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Jonas Lüscher, Frühling der Barbaren: Preising is a Swiss factory owner, in his mid-50s and somewhat lazy. He’s on a business trip, staying in a luxurious oasis hotel in Tunisia, the ‘Thousand and One Nights Resort’, where he watches the lavish preparations for a wedding. Rich young Englishmen from London’s financial sector have invited friends and family to a huge, riotous celebration. «Young people in their late 20s and early 30s…noisy and self-confident…slim and in the peak of condition.»
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Urs Faes, Sommer in Brandenburg: It’s Summer, 1938: Lissy Harb and Ron Berend are spending some time in Brandenburg, working on a Jewish agricultural training project in Ahrensdorf, near Trebbin. Ron is from Hamburg, Lissy from Vienna. Along with other young people, they’re getting ready to emigrate to Palestine. Once they arrive, they’ll be living on a kibbutz, so they have to learn the skills they’ll need to survive out there. They’re taking courses in agriculture, vegetable farming and joinery; they’re learning new languages and are being instructed in Jewish culture and religion.
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Katharina Geiser, Diese Gezeiten: In 1940 the German armed forces occupied the Channel Island of Jersey to the dismay of two artists who had settled there some time previously in order to escape the unrest in Paris. The Nazis' conduct is comparatively restrained but the dictatorship and discrimination are omnipresent, so Lucy Schwob and Suzette Malherbe begin to resist. They design posters and display them in public – until they are found out. Katharina Geiser's novel takes up this astonishing subject matter and weaves an atmospheric and very convincing story. The narrative tells of personal courage and the price to pay for it. It is its subtle nuances that make this novel. Not all of the inhabitants of Jersey were courageous, and not all Germans were despicable henchmen. Some «saw and heard nothing». Geiser imagines what happens to the two friends after their arrest. The voice of the narrator blends with the inner voices of Lucy and Suzanne in a delicately orchestrated narrative. They remain faithful to their strategy even in moments of danger by resisting the Germans through wordplay. This does not stop them being sentenced to death, but the end of the war chases the Germans from the island just in time. (Beat Mazenauer, trans. by Andrea Willfratt)
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