W. Hansen Libri

Mariam ha quindici anni. La sua mente sogna di poeti e di giardini meravigliosi, quelli di cui suo padre, un ricco uomo d'affari, le racconta quando le fa visita, dandole un assaggio di una vita che non avrà mai. Perché Mariam è una harami, una bastarda, e per sopravvivere dovrà imparare una sola cosa: la sopportazione. Laila è nata a Kabul la notte in cui i russi hanno invaso la città. Suo padre ha voluto che lei andasse a scuola, perché, ripeteva, una società non può progredire se le sue donne sono ignoranti. Mariam e Laila non potrebbero essere più diverse, ma la guerra le farà incontrare in modo imprevedibile. Dall'intreccio di due destini, una storia indimenticabile, in un Afghanistan dove l'amore e l'amicizia sembrano ancora l'unica salvezza.

Wat als een historica over vijftig jaar terugkijkt naar het begin van de 21ste eeuw? Zij zal versteld staan dat wij – verblind door onze dagelijkse beslommeringen en ons kortetermijnperspectief? – de twee grootste bedreigingen die homo sapiens te wachten stonden niet zagen: een wereldomvattende klimaatcrisis met alle gevolgen van dien, en de digitalisering van arbeid die leidde tot massawerkloosheid en een algeheel verlies van zin en betekenisgeving. In Wat er op het spel staat analyseert Philipp Blom het historische scharnierpunt waarop wij ons bevinden aan de hand van verhelderende parallellen met andere historische aardverschuivingen, zoals het einde van het Romeinse Rijk, de Verlichting en de Duitse Weimarrepubliek. Het resultaat is een vlammend betoog vol sterke beelden en scherp verwoorde inzichten, dat iedereen zou moeten lezen die zich zorgen maakt over de toekomst van wat wij voor waardevol houden: vrijheid, tolerantie, het klimaat, arbeid, democratie en mensenrechten.

A young Tuvan shepherd witnesses the deterioration of his Mongolian culture as it collides with the modern world, from his older siblings' departure for boarding school, to the death of his beloved grandmother, to the poisoning of his faithful dog.

As a child raised by his mother in post-war Germany, Peter Debauer becomes fascinated by a story he discovers in the proof pages of a novel edited by his grandparents. It is the tale of a German prisoner of war who escapes from a Russian camp and braves countless dangers to return home to a wife who believes him to be dead. But the novel is incomplete and Peter becomes obsessed by the question of what happened when the soldier and his wife met again. Years later, the adult Peter remembers the novel and embarks on a search for the missing pages that soon becomes a mysterious search for his own father, a German soldier whom he always believed was killed in the war.

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