Christine Stohl - Filiale Kärntner Straße

“The Hunger Games“ is a book that sells in any case and I can understand why people make such a big fuss about it. It´s a really cruel and gripping story.
Panem, an empire streching over 12 districts, is centrally administered. To show how residents depend on the Capitol, every year it organises a game in which a teenage boy and a teenage girl of each district fight for surviving. Even if the story emphasizes that battle, it´s thoughtprovoking and definitely doesn´t lack a deep meaning.

Hansjörg Jehsenko - Filiale Käntner Straße

A laid-back, unpretentious book of observation (mostly, though not only from the saddle of the folding bike he is taking on his travels) in which David Byrne takes us on a ride round the cities of the world, from Sydney to Manila, from Buenos Aires to London, from Istanbul to Berlin and round the U.S.A. Ranging from the critical to the excited, he introduces the reader into the different fabrics of the cities he visits, often through the people he meets while touring or through little stories he is plotting.

A remarkable, witty, and deeply enjoyable read!

Viktoria Fuß - Filiale International

Elif Shafak erzählt die Geschichte zweier jungen Frauen; einer vaterlos aufgewachsenen Türkin in Istanbul und einer Armenierin, deren Mutter in die USA emigrierte. Was mir besonders gut gefällt, ist, dass diese beiden Menschen, die von Kindheit an gelernt haben, sich zu hassen und die Schuld am eigenen Unglück dem andern zuzuschieben, es schaffen, die Vergangenheit ruhen zu lassen und nach und nach entdecken, dass sie mehr gemeinsam haben, als sie dachten.

Elif Shafak – The Bastard of Istanbul

Christine Stohl - Filiale Kärntner Str.

Between 1940 and 1951 thousands of Lithuanians and Letvians were taken by soviets across Asia to Siberia to die there . Between shades of gray tells the gripping story about such a Lithuanian family split up and deported under Stalin´s rise to power. A teenage girl uses her arts showing moments of her life at labour camps hoping it will be passed to her father. What is absolutely unique about this novel is how convicts manage to protect human dignity though circumstances would suggest every one looking after himself first.

Siutable for readers aged 13 and upwards! The german translation is entitled „Und in mir der unbesiegbare Sommer“.

Ruta Sepetys - Between Shades of Gray
Philomel

Hansjörg Jehsenko - Filiale Kärntner Str.

This novel about Mick Little, an ageing Glaswegian still defined by his long gone days as a worker in a closed shipyard, and unsettled by the death of his wive, offers an intriguing, almost magnetic search into loss, both personal and sociologically, and grief, and the inability to cope with it. The heros fate, born with seemingly melancholic passivity and a bewildering, almost irritable detachment, is narrated in a fine, balanced and unobstrusive prose, even better than his remarkable and disturbing debut "God´s own country"

Ross Raisin - Waterline. Penguin

Hansjörg Jehsenko - Filiale Kärntner Str.

A classic hard boiled, fast paced thriller set in a South Africa still riveted by race, crime and superstition, the story unfolds into a remorseless and relentless cylce of hatred, revenge, violence and gloom.

Roger Smith - Dust devils.
Serpent´s Tail

dt. erhältlich als: Roger Smith - Staubige Hölle. Verlag Tropen €20.60

Hansjörg Jehsenko - Filiale Kärntner Str.

Another great South African crime novel is this finely plotted and superbly grafted book. An american girl, unvoluntary witness to a crime, get´s chased around Cape Town while the police are deperate to find her before she gets killed. Besides being a great thrill, it allows ample room to portrait the characters of the investigating cast as typefied members of an ambivalent society.

Deon Meyer - Thirteen hours.
Hodder&Stoughton

dt. Deon Meyer - Dreizehn Stunden.
Aufbau Taschenbuch €10.30

This visual guide to 5000 years of British history features the key events that shaped
the British Isles. Ideal for family reference and schools...
History of Britain and Ireland - The Definite Visual Guide
Dorling Kindersley

David Foster Wallace left behind an unfinished ovel of twelve chapters. The text is focused on the matter of boredom and its effects on mind and spirit...

David Foster Wallace - The Pale King

Daru, a young man in Lahore, who is fired from his job as a banker, has two great passions:his best friend's wife and hash. He finds himself divided between rich and poor, old and new, just like the city he lives in.

Mohsin Hamid - Moth Smoke
Penguin

Enright follows her heroine, Gina, on a journey of her heart. The story is a recollection of what lead to a love affair that wrecked two marriages.

Anne Enright - The Forgotten Waltz
Jonathan Cape

Untold Story is the tale of what might have happened to Princess Diana had she lived.The real Princess of Wales, Diana Spencer, Lady Di. The novel opens in small-town America,where Lydia, as she is now known, lives a quiet life, surrounded by a small group of friends,far away and safe from paparazzi. A novel about family and friendship, intrigue and obsesion, the meaning of identity.

Monika Ali - Untold Story
Doubleday

Amos' friends are all kind of spiecies from the zoo. He spends some time with each of them every day, being a good friend. But when he gets sick one day, his friends come and take care of him...

Philip C. Stead - A Sick Day for Amos McGee Roaring Book Press

Katja Leo - Filiale Praterstern

„I am alone, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness.“

An old man lies alone in the dark, telling himself stories, night after night.
Paul Auster needs only 148 Pages and his pure, elegant language to create a universe filled with gripping stories – fragile and touching.

Although I prefer crimestories this small, easy to read little jewel is as intense as a good thriller and as soft as a quiet lovestory.

Paul Auster - Man in the dark
Picador