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M E M O I R Seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling. Karl- Markus Gauß describes the earliest sensory experiences of a small boy in the mid-twentieth century, and at the same time paints a portrait of the author as a sheltered child. © Michael Appelt Karl-Markus Gauß Das Erste, was ich sah The First Thing I Set Eyes on The attention of the nameless narrator is caught by a voice from the radio: it is reciting names, a list of missing people and the places they were last seen. The next thing he hears is the words of his parents and siblings; new words, some of them in foreign languages. The boy explores the room, the apartment, the house which is inhabited by several tenants. The more mobile he becomes, the more his horizon expands; he discovers the playground and the football field. He starts to notice how differently the people around him behave. There’s often talk of where someone comes from, where they used to be before. Gradually, the outside world begins to intrude. War remains a constant presence. The war that has recently ended, with all its casualties, the injured men the boy bumps into on his daily round, and the new war that’s replaced it, the Cold War that’s beginning to overshadow the family’s life. The tone of this memoir is wistful and ironic, celebrating the magic of new beginnings without concealing the fear they inspire. It revives memories from oblivion, invoking attitudes long gone as it describes a child who is beginning to get a feel for the power of words early in life whilst making his own sense of the world from the stories he hears. »Gauss' imagery is laid out with immaculate narrative economy and linguistic restraint. As such, this book is reminiscent of Walter Benjamin's Berliner Kindheit um 1900; it may be lighter in tone, but by no means lightweight.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Zsolnay Verlag Memoir. 110 pages. Hardcover Publication date: July 2013 Karl-Markus Gauß born in 1954 in Salzburg, where he still lives. As well as being an acclaimed author, he is a contributor to and editor of the journal Literatur und Kritik. His books have been translated into many languages and won him numerous awards, including the Charles Veillon European Essay Prize, the Vilenica Prize for Central European Literature and the Georg-Dehio Book Award. His most recent publications at Zsolnay are Im Wald der Metropolen (2010) and Ruhm am Nachmittag (2012). »A Masterpiece« Die Furche Sales to Foreign Countries Im Wald der Metropolen: Poland (Czarne), Slovenia (Slovenska Matica) Die sterbenden Europäer: Catalonia (Simbol), Croatia (Fraktura), Macedonia (Templum), Romania (Humanitas), Slovenia (Cankarjeva), Sweden (Perenn), N O N - F I C T I O N 11 F O R E I G N R I G H T S HANSER
E C O N O M I C S H I S TO RY Brazil is vast and prosperous and aspires to be the new superpower. Journalist and self-appointed Brazilian Ruedi Leuthold journeys throughout the huge country, witnessing its different paces of life and incredible contrasts as he tries to track down the mysterious cohesive force uniting the country and its people. For decades, Gerd Ruge was one of Germany’s most popular foreign correspondents. In this book he looks back on memorable moments and formative encounters, describing the eventful life of an itinerant journalist – a life that was closely linked to global political developments during the years that followed World War II. Fisherman Joaquim was almost one of the lucky ones. He was on the point of cashing in on the big boom when his daughter Soccoro’s hair got caught in the camshaft of his boat’s engine and Joaquim had to sacrifice all he had to pay for years of treatment. As she healed, Soccoro discovered that there were hundreds of women in a similar position, and now she is a well-known Brazilian women’s rights activist. She is one of the many people Ruedi Leuthold meets on his travels. He tags along with Judge Nivaldo on her floating courthouse, calling at Amazonia’s remotest villages to resolve disputes, and he meets scientists who court danger as they work to save the rainforest from the avarice of the powerful cattle barons. Brazil once stood for the Samba, stylish football, poverty and corruption. All these things still exist, and when the country hosts the 2014 FIFA World Cup, the Brazilians will once again demonstrate that they’re no strangers to the carnival or the Beautiful Game. Leuthold concludes that while we can’t get to grips with Brazil by applying western standards, the country’s enthusiasm and joie de vivre is still as irresistible as ever. »Anyone who wants to understand the strange country that is Brazil will find Ruedi Leuthold’s book indispensable.« Erwin Koch Ruedi Leuthold Brasilien Der Traum vom Aufstieg Brazil Reaching for the Stars 208 pages. Hardcover Publication date: September 2013 Ruedi Leuthold was born in 1952 and has been a journalist and documentary filmmaker for 30 years. His work has won him the 2007 European Film Awards Civis and the 2008 prize for the best Germanlanguage travel report. He divides his time between Lucerne and Rio de Janeiro and writes for Die Zeit, GEO, Der Tagesspiegel and Das Magazin. Gerd Ruge has more than forty years’ experience reporting from different parts of the world and is considered a pioneering foreign correspondent. His main placements were the Soviet Union, the U.S. and China. In the aftermath of the Second World War he brought home the world to the German public, espousing an objective perspective on current affairs untainted by prejudice or ideology. A sharp-eyed political observer, he connected with people, listened to them patiently and invariably had a feel for the nuances – something for which his audience always appreciated him. This book records not only his meetings with big-name politicians like Robert Kennedy, Willy Brandt or Gorbachev, but also with ordinary citizens in towns and villages across the world. The result is a political autobiography with a broad vision; a narrative that allows the reader a close-up view of events, places and people crucial to the second half of the 20 th century. No. 5 of the Non-Fiction Bestseller List two weeks after publication! »In over forty years at the sharp end of the media, Gerd Ruge’s most outstanding attribute was his credibility – you believed every word he said. He acquired this aura of authority at the grassroots of journalism – along with that post-war generation of modern journalists who all shared an irrepressible curiosity about the world and a humanist attitude tempered with Anglo-Saxon pragmatism.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Gerd Ruge Unterwegs Politische Erinnerungen Under Way – a political memoir 336 pages with illustrations Hardcover Publication date: August 2013 Gerd Ruge was born in 1928. He worked as a correspondent for the ARD in Moscow and Washington, and for Die Welt in Beijing. He has published several books and received numerous awards for his journalistic work, including the Adolf Grimme Award and the Bavarian Television Award. Gerd Ruge lives in Munich. 12 N O N - F I C T I O N N O N - F I C T I O N 13 F O R E I G N R I G H T S HANSER F O R E I G N R I G H T S HANSER
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