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Edwin Mortens is almost blind, but has good hearing; his wife Erna is hard of hearing, but has excellent eyes. Paralyzed from the waist down, Edwin sits locked in his bathroom all day, every day, trying to liberate his mind from his body. The experiment is going relatively well: nearly all his bodily functions have ceased, his limbs are in a state of decay, and his digestive system is in the process of breaking down. "This body," he says, "is a sewer."

To pass the time, Edwin dedicates his days to chewing gum and screaming at his wife, on whom he is, nonetheless, entirely dependent;...

The ninth volume in a new series of fast-paced, gritty WWII historical novels for teenagers. Based on diaries and memoirs of Holocaust survivors, this is a tale of survival in the Warsaw Ghetto. For ages twelve and over, with adult crossover potential.

In late 1946, Stig Dagerman was assigned by the Swedish newspaper Expressen to report on life in Germany immediately after the fall of the Third Reich. First published in Sweden in 1947, German Autumn, a collection of the articles written for that assignment, was unlike any other reporting at the time. While most Allied and foreign journalists spun their writing on the widely held belief that the German people deserved their fate, Dagerman disagreed and reported on the humanness of the men and women ruined by the war--their guilt and suffering. Dagerman was already a prominent...

Wofür lohnt es sich zu leben? Und was ist es, das unser Leben über seinen reinen Nutzen hinaus erhebt? Weshalb ist es besser, zu sein, als nicht zu sein?
Der junge Schriftsteller Stig Dagerman schrieb 1951 inmitten einer lähmenden Schreibblockade ein autobiografisches Bekenntnis über den Trost, in dem er seine inneren Dämonen, seine Sucht nach Anerkennung und sein unbändiges Bedürfnis nach Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit hinterfragt. Die Trauer über die Vergänglichkeit allen Lebens, so seine Erkenntnis, kann nur überwunden werden durch die Öffnung zum Augenblick, zum...