Haus Publishing The Armchair Traveller january-june

Haus Publishing
The Armchair Traveller
january-june 2016

Publisher’s Note
When visitors to our bookshop, the bookHaus, ask me not only to recommend a
good read, but to choose my ‘favourite title’, I feel like a parent forced to pick a
favourite child. How can one choose between fiction and non-fiction, between
travel and history, between engaging your brain or your heart?
The books advertised in this catalogue will hopefully do both. There are
tales of friendship and the support it offers in our darkest days: in Two Gentlemen
on the Beach we are introduced to two historical figures, both of whom had
to battle with what one of them aptly called ‘his black dog days’. There are tales
of empathy with people who we have not even met, and as this empathy breeds
generosity we have pledged to donate part of the sales receipts of Kathmandu to
Aatmiya, a charity engaged in the long-term relief of the suffering caused by the
devastating April 2015 Nepal earthquake. And, finally, there are tales of travellers
of times gone by: Mount Sinai charts the stories connected to a mountain
sacred to all the People of the Book, especially relevant now the region is once
again removed from the beaten tourist track due to security risks that would
have been familiar to many a traveller described in its pages.
We also continue with our existing series, especially our thought-provoking
Haus Curiosities. Peter Hennessy’s Reflections: Conversations With Politicians
is the best example of the art of interviewing, which evokes both deep insights
into the past as well as inspiring visions of the future. And we are starting new
ones: the Modern Arabic Classics will introduce English-language readers to
great writing by authors from the MENA region which deserve to be part of the
classics canon of Arabic literature.
When read together with our recently published titles and our ever-growing
backlist, this catalogue is further proof of what for me is the beauty of books:
they transport the reader across time and place and establish bonds worth cherishing.
So please don’t ask me to choose a favourite; just pick one and enjoy.
Barbara Haus Schwepcke
Two Gentlemen
on the Beach
Michael Köhlmeier
On the face of it, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin – two icons of the twentieth
century – couldn’t be more different. One the statesman whose resolve led a nation in the
struggle against Nazi Germany, the other the world-famous comedian behind The Great
Dictator. But they are bound by a dark secret: both suffer from depression.
When a chance encounter reveals what they share, an unusual and unlikely friendship
ensues. A series of therapeutic meetings across the world, in Germany, England and
America, sees each become the other’s confidant as they talk of their ‘black dog days’.
With the eye of a masterfully subtle narrator, Michael Köhlmeier imagines a startling
friendship of unique understanding between this extraordinary pair; a friendship of the
twentieth century between art and politics, humour and seriousness, but which at heart
remains an understanding between two men – the poor tramp and the grand statesman –
who bring together the history of the century.
Michael Köhlmeier is an Austrian writer and musician. His works of fiction have met
with critical acclaim and his many awards include the Manès Sperber Prize for Literature
(1994) and Grimmelshausen Prize (1997).
NEW TITLE
Translated by Ruth Martin
£17.99 | FICTION
HBK, TRADE
MAY 2016
p: 978-1-910376-46-1
e: 978-1-910376-47-8
320pp
WORLD ENGLISH
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Kathmandu
Thomas Bell
Mount Sinai
A History of Travellers
and Pilgrims
George Manginis
£17.99 | HISTORY, TRAVEL
HBK, TRADE
FEBRUARY 2016
p: 978-1-910376-38-6
e: 978-1-910376-39-3
463pp
UK & NORTH AMERICA
£20 | HISTORY, TRAVEL
HBK, TRADE
MAY 2016
p: 978-1-910376-50-8
e: 978-1-910376-51-5
320pp
WORLD
Kathmandu is the greatest city of the Himalaya; a place where unique cultural practises
that died out in India a thousand years ago have survived. It is a carnival of sexual license
and hypocrisy, a jewel of world art, a hotbed of communist revolution, a paradigm of
failed democracy, a case study in bungled Western intervention, and an environmental
catastrophe.
