Wie viele junge Menschen schwankte der Autor lange zwischen enthusiastischem Fleischgenuss und Vegetariertum hin und her. Als Familienvater dann wurden ihm die moralischen Dimensionen der Wahl seiner Nahrungsmittel mehr und mehr bewusst. Aus Literatur und Philosophie und seiner eigenen Suche nach der Wahrheit zieht er überraschende Schlussfolgerungen darüber, warum wir essen was wir essen.
Wie viele junge Menschen schwankte der Autor lange zwischen enthusiastischem Fleischgenuss und Vegetariertum hin und her. Als Familienvater dann wurde...
Mit seinem ersten Roman "Everything is illuminated" landete Jonathan Safran Foer in den USA einen sensationellen Erfolg. Angeregt durch seine Vaterschaft, stellte sich der Gelegenheitsvegetarierer Safran Foer nun die ernsthafte Frage nach unserer gegenwärtigen Ernährung und ihren weitreichenden Konsequenzen. In "Eating animals" verarbeitet er seine Odysee von traditionellen Bauernhöfen über die in
Mit seinem ersten Roman "Everything is illuminated" landete Jonathan Safran Foer in den USA einen sensationellen Erfolg. Angeregt durch seine Vatersch...
Der neue Roman des preisgekrönten Autors von Everything is Illuminated: die originelle, skurrile und berührende Geschichte eines Jungen, dessen Vater bei den Anschlägen vom 11. September getötet wurde, und der nun auf der Suche nach Erinnerungen und nach innerem Frieden durch die Straßen von New York streift.
Der neue Roman des preisgekrönten Autors von Everything is Illuminated: die originelle, skurrile und berührende Geschichte eines Jungen, dessen Vate...
A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a blind old man; and an undersexed guide dog.
A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfath...
In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key... The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?
In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key... The key belonged to his father, he's su...
'Eating Animals' is a riveting expose which presents the gut-wrenching truth about the price paid by the environment, the government, the Third World and the animals themselves in order to put meat on our tables more quickly and conveniently than ever before.
'Eating Animals' is a riveting expose which presents the gut-wrenching truth about the price paid by the environment, the government, the Third World ...
Oskar Shell is a clever nine-year-old boy. When his father is killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001, Oskar wants to learn the secret about a key that he discovers in his fathers closet. His search takes him on a journey through New York and into the lives of strangers and relatives. But will it bring him any closer to his lost father?
Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series...
Oskar Shell is a clever nine-year-old boy. When his father is killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001, Oskar wants to l...
