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Das Echo des Schweigens

A twisty, jaw-dropping psychological thriller that unravels a mother's worst nightmare—that her child is capable of terrible violence—when her teenage son becomes a suspect in the murder of two classmates, from the author of The Deepest Lake. “Timely and terrifyingly real, What Boys Learn is not to be missed.”—Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of It's Not Her Over one terrible weekend, two teenage girls are found dead in a wealthy Chicago suburb. As the community mourns, Abby Rosso, the girls’ high school counselor, begins to suspect that her son was secretly involved in their lives—and possibly, their deaths. Abby doesn’t want to believe Benjamin hurt anyone. But she’s seen the warning signs before. Two decades ago, her brother was imprisoned for a disturbing crime—he was only a little older than Benjamin is now. And Abby has more troubling memories from her own adolescence that confirm what boys and men are capable of. As Abby searches for the truth about what happened to her students, she’s forced to face the question: Has she been making excuses for Benjamin all these years? Swirling with sharp questions about family and masculinity, What Boys Learn unravels a mother’s worst fears.

A twisty, jaw-dropping psychological thriller that unravels a mother's worst nightmare—that her child is capable of terrible violence—when her teenage son becomes a suspect in the murder of two classmates, from the author of The Deepest Lake. “Timely and terrifyingly real, What Boys Learn is not to be missed.”—Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of It's Not Her Over one terrible weekend, two teenage girls are found dead in a wealthy Chicago suburb. As the community mourns, Abby Rosso, the girls’ high school counselor, begins to suspect that her son was secretly involved in their lives—and possibly, their deaths. Abby doesn’t want to believe Benjamin hurt anyone. But she’s seen the warning signs before. Two decades ago, her brother was imprisoned for a disturbing crime—he was only a little older than Benjamin is now. And Abby has more troubling memories from her own adolescence that confirm what boys and men are capable of. As Abby searches for the truth about what happened to her students, she’s forced to face the question: Has she been making excuses for Benjamin for years? Swirling with sharp questions about family and masculinity, What Boys Learn unravels a mother’s worst fears.

What Boys Learn

Opfer, Täterinnen, Schlüsselfiguren: Die Frauen in der Mafia&nbsp;Roberto Saviano wirft einen völlig neuen Blick auf die Mafia - und erzählt die bisher unbekannte Geschichte der FrauenErstmals ein Buch über die Rolle der Frauen in der Mafia - Roberto Saviano zeigt, wie die Strukturen und Werte des organisierten Verbrechens das Liebes- und Familienleben bestimmen. Packend erzählt "Treue" von realen Frauen in der Mafia: beispielsweise von Maria Grazia Conte, deren heimlicher Sohn mit einem Mafiaboss ihr zum Verhängnis wird. Von Vincenzina Marchese, durch deren erzwungene Heirat der Frieden zwischen zwei rivalisierenden Mafiafamilien besiegelt werden soll. Und von Anna Carrino, die die Geschäfte ihres Mannes übernimmt, während er im Gefängnis sitzt - bis sie von seiner heimlichen Geliebten erfährt und auspackt.&nbsp;Saviano gibt einmalige Einblicke in weibliche Schicksale in der männlich dominierten Welt der Mafia.

Roberto Saviano wirft einen völlig neuen Blick auf die Mafia – und erzählt die bisher unbekannte Geschichte der FrauenErstmals ein Buch über die Rolle der Frauen in der Mafia – Roberto Saviano zeigt, wie die Strukturen und Werte des organisierten Verbrechens das Liebes- und Familienleben bestimmen. Packend erzählt „Treue“ von realen Frauen in der Mafia: beispielsweise von Maria Grazia Conte, deren heimlicher Sohn mit einem Mafiaboss ihr zum Verhängnis wird. Von Vincenzina Marchese, durch deren erzwungene Heirat der Frieden zwischen zwei rivalisierenden Mafiafamilien besiegelt werden soll. Und von Anna Carrino, die die Geschäfte ihres Mannes übernimmt, während er im Gefängnis sitzt – bis sie von seiner heimlichen Geliebten erfährt und auspackt.&nbsp;Saviano gibt einmalige Einblicke in weibliche Schicksale in der männlich dominierten Welt der Mafia.

