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Blackouts
Midden in de woestijn, in een complex dat Het Paleis heet, zorgt een jongeman voor zijn veel oudere vriend Juan Gay, die stervende is. De jongen, die met zichzelf in de knoop ligt, kijkt op tegen de erudiete, geestige en eloquente Juan: een geestverwant en voorbeeldfiguur. Op zijn sterfbed vertelt Juan over het project dat hij graag wil overdragen. Hij heeft een boek in handen – het daadwerkelijk gepubliceerde Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns uit 1948 – waarin verslag wordt gedaan van een onderzoek naar queer mensen in de eerste helft van de vorige eeuw. Hun stemmen zijn gefilterd, gedempt en vervormd, hun echte verhaal uitgewist. Het is Juans wens om de leugens en uitwissingen recht te zetten met een tegenverhaal. De twee mannen duiken niet alleen in de verhalen van Sex Variants, maar vertellen elkaar ook over hun eigen herinneringen, over hun schaamte en liefdes, hun verdriet en genot. In Blackouts vermengt Justin Torres fictie met wetenschappelijk onderzoek, droomwerelden met origineel fotomateriaal. Hij laat zien hoe queer mensen van verschillende generaties hebben moeten vechten voor hun plek in de geschiedenis en toont de verwoestende én verlichtende kracht van verhalen. Welke geschiedenis laten we leidend zijn?
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Blackouts
A NovelWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD: an intimate, emotionally rich novel, in which two men - young and old - reckon with queer histories and their place within them
€ 13,95 -
Memorial
The stellar debut novel of two young men falling in and out of love, from the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2020.
€ 13,95 -
Saints+Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival
New Fiction From the Festival 2026€ 21,95 -
Blackouts
€ 78,50 -
We the Animals American Classics Edition
€ 21,95 -
Karartmalar
Kim konusuyor Hikayeyi kim, ne pahasina anlatiyor Biz hikayeyi simdiye dek kimlerden dinledik Justin Torres, bu benzersiz kitabinda, hikaye anlaticiliginin tehlikelerini, bu tehlikeyi meydana getiren kaygan zemini ortaya sererek gösterir Tarih ve kurgu kitapta ic ice gecer; Jan Gay, Zhenya Gay, Ben Reitman ve Emma Goldman gibi gercek hayattan karakterler, Torresin kurgusal karakterleriyle ayni zeminde bulusur. San Diego konusma özgürlügü catismasi, Stonewall barinda baslayan kuir ayaklanmasi gibi önemli tarihsel olaylar; kitap boyunca yatak sohbetlerini dinledigimiz iki dostun hikayeleriyle kesisir. 20. yüzyilda escinselligin tarihi, iki karakterin kendi kisisel hikayeleriyle, kendileri ve dünyayla kurduklari iliskilerle örülü cok boyutlu bir anlati olarak yeniden kurulur. Karartmalar kurgu, ismini, Cinsel Varyantlar Escinsel Kaliplar Üzerine Bir Inceleme gercek adli psikolojik eserin sayfalarinin siyah kalemle karalanmasindan alir. Escinselligi bir sapkinlik olarak tanimlayan bu ahlakipsikolojik calismaya karsi duran bozma islemi, bizi derin bir gercekle yüz yüze getirir Saf, beyaz sayfa normal düzene hizmet eden bir yalandir. Tüm sayfalar daha en bastan karartilmis, escinsel deneklerin sesi daha en bastan susturulmus ve hikaye coktan sansürlenmistir. Tam da bu yüzden Karartmalar yagmalanmis bir tarihin geri kazanilmasini talep eder ve sorusu -en temelde- yapicidir Coktan bozulmus bu gecmisin bosluklarindan ve silinmisliklerinden simdi ne yaratacagiz
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Blackout. Ediz. italiana
Vincitore del National Book Award. Nel deserto, in un luogo decadente chiamato Il Palazzo, un giovane americano di origini portoricane si presenta al capezzale di un vecchio amico, Juan, per accompagnarlo nei suoi ultimi giorni. I due, una notte dopo l'altra, ripercorrono le loro esistenze condividendo la vergogna di essere cresciuti omosessuali in famiglie in cui non era tollerato. E, parallelamente, discutono di un progetto che Juan vorrebbe lasciare ai posteri: un'opera poderosa, visionaria, che contiene decine di resoconti, voci, storie queer. Così, mentre Juan attende la fine, lui e il narratore rivivono momenti di gioia e di dolore, di paura ed esaltazione, e nel farlo resuscitano amori, sofferenze, paure, ricordi, madri, padri ed eroi minori.
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We the Animals
Three brothers tear their way through childhood - smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from rubbish, hiding when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn - he's Puerto Rican, she's white. Barely out of childhood themselves, their love is a serious, dangerous thing. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another. From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to forge his own way in the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and incredibly powerful.
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Dream Boy
Jim Grimsley was born in rural eastern North Carolina and was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jim’s first novel, Winter Birds, won the Sue Kaufman Prize for best first novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. He has published other novels, including Dream Boy, Kirith Kirin, and My Drowning. His books are available in Hebrew, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese. He has also published a collection of plays and most recently a memoir, How I Shed My Skin. His body of work as a prose writer and playwright was awarded the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005. For twenty years he taught writing at Emory University in Atlanta.
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Blackouts
AUSGEZEICHNET MIT DEM NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023Blackouts ist eine eindringliche Erkundung von Erinnern und Vergessen, davon, wie Geschichten unsere Geschichte bewahren. Justin Torres verwebt Fakten mit Fiktion, stützt sich auf mündliche Überlieferungen und historische Aufzeichnungen und gräbt dabei ein Stück verloren gegangener queerer Historie aus.'Torres' Prosa hat die Intensität von Poesie.' Independent'Es ist selten, dass man einem jungen Autor mit einer Stimme begegnet, deren Einzigartigkeit, Kraft und Resonanz von der ersten Seite, ja sogar vom ersten Absatz an zu spüren sind... Torres sollte uns so begeistern, wie es Raymond Carver oder Jeffrey Eugenides getan haben.' The Washington Post
€ 24,00 -
Blackouts (Spanish Edition)
€ 23,95