"The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of 2015. In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions--personal, moral, artistic, practical--as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living she has,...

Anna Seghers’s Transit is an existential, political, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom, the vitality of storytelling, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight.
     
Having escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1937, and later a camp in Rouen, the nameless twenty-seven-year-old German narrator of Seghers’s multilayered masterpiece ends...

Past and present merge in this alluring puzzle from Christian Petzold, which follows Georg (Franz Rogowski), a refugee from fascism who pursues Marie (Paula Beer), the wife of the dead man whose identity he has assumed.

»Ein fast perfekter Roman. Shirley Hazzard schreibt so gut wie Stendhal.« The New York Times Die ungleichen Waisen Caro und Grace Bell verlassen Australien, um im England nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg ein neues Leben beginnen. Sie treffen dort auf die Männer, mit denen sich ihre Leben in den folgenden drei Jahrzehnten durch alle politischen Verwerfungen und über die Kontinente hinweg verweben. Astronom Ted Tice umwirbt die selbstbewusste Caro, die...

Transit is a riveting, multi-layered tapestry that defies genre as it twists and turns like the mighty Amazon River itself. Dr. Jessamyn Quilter has committed the perfect crime, murdering her abusive husband in cold blood. Nobody will ever know what she did or hold her accountable. No mortal, that is. But her evil deed has unbalanced the cosmos. And the balance must be restored. Desperate to leave her old life behind and make a fresh...

Changing times bring changing outlooks but even back in 1984, well before the plethora of today's health and safety laws and risk-averse attitudes, an overland school trip to far-off India was considered somewhat extreme. And doubly so, given that travel through Iran was unavoidable despite Iran at the time suffering the upheavals of the Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution and engagement in a bloody war with neighbouring country Iraq. The idea...

After a virus infected France, Belgium and the Netherlands a team of resistance soldiers fight to save a young girl who seems to be their last hope for a cure.

There are vast swathes of people in economic migration across the Gulf states today. In total, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar form the largest destination for labour migration in the global South. This book studies the impact of this mass migration, and its effect on citizenship and workers' rights. Transit States considers how the transitory labour power these workers provide creates an extraordinary development...