Closed to the outside world until 1951 and trapped in a medieval time warp,
Kathmandu’s rapid modernisation is an extreme version of what is happening in many
traditional societies. The many layers of the city’s development are reflected in the
successive generations of its gods and goddesses, witches and ghosts, the comforts
of caste, the ethos of aristocracy and kingship, and the lately destabilising spirits of
consumer aspiration, individuality, egalitarianism, communism and democracy. Erudite,
entertaining and accessible, it is the fascinating chronicle of a unique city.
Thomas Bell studied at Oxford and the Courtauld Institute of Art before moving to
Kathmandu to cover the civil war in Nepal for the Daily Telegraph and The Economist. He
was later Southeast Asia correspondent for the Daily Telegraph.
Mount Sinai examines the history of Hagia Koryphe (in Greek) and Jabal Musa (in Arabic):
a mountain peak above the Monastery of St Catherine at South Sinai in Egypt. Known
for centuries as the place where Moses received the Ten Commandments from God, as
described in Exodus, the book explores the ways in which the landscape of the summit of
Mount Sinai was experienced and transformed, using textural criticism, historical analysis,
art history and, for the first time, archaelogical interpretation. Beginning in the third
century AD, when the identification of the Biblical ‘Mount Sinai’ was established, Mount
Sinai extends through to the early twentieth century. Covering the natural environment,
the Bedouin and early Christians, the importance of Mount Sinai in Muslim tradition, the
cult of St Catherine, pilgrimage, as well as the scholarly, artistic and tourist phenomenon
of the nineteenth century, Mount Sinai is a comprehensive and complete history of this
remarkable place.
George Manginis has taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies, the British
Museum, the Benaki Museum in Athens and the New College of the Humanities in
London. In 2013 he was the Stanley J Seeger Fellow at Princeton University
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We Buried the Past
MODERN ARABIC CLASSICS
Ascension to Death
MODERN ARABIC CLASSICS
Abdelkrim Ghallab
Translated by Roger Allen
Mamdouh Azzam
Translated by Max Weiss
£12.99 | FICTION
PBK, B-FORMAT
APRIL 2016
p: 978-1-910376-40-9
e: 978-1-910376-41-6
240pp
WORLD ENGLISH
£12.99 | FICTION
PBK, B-FORMAT
APRIL 2016
p: 978-1-910376-36-2
e: 978-1-910376-37-9
120pp
WORLD ENGLISH
This pioneering post colonial work, originally published in 1966, was the first breakthrough
Moroccan novel to be written in native Moroccan Arabic, rather than in French.
Written after the country gained independence, the story follows the trajectory of two
generations of al-Tihamis – a well-to-do family residing in Fez’s ancient medina – whose
members characterise distinctive aspects of Moroccan society, and whose lives reflect the
profound social changes taking place during the period. Bridging two worlds, We Buried
the Past begins during the quieter days of the late-colonial period; here we are introduced
to a world of seemingly timeless tradition, in which the al-Tihami household is presided
over by the family patriarch, al-Haj Muhammad, and where religion is unquestioned and
all-pervading. However, the coming upheaval, and imminent social transition, is reflected
through the lives of al-Haj’s three sons – in particular his second son, Abderrahman, who
will defy his father and come to symbolise the break between the old ways and the new.
Abdelkrim Ghallab is a Moroccan political journalist and novelist. He is the author of
five novels and three collections of short stories. In 2004 he was awarded the Maghreb
Culture Prize of Tunis. Ghallab’s novels have been translated into many languages.
Ascension to Death is a heartbreaking love story set against the backdrop of a conservative
Druze region of southern Syria. It recounts the story of an orphan girl named Salma who
falls in love with a boy from her village but is forced into an arranged marriage. Salma’s
fate is controlled by her tyrannical uncle and guardian, a powerful community leader
with connections to the government, who is only too pleased to unload the burden
of his brother’s daughter onto the first man to propose. A romantic tragedy, the novel
follows Salma’s attempt to escape with her lover, her family’s collusion with the authorities
against her, and her anguishing ordeal of imprisonment, torture and abandonment. Dark,
challenging and inventive, Ascension to Death is one of Syria’s most beloved novels of the
twentieth century. Originally published in 1987, and adapted into an acclaimed film in
1995, it is the first work of Mamdouh Azzam to be published in English.