Liebe, Begehren und Verrat – die Frauen in der Mafia

Treue

Narco-crimes, Narco-forensics, and National Security

Palgrave's Critical Policing Studies

<div>“The book’s focus on institutional harm is a refreshing approach, overcoming the customary focus on individual responsibility to foreground how the historic processes of racialized policing continue to undermine the everyday lives of Black British peoples including their ability to integrate. This study crosses disciplinary boundaries giving it wide appeal beyond academia, to include activists, policymakers, teachers, and anyone with an interest in understanding what it means to be criminalized and surveilled.”</div>
<div>-Dr Esmorie J. Miller, Lancaster University, School of Sciences, UK</div>
This book explores the historical and contemporary policing of Black communities in Britain, revealing how much has — and hasn’t — changed. Drawing on 58 interviews with young people, elders, and community workers in a heavily policed North London neighbourhood, it offers a powerful, intergenerational account of racialised policing and its everyday consequences. Through an intersectional lens, it examines how race, gender, class, and place overlap to shape Black Britons’ encounters with police and their sense of belonging. Through the voices of those most affected, the book traces how these experiences have produced enduring cultural narratives of mistrust, resistance, and exclusion. Exposing how policing continues to racialise and criminalise certain communities designated suspect status, it connects these practices to the legacies of empire and the politics of othering. It concludes by considering what these histories mean for the present and future of police-community relations and offers practical recommendations for building trust, accountability, and justice.
Bisi Akintoye is Lecturer at University of Roehampton, UK, and a solicitor whose research focuses on the intersection between race, drugs, policing, and youth experiences.

This book explores the historical and contemporary policing of Black communities in Britain, revealing how much has — and hasn’t — changed. Drawing on 58 interviews with young people, elders, and community workers in a heavily policed North London neighbourhood, it offers a powerful, intergenerational account of racialised policing and its everyday consequences. Through an intersectional lens, it examines how race, gender, class, and place overlap to shape Black Britons’ encounters with police and their sense of belonging. Through the voices of those most affected, the book traces how these experiences have produced enduring cultural narratives of mistrust, resistance, and exclusion. Exposing how policing continues to racialise and criminalise certain communities designated suspect status, it connects these practices to the legacies of empire and the politics of othering. It concludes by considering what these histories mean for the present and future of police-community relations and offers practical recommendations for building trust, accountability, and justice.

The Long Shadow

Black Britons, Race, and Policing

It was the deadliest terrorist attack of the twentieth century, a bombing which shocked the world. But was the wrong person found guilty?December 21, 1988. All flights between London and New York are full, except for Pan Am 103, where almost half the seats are empty. Thirty-eight minutes after take-off, as the plane flies over the tiny Scottish village of Lockerbie, a bomb explodes in the hull. All 259 people aboard perish.The attack is not a surprise - American diplomats had been warned not to fly with Pan Am - but the flight goes ahead. Eleven years later, a Libyan national is convicted of orchestrating the attack, a judgement which has been increasingly questioned and scrutinized due to its political implications and the fact that no physical evidence was found to tie the man to the crime.In late 2022, journalist Jan Stocklassa is trawling through the late Stieg Larsson's archive of documents when he discovers that the world-famous crime author had been investigating the Lockerbie bombing prior to his death, and he picks up the trail. Who was really behind the terrorist attack? Was it just a coincidence that the flight was half-empty that day? And who stands to benefit the most from the truth being buried all these years?Full of intrigue, scandal and drama, The Man Who Fell From The Sky is a breathless rollercoaster which lifts the lid on a real-life international conspiracy, a deadly plot, and one man's relentless fight for the truth.

