Kategorie: eBooks
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Zacharias Mbizo: Luckless Homecoming
The Dead Man who Solved the Murder of Himself. A dead man complains to the responsible angelic clerk in heaven for having been unjustly and far too early removed from the Book of Life. As a result, he is allowed to return to earth for a limited period of time…
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Ilka Hoffmann:Diary of a Shadowless Man
Part I: The Shadow Loss Theo C. can´t believe it at first: he has lost his shadow! How is he supposed to go on living now? After all, a person without a shadow will cause offence everywhere! So the offer of a company for replacement shadows comes just at the…
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Nadja Dietrich: Murder in the German Parliament
Investigations of a Cleaning Lady. What a shock for Lidia Afanasyevna! While cleaning the toilets in the German parliament, she finds a dead politician. Who was the man? And why does the news claim that he died in his office? Is there perhaps a cover-up going on? Curious, Lidia Afanasyevna…
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Edgar Fuhrmann. Central Station
Tales of Misery and Isolation The texts in this collection of stories deal with people on the edge of society, stranded as human flotsam at the central station, this labyrinthine center of modern societies. Realistic narratives alternate with texts that look at events as if under a magnifying glass, thus…
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Jacques Prévert: The Poet of Everyday Life
Jacques Prévert is a poetic icon in France today, his poems are part of the school curriculum. Given the poet’s deliberate distance from high culture and notably from traditional school education, this is not devoid of irony. The present eBook sketches a portrait of the poet in five chapters. In…
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Lidia Afanasyevna’s Dreams
Excerpts from Nadja Dietrich’s Novel Murder in the German Parliament! Investigations of a Cleaning Lady In a six-part series on Planet Literature, we will delve into the dreams of the protagonist of Nadja Dietrich’s novel Murder in the German Parliament! Investigations of a Cleaning Lady. What a shock for Lidia…
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