Mamdouh Azzam is a Syrian novelist. His most celebrated and controversial novel is
The Palace of Rain (1998), a powerful and daring treatment of taboos in the conservative
Druze religion.
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Istanbul
City of Forgetting
and Remembering
Richard Tillinghast
Turkey Rediscovered
A Land Between
Tradition and Modernity
Klaus Reichert
Translated by Eugene H . Hayworth
£10 | TRAVEL LIT.
PBK, B-FORMAT
FEBRUARY 2016
p: 978-1-909961-14-2
e: 978-1-909961-15-9
280pp
WORLD
£12.99 | TRAVEL LIT.
HBK, 166 x 123 mm
JUNE 2016
p: 978-1-909961-08-1
e: 978-1-909961-09-8
120pp
WORLD ENGLISH
Starting with a wild taxi ride into town from Atatürk airport, Tillinghast takes his readers
Without a guide, driven only by his own curiosity, Klaus Reichert travels to Anatolia,
on a voyage of discovery through the storied city of Istanbul, known in Byzantine times as
Istanbul and the Aegean coast. He explores the strip of land where Adam and Eve are
the ‘Queen of Cities’ and to the Ottoman Turks as the ‘Abode of Felicity’. As comfortable
said to have settled after their expulsion from Eden and where Moses struck water from
talking about the distinctive and delicious Turkish cuisine as he is about Byzantine
a stone. He talks to an old stonemason and a young teacher, following in the footsteps of
mosaics, dervish ceremonies, Iznik ceramics, Anatolian carpets, and the imperial mosques,
the brilliant architect Mimar Sinan, and probes the mysteries of his mosques. He visits
Tillinghast illuminates Istanbul’s great buildings with stories that bring Ottoman and
one of the last remaining colonies of a rare breed of ibis and walks the wide expanses
Byzantine history to life and is adept at discovering both what the city remembers and
surrounding the archaeological sites of western Turkey. Finally, he draws parallels between
what it chooses to forget. Easily overlooked mosaics in the church of Hagia Sophia yield
kilim weaving, minimal music, and modernity as a whole. Under Klaus Reichert’s gaze,
stories of a Byzantine emperor who died playing polo while drunk and an empress with
what is seen, questioned and learned is compacted like warp and weft into colourful and
several husbands. From an obscure gravestone, the author brings to life the sacking of
provoking images and patterns. This is a book that uncovers hidden depths to a land we
Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade, when the Doge of Venice, though over ninety
thought we knew, but it shows that we have much to learn.
and practically blind, led the assault on the city.
Klaus Reichert, born in 1938, is a literary critic, author, translator and publisher. He
Richard Tillinghast is a poet and author. His poems have appeared in the Atlantic
taught English and American Literature at the University of Frankfurt and was president
Monthly, the New Republic and the New Yorker and his Finding Ireland: A Poet’s
of the German Academy for Language and Literature. He has written books on and
Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture was awarded ForeWord Magazine’s Book of
translated works by James Joyce, Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll and Virginia Woolf.
the Year Award for Travel Essays in 2008.
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King of Kings
The Triumph and Tragedy of
Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
Asfa-Wossen Asserate
Translated by Peter Lewis
£20 | BIOGRAPHY
HBK, ROYAL
NOVEMBER 2015
p: 978-1-910376-14-0
e: 978-1-910376-19-5
420pp | ILLUSTRATED
WORLD ENGLISH
The Prisoner
of Kathmandu
Brian Hodgson in Nepal 1820-43
Charles Allen
£20 | BIOGRAPHY
HBK, ROYAL
SEPTEMBER 2015
p: 978-1-910376-11-9
e: 978-1-910376-30-0
320pp | ILLUSTRATED
WORLD ENGLISH
He was a descendent of King Solomon and a forerunner of African unity and independence.