The CIA, Lockerbie and the Hunt for the Truth

The Man Who Fell From The Sky

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A cult classic and Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, this sharp, insightful novel by New Yorker contributor Han Ong explores racial and social hierarchy, personal identity, and alienation. William Paulinha—a resourceful gay Filipino sex worker barely getting by in New York—is determined to turn his life around when he crosses paths with Shem C., an on-the-rise author now disgraced and exiled from both his marriage and the city’s literary inner circle. Furious at the world that cast him out, Shem finds in the intelligent and pliable William the perfect accomplice for his plans. Under Shem’s tutelage, William reinvents himself as “Master Chao,” an enigmatic Feng Shui consultant catering to New York’s wealthiest and most self-satisfied classes. As doors swing open and fortunes are arranged and rearranged, William is pulled ever deeper into the private anxieties and secret desires of the powerful, discovering just how much people will pay to believe that even their moral rot can be purified and saved. Blending razor-sharp satire with tenderness and psychological insight, Fixer Chao traces a dazzling ascent built on illusion and audacious transformation. By turns funny, devastating, and electrifying, Ong’s writing asks what it takes to remake oneself in America—and what, if anything, remains when the performance finally ends.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A cult classic and Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, this sharp, insightful novel by New Yorker contributor Han Ong explores racial and social hierarchy, personal identity, and alienation. William Paulinha—a resourceful gay Filipino sex worker barely getting by in New York—is determined to turn his life around when he crosses paths with Shem C., an on-the-rise author now disgraced and exiled from both his marriage and the city’s literary inner circle. Furious at the world that cast him out, Shem finds in the intelligent and pliable William the perfect accomplice for his plans. Under Shem’s tutelage, William reinvents himself as “Master Chao,” an enigmatic Feng Shui consultant catering to New York’s wealthiest and most self-satisfied classes. As doors swing open and fortunes are arranged and rearranged, William is pulled ever deeper into the private anxieties and secret desires of the powerful, discovering just how much people will pay to believe that even their moral rot can be purified and saved. Blending razor-sharp satire with tenderness and psychological insight, Fixer Chao traces a dazzling ascent built on illusion and audacious transformation. By turns funny, devastating, and electrifying, Ong’s writing asks what it takes to remake oneself in America—and what, if anything, remains when the performance finally ends.

A Novel

Fixer Chao

Crónica del surgimiento, desarrollo y transformaciones del Cártel de las drogas más peligroso de México. El cártel de Sinaloa explica y detalla el mundo del narco: desde los pioneros del negocio como Pedro Avilés, los sicarios desalmados que matan gobernadores como el Gitano, policías corruptos al estilo Guillermo González Calderoni, hasta hechos sorprendentes como la expulsión masiva de chinos durante la segunda década del siglo XX, las primeras rutas trasnacionales de la cocaína, o la fuga de Joaquín el Chapo Guzmán. Aquí todos cuentan su versión sobre el lucrativo tráfico de drogas en Sinaloa, que es la historia misma del narcotráfico en México. Este libro da voz al hijo de un narcotraficante que relata cómo es vivir con ese estigma; también aparece un abogado de la mafia que abre puertas de tribunales y prisiones de máxima seguridad; soldados oaxaqueños que erradican cultivos de mariguana en la sierra de Badiraguato; un comandante guerrillero del ERPI en Guerrero, o un político y empresario millonario de San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León. Todos ellos son piezas clave en el mundo del narco y aquí ofrecen testimonios reveladores. La PGR, la DEA y el Ejército mexicano lo hacen a través de expedientes oficiales, algunos publicados por primera vez en este libro. Se da a conocer asimismo la versión directa de capos como Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, el Jefe de Jefes, cuyos escritos de puño y letra acusan a las autoridades de ser las auténticas responsables de crear y organizar la distribución de los llamados cárteles. Diego Enrique Osorno, a través de una ágil narración periodística, nos ofrece el más completo panorama del cártel fundacional del narcotráfico y uno de los más poderosos que han existido en México. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONA chronicle of the rise, development, and transformations of Mexico's most dangerous drug cartel. The Sinaloa Cartel explains and details the world of drug trafficking: from the pioneers of the business such as Pedro Avilés, the ruthless sicarios who kill governors like "El Gitano," corrupt police officers in the style of Guillermo González Calderoni, to surprising events such as the mass expulsion of Chinese immigrants during the second decade of the twentieth century, the first transnational cocaine routes, and the escape of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. Here, everyone tells their version of the lucrative drug trade in Sinaloa, which is the very history of drug trafficking in Mexico. This book gives voice to the son of a drug trafficker who recounts what it is like to live with that stigma; it also features a mafia lawyer who opens doors in courtrooms and maximum-security prisons; Oaxacan soldiers who eradicate marijuana crops in the mountains of Badiraguato; a guerrilla commander from the ERPI in Guerrero; and a wealthy politician and businessman from San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León. All of them are key players in the world of narcotrafficking, and here they offer revealing testimonies. The PGR, the DEA, and the Mexican Army also speak through official files, some published for the first time in this book. The direct version of kingpins such as Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, the "Boss of Bosses," is also made known-his handwritten accounts accuse the authorities of being the true architects behind the creation and organization of the so-called cartels. Through agile journalistic narration, Diego Enrique Osorno offers the most complete overview of the foundational cartel of Mexican drug trafficking and one of the most powerful to ever exist in Mexico.

