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Weekly Highlights

Marzahn, mon amour by Katja Oskamp
Jo Heinrich (Translator)

My Ántonia by Willa Cather

A Decent World by Ellen Hawley

Writing Home: Selected Essays by David Carpenter

The Greatest Gresham by Gillian Avery

Cattle by Winnifred Eaton Reeve

Siphonophore by Jaimie Batchan

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Intro

A debut and a book launch: Gibbons or One Bloody Thing After Another by James Morrison

Boobs and bookmarks - with a special guest

Important reminder

Weekly Highlights

The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow

Pearl by Siân Hughes

The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt

New winner of the Dublin literary award.

Join Katja Oskamp & Jo Heinrich, winners of the prestigious 2023 Dublin Literary Award, for an in-depth look at the winning title, Marzahn Mon Amour, in conversation with Rick O‘Shea.

Fri 26 May, 18.15, Speranza - Merrion Square Park
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https://ilfdublin.com/whats-on/festival/programme/main/in-conversation-with-the-...

First one this year! Also my #bookspin one. Lots of little stories of different people. It‘s a good book to always come back to and have a little read.

Einfach ein großer Genuss! Rührend und witzig zugleich. Kann ich wirklich nur empfehlen.

One of the best opening paragraphs I‘ve read for a long time. 🙏♥️🙏♥️

What a gem - one I‘ll be recommending to everyone and popping in lots of birthday bags! It‘s terrifically humble, observant and full of warmth and humanity. It‘s fab to see older women on the page and her writing and the transition is divine. A one sitting book that will stay with me a very long time, principally for the courage some of the residents of Marzahn display in their everyday lives.

This is a nice short book of the stories of the people that lives in this area of Berlin. I really like it. Is from the perspective of a writer that works as a chiropodist

I loved this: short pen portraits of the (mostly elderly) customers who come visit her chiropody office. A picture of a part of Berlin that is gradually disappearing.

Another winner in translation from Peirene.

Marzahn Park Cemetery, eight in the evening, far from the noise of the city. At the end of a hot, dusty day, the birds are singing their evening chorus. The sun is at a low angle, its last rays spreading like wings over names on individual stones. Raked paths. Watered graves. Burning candles. Larches, oaks, pines. I wander through ferns and across the grass in the shade. Coolness, peace and space. A birch. A bench.

I went on a shopping 🛍 spree today and of course I couldn‘t pass over the local bookstore!
Marzahn Mon Amour is a German bestseller, and I hope it is as amusing as it looks. I have high expectations for #Expectation (haha) because of the blurb comparing it to Sally Rooney. We‘ll see!

#bookhaul #bookcover