He fought with the Allies against the fascist Axis powers during the Second World War
and was the messiah of the Jamaican Rastafarians. He was a reformer and an autocratwho
was assassinated in a communist coup. Haile Selassie, the ‘King of Kings’, was an equally
formidable and iridescent figure, who is brilliantly portrayed by his great-nephew Asfa-
Wossen Asserate.
Asserate spent his childhood and adolescence in Ethiopia before fleeing the revolution
of 1974. He knew the emperor personally, and gained intimate insights into life at the
imperial court with its increasingly controversial politics. Due to his own experiences and
painstaking research in family and public archives, Asserate has achieved an exceedingly
colourful portrait of the emperor and the tumultuous history of Ethiopia.
Asfa-Wossen Asserate was born 1948 in Addis Ababa and read history and law at
Cambridge and at the University of Tübingen. He now lives in Frankfurt-am-Main. Asfa-
Wossen Asserate is the great-nephew of the last Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie.
Posted to Kathmandu in 1820 as a junior political officer, Brian Hodgson found himself
isolated and trapped in a fiercely xenophobic mountain kingdom that seemed bent on
making war on the all-powerful British East India Company. For twenty-three years
Hodgson struggled to keep the two sides apart. His legacy survives in the lasting peace
and friendship between Britain and Nepal.
At the heart of this biography is the Orientalist movement driven by the European
Enlightenment, which inspired Hodgson and others to devote themselves to the
exploration of Asian culture, leading Hodgson to study Tibetan and Nepalese Buddhism
and much else besides. Hodgson became a forgotten man in his own lifetime but this
biography re-establishes his importance as a pioneering natural historian and ethnologist,
revealing a tortured individual who turned adversity to his advantage as the prisoner who
learned to love his jail.
Charles Allen began his professional career as an oral historian with the BBC, making his
name with radio series and related books such as Plain Tales from the Raj. He is the author
of many acclaimed works of non-fiction, including The Buddha and Dr Führer.
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Night of
the Physicists
Operation Epsilon: Heisenberg, Hahn,
Weizsäcker and the German Bomb
Richard von Schirach
Translated by Simon Pare
£14.99 | HISTORY
AUGUST 2015
PBK, TRADE
p: 978-1-908323-85-9
e: 978-1-908323-86-6
280pp | ILLUSTRATED
WORLD ENGLISH
A Night in the
Emperor’s Garden
A True Story of Hope
and Resilience in Afghanistan
Qais Akbar Omar and
Stephen Landrigan
£14.99 | MEMOIR
HBK, TRADE
OCTOBER 2014
p: 978-1-910376-12-6
e: 978-1-910376-20-1
330pp | ILLUSTRATED
WORLD
In the spring of 1945 the Allies arrested the physicists they believed had worked on the
German nuclear programme during the war. Interned in an English country house, their
conversations were secretly recorded. MI6’s Operation Epsilon sought to determine how
close Nazi Germany had come to building an atomic bomb. It was in this remote setting
– Farm Hall, near Cambridge – that the German physicists first heard of the bombing of
Hiroshima.
August 6 1945 was a night that changed the course of history. The terrible weapon
unleashed on Japan caused unprecedented destruction and loss of life. That the Allies
had such a weapon at their disposal came as a great shock to the German scientists who
had worked under the assumption that the Allies knew nothing of nuclear fission. This is
the story of the wartime race to develop an atomic bomb, and the genius, guilt, complicity
and hubris of Nobel Prize-winning scientists working to create a weapon that would
undoubtedly have won the war for the Germans.
Richard von Schirach is a journalist, historian and the author of The Shadow of My Father
(2005).
