George Thomas Clark Boeken

This Selected celebrates Scotland's most distinctive contemporary writer, a vivid minimalist, ruralist, and experimentalist.

Exploring the harrowing realities of human trafficking, the author conducts interviews with prostitutes across various cities, including Madrid and Mexico City, while engaging with detectives and social workers. These encounters reveal the struggles faced by individuals trapped in contemporary slavery, showcasing their resilience and the complex stories that emerge from their experiences. Through vivid narratives, the book sheds light on the darker aspects of society and the impact of exploitation on human lives.

The collection features a vibrant array of literary short stories that explore themes of history, love, human need, excess, and the final acts of life. Each narrative delves into the complexities of these themes, providing readers with rich, engaging tales that reflect on the human experience.

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Analysing the occasional verse writings of the celebrated colonial Mexican nun, Thomas brings to light the particular socio-historical significance of these works, which until now literary scholars have largely considered inconsequential. Thomas demonstrates how these poems by the famous nun-composed for birthdays, funerals, religious feasts, coronations and the like-shed new light on Sor Juana's interactions with individuals in colonial society and throughout the Spanish Empire.

Four book-length poems respond to the experience of walking in the wild landscapes of the highlands and islands of Scotland.

Pozoruhodný román, celý vyprávěný v "ich" formě všemi známými i méně známými protagonisty, kteří tvořili neblahou válečnou etapu německých dějin. Jako živé postavy v něm hovoří Hitler, Ludendorff, Goebbels, Göring, ale také Mimi Reiterová či Eva Braunová. Když konfrontujeme tuto neobvyklou formu s četnými faktografickými knihami, vydaných na stejné téma, pak musíme konstatovat, že styl, kdy postavy hovoří v první osobě, působí velice emotivně.