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Colm Tóibíns großer Roman über Thomas Mann

Von der Kindheit in Lübeck bis zur Heirat in München, von der Gegnerschaft gegen die Nazis bis zum amerikanischen Exil. Über die vielen Gesichter des weltberühmten Autors und Familienvaters, der sein Gefühlsleben verborgen hielt, innerlich zerrissen zwischen Begehren und Pflichtgefühl, zwischen Bürgerlichkeit und künstlerischer Askese, wurde selten so feinfühlig, empathisch und sachte geschrieben. Ein Künstlerroman, wie man ihn in Deutschland noch nie gelesen hat.

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Now unknown or forgotten, influential schoolmasters took the game of association football to many parts of England. They had several roles: they brought the game to individual schools, they established regional and national leagues and associations, and they founded professional football clubs. They also exported the game around the world, working as moral missionaries, passionate players and energetic entrepreneurs. The role of teachers in association football is a much neglected aspect of English cultural history. It is a story that deserves to be told because it allows a fundamental...

In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland for Barcelona, determined to escape her family and become a painter. There she meets Miguel, an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and begins to build a life with him. But Katherine cannot escape her past, as Michael Graves, a fellow Irish emigre in Spain, forces her to reexamine all her relationships: to her lover, her art, and the homeland she only thought...