Imagine you are a gay man approaching mid-life in the Silicon Valley: disillusioned, unhappy, bored with life. You have a monotonous job and can count your friends on one hand; you have given up on finding love for good. Along comes the perfect man: an Australian hunk. He is intelligent, witty, suave, well-bred and stunningly good-looking. Only problem: he is straight. Nevertheless a friendship develops based on a common interest in fitness, books, philosophical speculation... and a strange sexual tension. He makes you a witness to his conquests of women. Step by step he gains control over...
Imagine you are a gay man approaching mid-life in the Silicon Valley: disillusioned, unhappy, bored with life. You have a monotonous job and can count...
No doubt you have heard of Casanova, the famous womanizer, and maybe you've seen the movie, or read the account of his life. But did you know he may have had a gay brother? Benedetto, a few years Giacomo's junior, was pressed into service of the Church, to follow the famous lover of women through the courts of Europe. On the way he had amorous adventures with countless men, but, unlike his brother, fell in love and kept alive a romantic relationship with a strapping German soldier over time and distance. Benedetto Casanova's (fictional) memoirs were discovered only in 1881, when an English...
No doubt you have heard of Casanova, the famous womanizer, and maybe you've seen the movie, or read the account of his life. But did you know he may h...
A Stranger in Triva is an ingenious cycle of stories about gay men and their lives. Each story offers a glimpse into a relationship, from Russia and India a century ago; in Asia, the US and Mexico today. These stories speak of love and devotion, of longing and erotic pleasure, but also of responsibility, of honor, and of deceit. As the reader travels from story to story, a magical narrative emerges which connects all the protagonists in the book across space and time. Marten Weber has created a cohesive work with incredible depth that will forever change your mind about what gay story-telling...
A Stranger in Triva is an ingenious cycle of stories about gay men and their lives. Each story offers a glimpse into a relationship, from Russia and I...
Marten Weber's Gabriel is a complex tale of innocence lost and love won. Against the backdrop of a rising China, we witness culture shock and racism, cruelty and greed, while also gaining a fascinating insight into the world of diplomacy and big business. Overwhelmed by the world around them, two men lose everything they believe in, in order to find each other. This fantastic tale of a modern-day angel is a parable of human avarice and selfishness, a political thriller, a story of self-discovery, but ultimately a simple love story.
Marten Weber's Gabriel is a complex tale of innocence lost and love won. Against the backdrop of a rising China, we witness culture shock and racism, ...
Sometime at the beginning of the last century, Jeremiah Hudgejaw, American business magnate and socialite, is returning from England with his daughter Vivian. A boisterous monomaniac, he has a few peculiarities that guarantee a humorous crossing aboard the RMS Noricum: for one, he is a moralist, and nothing rails him more than the lavender menace-an interesting quirk for someone with an inability to distinguish between genders. At the same time, he fights for women's equality and despises the English class system. Joining him on this highly entertaining voyage are a young Australian and his...
Sometime at the beginning of the last century, Jeremiah Hudgejaw, American business magnate and socialite, is returning from England with his daughter...
In a street in Zurich, a man stands confused and bewildered. There's the bank he needs to go to, and in the hotel, a man who claims to be his husband and a young boy are waiting. They travel together across the snow-capped mountains in a train which seems doomed to derail. He has no memory of his earlier life. Nightmares of monsters and crawling insects rob him of his sanity. Again and again, he doubts his senses. Repeatedly, the image of a red-haired woman enters his mind: he wants to meet her; he knows she holds the key to this mystery. Then she is there, in the flesh: beautiful, seductive...
In a street in Zurich, a man stands confused and bewildered. There's the bank he needs to go to, and in the hotel, a man who claims to be his husband ...
Tim and Tim, an elderly couple, have been running a bed & breakfast in Edinburgh, Scotland, for over thirty years. Their relationship is one of kind love and deep trust-they tell each other everything. A handful of lodgers give the old house a lively character. Jamie, the charming American hunk who won't settle down; Javier, a Spanish cook who prefers pornography to real people; Aleysha, an Ugandan refugee and her newborn baby. Into this idyll burst two attractive young men from Slovakia. Everybody agrees that they must be a couple-why else would they be staying here? They hug and cuddle,...
Tim and Tim, an elderly couple, have been running a bed & breakfast in Edinburgh, Scotland, for over thirty years. Their relationship is one of kind l...
After following the famous Giacomo Casanova through Europe for ten years, Giacomo's gay brother Benedetto has settled down in Rome with his German lover. But the Eternal City bores him. He has no work and no friends. His lover is always busy and away on assignments for the Vatican secret service. Alone in a big new house, he is desperate for distraction. Just when idless and unfulfilled lust threaten to get the better of Benedetto, Carl Anton accepts an exciting secret mission to Portugal. Preparations for the long journey are in full swing when the head of the mission, a young priest,...
After following the famous Giacomo Casanova through Europe for ten years, Giacomo's gay brother Benedetto has settled down in Rome with his German lov...
Six friends meet for dinner in one of the world's tallest buildings. They have known each other for years, and talk openly about their past, their hopes, and their desires. They also share a secret only patient listening will uncover. Slightly surreal, wonderfully erotic, inspiring, and thought-provoking, Marten Weber's Spanking Schubert is an unusual novel. It gives voice to a group of people who are rarely heard, hidden forever behind the screen of ancient norms and traditions. In Asian societies, which place great emphasis on family and offspring, men are under enormous pressure to conform...
Six friends meet for dinner in one of the world's tallest buildings. They have known each other for years, and talk openly about their past, their hop...