Auf Basidis Dach
Are you by any chance planning a trip to Morocco? Then Mona Ameziane’s autobiographical travel book is certainly good preparation.
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Harsh Times
Since poco.lit. is an English and German language platform, we rarely review books from other language zones. As such, it’s something of an exception that Peruvian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, should appear here. His latest novel Harsh Times sheds light on colonial power relations that are not based on the official colonial structures.
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Friday Black
Friday Black is the acclaimed first collection of short stories by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. He has a knack for locating the horror already existing in the everyday and drawing it to chilling yet strangely logical conclusions.
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May Ayim. Radikale Dichterin, Sanfte Rebellin
May Ayim. Radical Poet, Gentle Rebel (not yet translated into English) was released on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of May Ayim’s death in August 2021. The book is edited by her three friends and companions Ika Hügel-Marshall, Nivedita Prasad and Dagmar Schultz.
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The Meursault Investigation
The Meursault Investigation is Kamel Daoud’s Writing Back to Albert Camus’ The Stranger. It makes the systematic forgetting and leaving out visible.
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The way through the woods
Regardless of whether you’ve ever been mushroom picking or not, if you read Long Litt Woon’s The way through the woods: Overcoming grief through nature, you are sure to develop a fascination for it.
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Wut und Böse
Different communities have reappropriated terms, so surely an emotion can be reclaimed. Anger is not necessarily something evil in itself. Rather, it can be an expression of people’s realization that something is evil – unjust social structures, for example.
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Harlem Shuffle
Breaking with the much-needed, but often painful plunges into US history of the author’s previous novels, the portrayal of the Harlem Shuffle, and the reading experience as a whole are – as intended by the author – predominantly light-hearted and entertaining. It is a heist novel set in 1960s Harlem.
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Schwarzes Herz
Schwarzes Herz is the first novel by anti-racism activist Jasmina Kuhnke, and it reads like a diary entry by the protagonist. The first-person perspective, which allows readers to experience the fictional world of the protagonist from her perspective, is a particularly valuable one in the context of racism and domestic violence: it’s the voice of an affected person and readers have to listen.
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Deep Diversity – Overcoming Us vs. Them
In Deep Diversity. Overcoming Us vs. Them, Shakil Choudhury vividly presents his strategy for combating structural discrimination.
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