In 2005, a group of Afghan actors searched for new opportunities to perform after years of
war and Taliban rule. One was a police detective and a widow determined to create images
of strong women. Another had trained at Kabul University before he fled to Pakistan as
a refugee. A third was a street beggar who had broken hearts around the world in the title
role of the award-winning film Osama, yet she barely knew how to read or write. Then
there was the middle-aged housewife whose life-long dreams of being an actress came at
an unspeakable price.
These actors, joined by a half-dozen others, enlisted a French actress visiting Kabul
as their director. For the next five months they worked tirelessly. They extended their
Afghan passion for poetry to encompass one of Shakespeare’s most lyrical plays, Love’s
Labour’s Lost, in their own Dari language. For the first time in thirty years, men and
women would appear on stage together. This is their story.
Qais Akbar Omar is the author of the internationally acclaimed memoir A Fort of Nine
Towers and is currently a Scholars at Risk Fellow at Harvard. Stephen Landrigan is a
playwright and former journalist for The Washington Post and BBC Radio.
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A Journey into Russia
Jens Mühling
Translated by Eugene H. Hayworth
£9.99 | TRAVEL
PBK, B FORMAT
SEPTEMBER 2015
p: 978-1-909961-12-8
e: 978-1-907973-97-0
320pp
WORLD ENGLISH
My House in Damascus
An Inside View of
the Syrian Revolution
Diana Darke
£9.99 | MEMOIR, SYRIA
PBK, B 129x198
JANUARY 2015
p: 978-1-908323-99-6
e: 978-1-908323-65-1
280pp | 2 MAPS
WORLD
‘To understand the ambiguities, contradictions, absurdities and complexities of the
Russian soul, the advice was always to read Gogol. The advice now would be to read
Mühling. There is a shock of discovery and a shot of pleasure on every page.’ –The Times
Ten years ago journalist Jens Mühling met Juri, a Russian television producer whose job
it was to sell stories to TV stations in Germany but who always maintained that ‘The true
stories are more unbelievable than anything I could invent.’ Ever since, Jens Mühling has
been travelling through Russia in search of stories that appear too unbelievable to be true:
a hermit from the Taiga who only recently found out that there was a world beyond the
woods, a priest who ventures into the exclusion zone around Chernobyl to preach to those
that stubbornly remain there, and many more.
Jens Mühling shows us a country whose customs, contradictions, absurdities and
attractions are still largely unknown beyond its borders.
Jens Mühling edited a German newspaper in Moscow and has been working for the Berlin
newspaper Der Tagesspiegel since 2005. His journalism has seen him awarded the Axel-
Springer-Preis and the Peter-Boenisch-Gedächtnispreis.
Drawing on the author’s firsthand knowledge of the country’s complex religious and
ethnic communities, My House in Damascus illuminates the darker recesses of Syria’s
history and politics. Diana Darke became deeply embedded in all levels of Syrian society
when she bought and restored a house in a mixed Sunni/Shi’a neighbourhood of the
walled Old City of Damascus.
In September 2012, as fighting intensified and millions were forced to flee their
homes, she offered her house as a sanctuary to Syrian friends. Up to thirty people continue
to find refuge there today. By following the author’s experiences inside Syria, the reader
will arrive at a clearer understanding of why the country remains locked in conflict and
why most ordinary Syrians are caught between a repressive government and a splintering
opposition.
Diana Darke has specialised in the Middle East for over thirty years, living and working
in a range of Arab countries. She is well known as an authority on Syria, contributing to
the Guardian, the Financial Times and the BBC’s From Our Own Correspondent, and is
the author of Bradt travel guides on Eastern Turkey, Syria and Northern Cyprus.