El Cártel de Sinaloa / The Sinaloa Cartel

Für Eskalationen bei Versammlungen oder Veranstaltungen, bei denen eine Vielzahl von Menschen zusammenkommt, gibt es oft alltagsplausible Erklärungen. Doch viele dieser vermeintlich deterministischen Ursachen, Zusammenhänge oder Rollenzuschreibungen sind widerlegt oder zu stark verkürzt. Dies kann bei allen Beteiligten zu Fehlinterpretationen, negativen Stereotypisierungen und letztlich zu nicht optimalen Entscheidungen führen. Insbesondere bei großen Menschenmengen kann dies schwerwiegende Folgen haben: Die Lage kann eskalieren, in Ausschreitungen sowie blanker Gewalt münden. Ziel dieses Buches ist es, einen Überblick über internationale Good-Practice-Ansätze zu geben, wie in einem demokratischen Rechtsstaat der Umgang mit Menschenmengen gestaltet sein sollte.
Für die 2. Auflage wurden alle Inhalte aktualisiert und wesentlich erweitert.&nbsp;Dazu konnten Autoren und Autorinnen aus Deutschland, Österreich, der Schweiz, den Niederlanden, Frankreich, Großbritannien und den USA gewonnen werden. Bezogen auf die Praxiserfahrungen werden wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse u. a. aus Soziologie, Psychologie, Kriminologie, Technik, Ethik und Recht interdisziplinär aufgearbeitet und anhand zahlreicher praktischer Beispiele beleuchtet.

Für Eskalationen bei Versammlungen oder Veranstaltungen, bei denen eine Vielzahl von Menschen zusammenkommt, gibt es oft alltagsplausible Erklärungen. Doch viele dieser vermeintlich deterministischen Ursachen, Zusammenhänge oder Rollenzuschreibungen sind widerlegt oder zu stark verkürzt. Dies kann bei allen Beteiligten zu Fehlinterpretationen, negativen Stereotypisierungen und letztlich zu nicht optimalen Entscheidungen führen. Insbesondere bei großen Menschenmengen kann dies schwerwiegende Folgen haben: Die Lage kann eskalieren, in Ausschreitungen sowie blanker Gewalt münden.
 
 Ziel dieses Buches ist es, einen Überblick über internationale Good-Practice-Ansätze zu geben, wie in einem demokratischen Rechtsstaat der Umgang mit Menschenmengen gestaltet sein sollte.
 Für die 2. Auflage wurden alle Inhalte aktualisiert und wesentlich erweitert.&nbsp;Dazu konnten Autoren und Autorinnen aus Deutschland, Österreich, der Schweiz, den Niederlanden, Frankreich, Großbritannien und den USA gewonnen werden. Bezogen auf die Praxiserfahrungen werden wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse u. a. aus Soziologie, Psychologie, Kriminologie, Technik, Ethik und Recht interdisziplinär aufgearbeitet und anhand zahlreicher praktischer Beispiele beleuchtet.

Theorie und Praxis

Die Rolle der Polizei bei Versammlungen

The London Trilogy

“The angsty, sexy historical romance of my dreams.”—Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author Includes a foreword by Ali Hazelwood, #1 New York Times bestselling author From the superbly gifted Sherry Thomas comes this beautifully written romance about a marriage of convenience that turns inconveniently passionate... Felix Rivendale, the Marquess of Wrenworth, is The Ideal Gentleman, a man all men want to be and all women want to possess. Even Felix himself almost believes this golden image. But underneath is a damaged soul soothed only by public adulation. Louisa Cantwell needs to marry well to support her sisters. She does not, however, want Lord Wrenworth—though he seems inexplicably interested in her. She mistrusts his outward perfection, and the praise he garners everywhere he goes. Still, when he is the only man to propose at the end of the London season, she reluctantly accepts. Louisa does not understand her husband’s mysterious purposes, but she cannot deny the pleasure her body takes in his touch. Nor can she deny the pull this magnetic man exerts upon her. But does she dare to fall in love with a man so full of dark secrets, any one of which could devastate her, if she were to get any closer?

