Wie ben ik? En vooral, wie zijn wij samen, als mensheid? In deze bundel met de beste verhalen en gedichten van de El Hizjra Literatuurprijs van 2013 - 2015 worden nieuwe en oude werelden opgegraven. Personages ondernemen zoektochten naar het verleden, reizen naar andere landen of continenten of komen familiegeschiedenissen op het spoor. De lezer wordt meegenomen naar Tanger, Jemen en vele andere plekken, maar de auteurs in deze bundel tonen vooral ook een Nederland door andere ogen gezien. El...

A handful of families, several generations, more than a few wars. Moscow, Kabul, Barcelona. Anna Nemzer announces herself on the literary scene boldly and loudly with this debut novel about the insane, unspeakable nature of war, about human fears, treachery, lies, fateful coincidences and destinies during warfare, when there is no room left for love.The protagonists survived the war and are rescued from captivity. They are not able, however, to leave the experiences of the war behind them and...

Towards the end of World War II, a Belarusian soldier and an Italian girl escape from a Nazi concentration camp. The soldier wonders if he should get rid of the girl; she is a burden and is slowing him down. However, he cannot bring himself to abandon her in the snowy wilderness. Somewhere along the way, the two develop feelings for each other, but their love is not destined to grow beyond the edge of the mountains. Yet their bond cannot be denied, and in the end it proves stronger than death...

Moscow in the 1930s: A Novel from the Archives reveals Moscow as it was in a bygone age, a city now found only on old maps, but an era that continues to haunt us today. The novel features a wide cast of characters, who are all tied together by the author herself.The reader plunges into the remarkable Moscow literary scene of those days, and literature aficionados will encounter within a number of important locations for the history of Russian letters: the Dobrov house, Peredelkino, Lavrushins...