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By: Carina Blumenroth
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If you want to discover books outside of the bestseller lists, you will find them at small publishers.
Below we present three books to you.
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Your stack of books is thinning out and you want to read something that isn't on everyone's bedside table?
If you want to experience something new thematically, books from independent publishers might be something for you.
We put together a small selection of books for you.
What exactly is an independent publisher?
You can find books outside the mainstream in independent publishers.
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An independent publisher (also independent publisher) is a publisher that is not organized into a group.
Another definition is a little more emotional, said Maren Jungclaus from the NRW Literature Office in an earlier
Deutschlandfunk
interview: “This is a smaller publisher, with a certain niche program that doesn't resonate as much with the commercial wave.” So that these small publishers can imagine that For example, there are special slots and opportunities at book fairs where they can present new products or the like.
1. Melissa Febo’s “Girlhood” from Kjoner Verlag
Do you want to explore the topic of femininity?
Then the book “Girlhood” by Melissa Febos, translated from the American by Stefanie Jacobs, is something for you.
There are many important books about feminism.
But none of her authors have lived as many lives as Melissa Febos: a happy childhood on Cape Cod, addicted to heroin at the age of twenty, financing her studies as a dominatrix.
Today she leads a middle-class life with her wife and teaches at the university.
In her cult book "Girlhood," Melissa Febos explores the similarities in all phases of life to find out what wounds patriarchy inflicts on a woman's life.
How we expose them, how we heal them.
She finds disturbingly powerful examples of how women are conditioned from an early age to participate in their own degradation.
From misogynistic violence and bullying, from harassing, stalking, tension to the evolution of misinterpreted consent.
Blurb/Kjona Verlag
Melissa Febo's "Girlhood"
2023 Kjona Verlag, ISBN-13 978-3910372153
Price: Hardcover €23, e-book €16.99, 336 pages (different format)
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2. Katharina Volckmer “Hello, my name is Jimmie, what can I do for you?”
Disappointments and happiness are part of life, whether you want it or not.
It's good if you just take it with humor, right?
This is what the author Katharina Volckmer does, she presents the frustrations of everyday life and finds “painfully funny truths,” writes
März Verlag
.
Enter Jimmie: A chubby young man, the son of Italian immigrants, comes to work in a London call center.
For the rest of the day he will have to answer questions from a travel agency's customers: Why doesn't our room have a view?
Why is the minibar empty?
How are we supposed to tan seamlessly if we're not allowed to lie naked by the pool?
But Jimmie has other problems: Daniel, the curvy actor who has recently become his boss and who he really likes.
And so his commitment to his customers definitely lacks the necessary seriousness, which unfortunately doesn't go unnoticed by his manager Simon.
Fortunately, the motivation of his colleagues also leaves something to be desired: Wolf, the strange German with a missing toe;
Helen, the Catalan beauty;
and Elin, who dreams of opening a forest kindergarten.
Simon asks Jimmie to speak to him; the situation seems serious.
(...)
Blurb/March Publishing
Katharina Volckmer “Hello, my name is Jimmie, what can I do for you?”
Translated by Milena Adam
March 20, 2024 March Publisher, ISBN: 978-3-7550-0031-0
Price: 23.00 euros hardcover, 16.99 euros e-book
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3. Dilek Güngör “A for Ada”
Anyone who longs for connection and intimacy will be able to recognize themselves in “A for Ada”.
Sometimes everything is just a balancing act.
This is what the novel is about:
In her parents' language, Ada is called island.
Ada thinks she too is a deserted island.
Dealing with other people is often unpleasant for her;
It is difficult for her to judge when she should behave and how.
Ada wants to be loved, not by everyone, but definitely by others.
In “A for Ada,” Dilek Güngör poetically and humorously explores the relationships of her protagonist, from her kindergarten and school friendships to her own children and her husband.
Blurb/Criminal Publisher
Dilek Güngör “A for Ada”
2024 Criminal Publishing House, ISBN: 9783957325792
Price: 20.00 euros hardcover, 112 pages
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