The Luckiest Lady in London

“Insanely big-hearted.” —The Washington Post “Electric.” —The New York Times “Tender, immersive, and thrilling." —Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow "One of the best novels I’ve ever read about friendship.” —Stephen King, #1 bestselling author In this story of intense friendship and grit, two down-and-out teens escape their lives and chase a different future through rock-climbing -- from the New York Times bestselling author of My Absolute Darling. Dan and Tamma are two teenagers in their last year of high school in the southern Mojave Desert. One is a gifted golden child, the other a mouthy burnout. Climbing boulders in trash-strewn parking lots during cold desert nights, they seal their unique bond and dream of a life of adventure. As the year progresses and adult reality looms, they are rocked by change and pulled apart by irreconcilable obligations. Differences of class, talent, and prospects take on new importance; options dwindle, and their decisions grow ever more consequential and perilous. It feels inevitable, finally, that something must give. With a magnificent gift for nature writing and a joyful appreciation for the redemptive power of friendship, Gabriel Tallent gives readers a rollicking, adrenaline-filled, and soul-searching novel about risking everything to change your life.

“Insanely big-hearted.” —The Washington Post “Electric.” —The New York Times “Tender, immersive, and thrilling." —Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow "One of the best novels I’ve ever read about friendship.” —Stephen King, #1 bestselling author In this story of intense friendship and grit, two down-and-out teens escape their lives and chase a different future through rock-climbing -- from the New York Times bestselling author of My Absolute Darling. Dan and Tamma are two teenagers in their last year of high school in the southern Mojave Desert. One is a gifted golden child, the other a mouthy burnout. Climbing boulders in trash-strewn parking lots during cold desert nights, they seal their unique bond and dream of a life of adventure. As the year progresses and adult reality looms, they are rocked by change and pulled apart by irreconcilable obligations. Differences of class, talent, and prospects take on new importance; options dwindle, and their decisions grow ever more consequential and perilous. It feels inevitable, finally, that something must give. With a magnificent gift for nature writing and a joyful appreciation for the redemptive power of friendship, Gabriel Tallent gives readers a rollicking, adrenaline-filled, and soul-searching novel about risking everything to change your life.

Crux

"A dark valentine of a novel." --TIME Magazine "A sly subversion and exemplar of the [romance] form."&nbsp;--The New York Times A big-hearted, wise, unceasingly buoyant love story about a woman who, after escaping a bruising marriage, theorizes that happiness is possible solely with the eradication of all romance--only to find someone that could change her life forever Sylvie Broder was taught early to embrace joy. The granddaughter of Holocaust survivors whose greatest priority was enjoying the life they'd snatched back from Hitler, Sylvie believes in the tenacious pursuit of pleasure—yet, somehow, finds herself trapped in a suffocating, emotionally abusive marriage. With enormous fortitude, Sylvie frees herself and turns to graduate school, where she develops a new philosophy: Straight women will find true liberation and happiness only once romance is eradicated. Now, Sylvie prides herself in separating sex from tenderness—having fun with men, but never committing to one. Then she meets Robbie and Abie, and finds her philosophy sorely tested. A warm and gentle man, Robbie treats Sylvie with patience and enormous kindness, offering her comfort she hasn't had since childhood. Abie is passionate and dynamic, a man who challenges Sylvie, and with whom she finds herself constantly disarmed. With both men, she feels a deep desire that looks, worryingly, a lot like love. Cleverly constructed, delightfully funny, and beautifully written, The End of Romance is an anti-romance romance novel that charts its fallible heroine's tumultuous journey to love and happiness with erudition and deep feeling—a story for anyone who, despite their very best efforts, has fallen in love, and wondered why.

