prison and trying to put together a new life. Her old friend Manca is out now too, and they've started a business - FFF, or Females, Fumigation, and Flies - dedicated to pest control and private investigation, by women, for women. But Señora Bonar, one of their clients, wants Inés to do more than kill bugs - she wants her expertise, and her criminal past, to help her kill her husband's lover, too. Crimes against women versus crimes by women; culpability, fallibility, and our responsibilities to each other--this is Piñeiro at her wry, earthy best, alive to all the ways we shape ourselves to be understandable, to be understood, by family and love and other hostile forces.

"This is a ghost story. A junkie has gone to El Zapotal to die - to rent a room in this crumbling backwater, melt into one last fix, and not come back. For someone so ready to no longer be alive, though, he can't stop clinging to the past. His old dog, Kid, who he abandoned. His love, Valerie, who he introduced to drugs. There's no such thing as a good memory. El Zapotal doesn't want him either. The people aren't welcoming, the streets are empty except for strays, and he's having trouble pacing his supply. As the drugs run out, the line between what's real and what's not blurs to the point of illegibility, and we're left wandering a tenderly described hinterland of despair, hunger, and regret."--

"A fractured account of family abuse, secrets, and the cost of pursuing the truth. In the most private spaces, the most intimate betrayals occur. Belen Lopez Peiro places us squarely in the tenderest of times--young teenagehood, in a home about to be ruptured by sexual assault. In this home, for this young woman, your assailant is your uncle, and also a police commissioner. The people who shelter you will reject you: your mother is his sister-in-law, your beloved aunt his wife and your cousin and friend his daughter. And the truth of what happened will depend entirely on you. Why Did You Come Back Every Summer is a document of uncertainty, self-doubt, and the appearance of progress when there is none. A chorus of voices interrupt and overtake each other; interviews and reports are filed. The truth will be heard but how and by whom? Loyalties will shift and slip. And certain questions have no easy answers. What do you owe to your family? What do they owe you? How far will you go to get yourself back?"--Publisher.