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  1. Devotion
    Author: Kent, Hannah
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Picador, London

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781509863914; 1509863915; 9781509863891; 1509863893
    RVK Categories: HQ 2999
    Other subjects: Friendship / Fiction; Ocean travel / Fiction; Families / Fiction; Emigration and immigration / Fiction; South Australia / History / 1836-1851 / Fiction; Prussia (Germany) / History / 19th century / Fiction
    Scope: 417 Seiten
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    First published 2021 in Picador by Pan Macmillan Australia
  2. Bridge of sighs
    Author: Russo, Richard
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Alfred A. Knopf, New York

    Louis Charles ("Lucy") Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now a grown man. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he's had plenty of... more

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    Louis Charles ("Lucy") Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now a grown man. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he's had plenty of reasons not to be--chief among them his mother, still indomitably alive. Yet it was her shrewdness, combined with that Lynch optimism, that had propelled them years ago to the right side of the tracks and created an "empire" of convenience stores about to be passed on to the next generation. Lucy and Sarah are also preparing for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Italy, where his oldest friend, a renowned painter, has exiled himself far from anything they'd known in childhood. In fact, the exact nature of their friendship is one of the many mysteries Lucy hopes to untangle in the "history" he's writing of his hometown and family.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780375414954
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Series: A Borzoi book
    Subjects: City and town life / Fiction; Friendship / Fiction; Lifestyles / Fiction; City and town life; Friendship; Lifestyles
    Scope: 527 S.
  3. In the city by the sea
    Author: Shamsie, Kamila
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London [u.a.]

    "Hasan is eleven years old. He loves cricket, pomegranates, the night sky, his clever, vibrant artistic mother and his etymologically obsessed lawyer father, and he adores his next-door neighbour Zehra. One early summer morning, while lazing happily... more

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    "Hasan is eleven years old. He loves cricket, pomegranates, the night sky, his clever, vibrant artistic mother and his etymologically obsessed lawyer father, and he adores his next-door neighbour Zehra. One early summer morning, while lazing happily on the roof, Hasan watches a young boy flying a yellow kite fall to his death. Soon after, Hasan's idyllic, sheltered family life is shattered when his beloved uncle Salman, a dissenting politician, is arrested and charged with treason. Set in a land ruled by an oppresive military regime, this eloquent, charming and quietly political novel vividly recreates the confusing world of a young boy on the edge of adulthood, and beautifully illustrates the transformative power of the imagination." -- Back cover

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780747571643
    RVK Categories: HQ 6894
    Edition: Paperback ed.
    Subjects: Separation (Psychology) / Fiction; Pakistanis / England / Fiction; Immigrants / Fiction; Friendship / Fiction; Einwanderer
    Scope: 213 S., 20 cm
  4. Talk
    Author: Rosenkrantz, Linda
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  NYRB, New York, NY

    "Friendships are built on chatter, on gossip, on revelations--on talk. Over the course of the summer of 1965, Linda Rosenkrantz taped conversations between three friends (two straight, one gay) on the cusp of thirty vacationing at the beach: Emily,... more

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    "Friendships are built on chatter, on gossip, on revelations--on talk. Over the course of the summer of 1965, Linda Rosenkrantz taped conversations between three friends (two straight, one gay) on the cusp of thirty vacationing at the beach: Emily, an actor; Vince, a painter; and Marsha, a writer. The result was Talk, a novel in dialogue. The friends are ambitious, conflicted, jealous, petty, loving, funny, sex- and shrink-obsessed, and there's nothing they won't discuss. Topics covered include LSD, fathers, exes, lovers, abortions, S&M, sculpture, books, cats, and of course, each other. Talk was ahead of its time in recognizing the fascination and significance of nonfamily ties in contemporary life. It may be almost fifty years since Emily, Vince, and Marsha spent the season in East Hampton, but they wouldn't be out of place on the set of Girls or in the pages of a novel like Sheila Heti's How Should a Person Be?"--

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781590178447
    Series: New York Review Books classics
    Subjects: Friendship / Fiction; Interpersonal relations / Ficiton; FICTION / Humorous; FICTION / Contemporary Women; FICTION / Gay
    Scope: XI, 215 S., 21 cm
  5. Piranesi
    Author: Clarke, Susanna
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Publishing, London ; Oxford ; New York ; New Delhi ; Sydney

    Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds... more

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    Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food and waterlilies to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone. Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims? Lost texts must be found; secrets must be uncovered. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781526622426
    RVK Categories: HN 9990
    Other subjects: Dwellings / Fiction; Curiosities and wonders / Fiction; Friendship / Fiction; Dead / Fiction; Note-taking / Fiction; Strangers / Fiction; Prophecies / Fiction; Secrecy / Fiction; Fantasy fiction; Fantasy fiction
    Scope: 245 Seiten
  6. Ghost wall
    Author: Moss, Sarah
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Granta, London

