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"The Queue ... has drawn comparisons to Western classics like George Orwell’s 1984 and The Trial by Franz Kafka. It represents a new wave of dystopian and surrealist fiction from Middle Eastern writers who are grappling with the chaotic aftermath and stinging disappointments of the Arab...

At the war’s end, Frankfurt was a smoldering ruin, severely damaged by the Allied bombings. But that was two decades ago. Now it is 1963, and the city’s streets, once cratered, are smooth and paved. Shiny new stores replace scorched rubble. For 24-year-old Eva Bruhn, World War II is a foggy childhood memory. Eager for her wealthy suitor, Jürgen Schoorman, to propose, Eva dreams of starting a new life away from her parents and sister. But Eva’s plans are turned upside down when an American investigator, David Miller, hires her as a translator for a war crimes trial.

Laura, a student from a modest background, escapes her small town to join the ranks of the academic elite on a Weatherfield fellowship to study at Oxford University. She enthusiastically throws herself into her coursework, yet she is never able to escape a feeling of unease and dislocation. Years later, back in the United States with a PhD and dissertation on Henry James, she loses her job as an adjunct and reconnects with the Weatherfield Foundation. Commissioned to write a history for its centennial, she becomes obsessed by the Gilded Age origins of the Weatherfield fortune.

Was wir sehen - und lieber nicht sehen wollen. Einen Sommer lang arbeitet Elise für das gesellige Paar Margaux und Philippe in deren Ferienhaus in der Normandie. Fasziniert von den vielen illustren Gästen in der Domaine de Tourgéville, vom Leben, Wesen und der Ehe der Leclercs, wird die junge Frau zur eindringlichen Beobachterin von Sein und Schein. Sie erlebt ein Panoptikum der menschlichen Täuschungen, begreift, dass das Streben nach Glück und die Bereitschaft zum Betrug zwei Seiten derselben Medaille sind.