"A dark valentine of a novel." --TIME Magazine "A sly subversion and exemplar of the [romance] form."&nbsp;--The New York Times A big-hearted, wise, unceasingly buoyant love story about a woman who, after escaping a bruising marriage, theorizes that happiness is possible solely with the eradication of all romance--only to find someone that could change her life forever Sylvie Broder was taught early to embrace joy. The granddaughter of Holocaust survivors whose greatest priority was enjoying the life they'd snatched back from Hitler, Sylvie believes in the tenacious pursuit of pleasure—yet, somehow, finds herself trapped in a suffocating, emotionally abusive marriage. With enormous fortitude, Sylvie frees herself and turns to graduate school, where she develops a new philosophy: Straight women will find true liberation and happiness only once romance is eradicated. Now, Sylvie prides herself in separating sex from tenderness—having fun with men, but never committing to one. Then she meets Robbie and Abie, and finds her philosophy sorely tested. A warm and gentle man, Robbie treats Sylvie with patience and enormous kindness, offering her comfort she hasn't had since childhood. Abie is passionate and dynamic, a man who challenges Sylvie, and with whom she finds herself constantly disarmed. With both men, she feels a deep desire that looks, worryingly, a lot like love. Cleverly constructed, delightfully funny, and beautifully written, The End of Romance is an anti-romance romance novel that charts its fallible heroine's tumultuous journey to love and happiness with erudition and deep feeling—a story for anyone who, despite their very best efforts, has fallen in love, and wondered why.

The End of Romance

George Lamming—one of the Caribbean’s most powerful literary voices, championed by Richard Wright and Jean-Paul Sartre—reimagines the age of European exploration in a work that stands as one of the great political novels of the twentieth century Under imperial orders, a nameless Commandant sets sail sometime between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, bound for the legendary island of San Cristobal—a place whispered about in maps and myths, promised as a prize of empire. The voyage is meant to secure glory and dominion. Instead, it begins to unravel. As weeks at sea stretch into obsession, the expedition becomes a dangerous test of authority and belief. The Commandant’s power is absolute yet increasingly fragile; his crew is caught between obedience and doubt. What begins as a mission of discovery turns into a voyage haunted by fear, desire, and the unspoken violence at the heart of conquest. Told through shifting perspectives and charged with poetic intensity, Natives of My Person plunges readers inside the imperial imagination at the moment it begins to crack. George Lamming transforms the historical voyage into a gripping psychological drama—one that exposes the ambitions, illusions, and brutal consequences of empire. Urgent, unsettling, and fiercely original, Natives of My Person, Lamming’s masterpiece, reveals how conquest reshapes not only the world, but the minds that seek to rule it. “George Lamming is not so much a novelist as a chronicler of secret journeys to the innermost regions of the West Indian psyche. . . an uninhibited journey to the heart of the colonizer.” —The New York Times

George Lamming—one of the Caribbean’s most powerful literary voices, championed by Richard Wright and Jean-Paul Sartre—reimagines the age of European exploration in a work that stands as one of the great political novels of the twentieth century Under imperial orders, a nameless Commandant sets sail sometime between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, bound for the legendary island of San Cristobal—a place whispered about in maps and myths, promised as a prize of empire. The voyage is meant to secure glory and dominion. Instead, it begins to unravel. As weeks at sea stretch into obsession, the expedition becomes a dangerous test of authority and belief. The Commandant’s power is absolute yet increasingly fragile; his crew is caught between obedience and doubt. What begins as a mission of discovery turns into a voyage haunted by fear, desire, and the unspoken violence at the heart of conquest. Told through shifting perspectives and charged with poetic intensity, Natives of My Person plunges readers inside the imperial imagination at the moment it begins to crack. George Lamming transforms the historical voyage into a gripping psychological drama—one that exposes the ambitions, illusions, and brutal consequences of empire. Urgent, unsettling, and fiercely original, Natives of My Person, Lamming’s masterpiece, reveals how conquest reshapes not only the world, but the minds that seek to rule it. “George Lamming is not so much a novelist as a chronicler of secret journeys to the innermost regions of the West Indian psyche. . . an uninhibited journey to the heart of the colonizer.” —The New York Times

Natives of My Person

SOKO COLD CASE Bergisches Land

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