    Seventeen-year-old Silvie is camping in rural Northumberland with her father and a group of archaeologists, who hope to uncover evidence of human sacrifice. As Silvie glimpses new freedoms with the students, her relationship with her overbearing... more

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    Seventeen-year-old Silvie is camping in rural Northumberland with her father and a group of archaeologists, who hope to uncover evidence of human sacrifice. As Silvie glimpses new freedoms with the students, her relationship with her overbearing father deteriorates, until the haunting rites of the past begin to bleed into the present

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781783787852
    Other subjects: Abusive men / Fiction; Social role / Fiction; Iron age / Fiction; Interpersonal relations / Fiction; Friendship / Fiction; Rôle social / Romans, nouvelles, etc; Amitié / Romans, nouvelles, etc; Thrillers (Fiction); Thrillers (Fiction); Thrillers (Fiction)
    Scope: 152 Seiten, 20 cm
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    Originally published: 2018
  7. The English understand wool
    Author: Dewitt, Helen
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  New Directions Books, New York, NY

    "Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais ton ("bad taste" loses something in the translation). One should not ask servants to wait on one during Ramadan: they must have paid... more

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    "Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais ton ("bad taste" loses something in the translation). One should not ask servants to wait on one during Ramadan: they must have paid leave while one spends the holy month abroad. One must play the piano; if staying at Claridge's, one must regrettably install a Clavinova in the suite, so that the necessary hours of practice will not be inflicted on fellow guests. One should cultivate weavers of tweed in the Outer Hebrides but have the cloth made up in London; one should buy linen in Ireland but have it made up by a Thai seamstress in Paris (whose genius has been supported by purchase of suitable premises). All this and much more she has learned, governed by a parent of ferociously lofty standards. But at 17, during the annual Ramadan travels, she finds all assumptions overturned. Will she be able to fend for herself? Will the dictates of good taste suffice when she must deal, singlehanded, with the sharks of New York?"--

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780811230070
    Edition: First edition
    Series: Storybook ND
    Subjects: Jugend; Umgangsformen; Freundschaft; Roman
    Other subjects: Teenage girls / New York (State) / New York / Fiction; Friendship / Fiction; Etiquette / Fiction; Manners and customs / Fiction; New York (N.Y.) / Fiction; Etiquette; Friendship; Manners and customs; Teenage girls; New York (State) / New York; Fiction; Novellas; Novellas
    Scope: 69 Seiten, 24 cm
  8. Absolutely and forever
    Author: Tremain, Rose
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Chatto & Windus, London

    How do you find the courage to make your own life? Marianne Clifford, teenage daughter of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, falls helplessly and absolutely for eighteen-year-old Simon Hurst, whose cleverness and physical beauty suggest that... more

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    How do you find the courage to make your own life? Marianne Clifford, teenage daughter of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, falls helplessly and absolutely for eighteen-year-old Simon Hurst, whose cleverness and physical beauty suggest that he will go forward into a successful and monied future, helped on by doting parents. But fate intervenes. Simon's plans are blown off course, he leaves for Paris and Marianne is forced to bury her dreams of a future together. It is Marianne who tells this piercing story of first love, characterising herself as ignorant and unworthy, whilst her smart, ironic narration tellingly reveals so much more. Finding her way in 1960s Chelsea, and supported by her courageous Scottish friend, Petronella, she continues to seek the life she never stops craving. And in Paris, beneath his blithe exterior, Simon Hurst continues to nurse the secret which will alter everything

     
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  9. Desert boys
    Author: McCormick, Chris
    Published: May 2016
    Publisher:  Picador, New York

    "In the tradition of startling debuts such as We, the Animals by Justin Torres, Desert Boys follows the life of Daley Kushner, growing up, coming out, and grappling with the remnants of his childhood in California's Mojave Desert. This series of... more

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    "In the tradition of startling debuts such as We, the Animals by Justin Torres, Desert Boys follows the life of Daley Kushner, growing up, coming out, and grappling with the remnants of his childhood in California's Mojave Desert. This series of powerful, linked stories illuminates Daley's world--the family, friends, and community that have both formed and constrained him, and his new life in San Francisco. Back home, the desert preys on those who cannot conform: an alfalfa farmer on the outskirts of town; two young girls whose curiosity leads to danger; a black politician who once served as his school's Confederate mascot; Daley's mother, an immigrant from Armenia; and Daley himself, introspective and queer. Meanwhile, in another desert on the other side of the world, war threatens to fracture Daley's most meaningful--and most fraught--connection to home, his friendship with Robert Karinger. Desert Boys traces the development of towns into cities, of boys into men, and the haunting effects produced when the two transformations overlap. Both a bildungsroman and a portrait of a changing place, the book mines the terrain between the desire to escape and the hunger to belong"--

     
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