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Reflections
Conversations with Politicians
Peter Hennessy
and Robert Shepherd
The European Identity
Historical and Cultural
Realities We Cannot Deny
Stephen Green
£7.99 | HAUS CURIOSITIES
PBK, A FORMAT
MAY 2016
p: 978-1-910376-48-5
e: 978-1-910376-49-2
220pp
WORLD
£7.99 | HAUS CURIOSITIES
PBK, A FORMAT
SEPTEMBER 2015
p: 978-1-910376-17-1
e: 978-1-910376-29-4
120pp
WORLD
‘The historian’, wrote E.L. Doctorow, ‘will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell
you what it felt like.’ Reflections: Conversations with Politicians sees Peter Hennessy and
Robert Shepherd combine both with the art of the interviewer, a craft at once sensitive
and intrusive. Reflections collects the best interviews from the BBC Radio 4 series of the
same name, each ‘more of an interim biography of the interviewee than an excursion into
the combat zone with, one hopes, the occasional burst of now-it-can-be-told revelation.’
Reflections includes interviews with such political heavyweights as John Major, Clare
Short, Nigel Lawson, David Owen, Margaret Beckett, David Steel, Roy Hattersley, Neil
Kinnock, Norman Tebbit, Jack Straw and Shirley Williams.
Peter Hennessy was Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary,
University of London. He spent 20 years in journalism and as a presenter of the BBC
Radio 4’s Analysis. He sits as an independent crossbench peer in the House of Lords .
Robert Shepherd is a radio and television producer whose credits include BBC Radio
4’s The Prime Ministers and a fly-on-the wall documentary about the Foreign Office for
Channel 4. He has written political biographies and histories, including Westminster: A
Biography.
Is there any such thing as a European identity? Amidst all the kaleidoscopic variety what
– if anything – do 28 members of the European Union have in common? The facts of
history have created shared interests and cultural connections that are in the end more
important than the differences. We know we are different from Asia, and we are more
different from America than we – perhaps especially the British – think. So, amidst the
emergence of great powers and the globalisation of the 21 st century, Europe must discover
and define that common identity. This is a challenge for all the big states of the EU.
Europe clearly has something distinctive and vitally important to offer: it is the
experience of a unique journey through centuries of exploration and conflict, errors and
learnings, soul-searching and rebuilding. It is an experience of universal significance.
One way or another, the world will have to learn these lessons, and it will certainly be the
poorer if this European voice is not heard.
Stephen Green was an international banker and Minister for Trade and Investment
between 2011-13. He chairs the Natural History Museum, is an ordained priest of the
Church of England and sits as a Conservative peer in the House of Lords.
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The Kingdom to Come
Thoughts on the Union before and
after the Scottish referendum
Peter Hennessy
In The Kingdom to Come Peter Hennessy records the
‘[A] series of nifty essays – the thinking person’s commuting read’
Independent
Establishment
and Meritocracy
Peter Hennessy
£7.99
PBK, A FORMAT
p: 978-1-910376-06-5
e: 978-1-910376-23-2
220pp | WORLD
£7.99
PBK, A FORMAT
p: 978-1-910376-07-2
e: 978-1-910376-27-0
120pp | WORLD
run-up to the Scottish Independence Referendum of
September 2014, its immediate aftermath and describes
the enormous constitutional building site opened up for
the whole of the United Kingdom by the result. This work
of personal impressions examines the possible agenda for
the remaking of the constitution in the medium and long
term.
Commons and Lords
A Short Anthropology of Parliament
Emma Crewe
Based on anthropological fieldwork in the Lords and
House of Commons and constituencies, Commons and
Lords explains how relationships within the two Houses
are utterly different from their surface appearence. The
inevitable messiness of representative politics, and the
disappointment it brings, are both the virtue and the
weakness of parliamentary democracy. Emma Crewe looks
beneath the surface and uncovers its surprises and secrets.
Britain in a Perilous World
The Strategic Defence
and Security Review We Need
Jonathan Shaw
£7.99
PBK, A FORMAT
p: 978-1-908323-81-1
e: 978-1-908323-82-8
120pp | WORLD
£7.99
PBK, A FORMAT
p: 978-1-908323-77-4
e: 978-1-908323-78-1
140pp | WORLD
Greed
From Gordon Gekko
to David Hume
Stewart Sutherland
£7.99
PBK, A FORMAT
p: 978-1-908323-79-8
e: 978-1-908323-80-4
80pp | WORLD
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The Decision
A Novel
Britta Böhler
Translated by Jeanette K. Ringold
£14.99 | FICTION
HBK, B FOMAT
OCTOBER 2015
p: 978-1-910376-13-3
e: 978-1-910376-22-5
280pp
Cornflower Blue
Christian Schünemann
& Jelena Volić
Translated by Baida Dar
£12.99 | FICTION
PBK, TRADE
JULY 2015
p: 978-1-908323-96-5
e: 978-1-908323-97-2
320pp
WORLD ENGLISH
WORLD ENGLISH
This intriguing novel follows the German novelist Thomas Mann during three days in
1936. Away from home in Switzerland and fearing arrest on his return to Germany, Mann
is confronted with the decision of whether or not to go home. He decides to write an open
letter to the Nazi regime to be published in a Swiss newspaper, but is tortured by doubt:
his publisher in Germany, a Jew, will be furious with the unwelcome attention drawn to
his publishing house. By choosing exile isn’t he abandoning his loyal readers in Germany?
Will the Nazis burn his books? Will they confiscate his diaries full of his intimate, homoerotic
confessions?
Böhler shows Mann as a human soul, trapped in a historical setting that forces him
to make a seemingly impossible choice. These three days were only sparsely covered in
Mann’s diaries and The Decision fills this gap in the most compelling and convincing way.
Britta Böhler is a Dutch lawyer of German descent. She has represented Volkert van der
Graaf, the assassin of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and many others. A
member of the Dutch senate until 2011, she now teaches at Amsterdam University.
On the night of the 11th of July, two guards from a unit of elite Serbian soldiers are
making their rounds at the Topčider military camp. The next morning, they are found
dead. The military court issues an official report claiming that they were the victims of a
ritual suicide, and the investigation is promptly closed.
Lawyer Siniša Stojković is commissioned by the parents of the dead men to launch a
private investigation. He asks his old friend, Milena Lukin, a specialist in international
law, for her assistance. But her investigations start to irritate certain individuals, and
soon she is in grave danger. A dreadful suspicion begins to build: it seems that the guards
saw something they shouldn’t have seen. Could it have had something to do with the
anniversary of the worst massacre in European history since World War II?
Christian Schünemann, born in 1968, is a journalist who has worked in Moscow and
Bosnia-Herzegovina. He received the Helmut Stegmann Prize for Journalism in 2001.
Jelena Volić is an academic, lecturing in Modern German Literature. She divides her time
between Belgrade and Berlin.
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Literary Traveller’s and Armchair Traveller’s Histories series
Rilke’s Venice
Birgit Haustedt
£9.99
978-1-905791-40-8
Sailing by Starlight
Alex Capus
£9.99
p: 978-1-906598-78-5
e: 978-1-907973-45-1
The English Garden
Hans von Trotha
£9.99
978-1-906598-20-4
In Byron’s Footsteps
Tessa de Loo
£9.99
p: 978-1-906598-77-8
e: 978-1-907973-42-0
Dickens: London into Kent
Peter Clark
£9.99
p: 978-1-907973-80-2
e:978-1-907973-83-3
Lady Chatterley’s Villa
Richard Owen
£12.99
p: 978-1-907973-98-7
e: 978-1-907973-99-4
An Armchair Traveller’s
History of Istanbul
Richard Tillinghast
£12.99
p: 978-1-907973-21-5
e: 978-1-907822-50-6
An Armchair Traveller’s
History of Cambridge
Richard Tames
£12.99
p: 978-1-907973-77-2
e: 978-1-907973-47-5
The Princes’ Islands
Joachim Sartorius
£9.99
p: 978-1-907973-00-0
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