Nevjernica
Ayaan Hirsi Ali jedna je od političkih pojava današnjice kojima se ljudi najviše dive, ali i koju najviše osporavaju. Na naslovnice međunarodnih tiskovina dospjela je nakon što je jedan islamist ubio Thea Van Gogha, a nju označio slijedećom metom. Dugo očekivana Nevjernica govori o sazrijevanju te elegantne, odvažne, ali i ozloglašene političke superzijezde i zagovornice slobode govora. Odgojena u strogoj muslimanskoj obitelji i široj klanovskoj zajednici, Hirsi Ali preživjela je građanski rat, osakaćivanje genitalija, brutalno premlaćivanje, pubertet obilježen izuzetnom pobožnošću, uspon Muslimanskog bratstva i život u četiri različite diktature. Pobjegla je od dogovorenog braka i zatražila azil u Nizozemskoj, gdje se borila za prava muslimanki i reformu islama, navlačeći na sebe neprijateljstvo reakcionarnih islamista i kukavnih političara. Iako živi u stalnoj opasnosti, i dalje odbija zašutjeti.
6.10. u Galeriji Borisa Smoje u 20h
Projekcija filma "Ljubavnik" po istoimenoj knjizi Marquerite Duras
te razgovor o autorici i knjizi nakon filma
Radnja najpoznatijeg romana (1984.) francuske spisateljice, scenaristice i redateljice smještena je u Vijetnam, zemlju u kojoj je Durasova provela djetinjstvo. U romanu, zasnovanom na autobiografskim elementima, riječ je o zabranjenoj ljubavnoj vezi između siromašne petnaestogodišnje Francuskinje i elegantnog mladog muškarca iz bogate kineske obitelji. U godini objavljivanja roman je nagrađen francuskom književnom nagradom Goncourt. Po ovom je literarnom predlošku snimljen istoimeni film (1992.) u režiji Jean-Jacquesa Annauda.
It is said old loves can haunt us. The Lover creates this feeling through an atmosphere of shadows, veils, floating memories that came from - was it this boat trip or the last one? from age eight or twelve or thirty? In the end it doesn't matter, for the experience is now embedded, a distinct yet inseparable part of the personality. Marguerite Duras mines her own past to tell The Lover, the story of an adolescent girl growing up in Indochina during the 1930s. The girl is wayward, rebellious; one day, returning to school on the ferry, dressed in gold lame shoes, a man's hat and a silk dress, she encounters the son of a Chinese millionaire. Soon they are involved in the first affair of her life, one she claims has no basis in love for her. He can never marry her - his father has refused - and she says she will leave without regrets. But is that possible? Years later she looks back. By presenting ideas and memories in paragraphs that are literally isolated yet constantly overlapping, The Lover creates a misty world of connections made by emotion rather than logic or chronology, a feeling that lingers after the book itself is closed
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Island Beneath the Sea, her eighth novel, is a historical romance of slaves and pirates, set on the Caribbean island of Saint-Domingue and in the Vieux Carré of New Orleans, between 1770 and 1810 – the period of the French Revolution, the slaves’ revolt of Toussaint Louverture and the Louisiana Purchase. The heroine is Zarité, known as Tété, a slave girl of mixed race who is raped at the age of 11 by Toulouse Valmorain, her cruel and proud master, and subsequently endures any number of injustices, in which she is sustained by her indomitable character and unshakeable faith in voodoo.
In bite-sized chapters, which become wearisome over such a generous length, the novel presents a world of powdered wigs and bursting corsets, of brutality in sugar cane fields and debauchery in opulent brothels – the many sex scenes are excruciating – into which historical events occasionally barge with the finesse of a muddy prop forward.
read more http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/7771601/Island-Beneath-the-Sea-by-Isabel-Allende-review.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/books/review/Bahadur-t.html?_r=1 
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were planted and took root.
Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh north. Despite his distaste for dealing in “flesh,” he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, “with the hands of a slave and the feet of a Portuguese lady.” Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master’s house, but later from a handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved.
There are other voices: Lina, whose tribe was decimated by smallpox; their mistress, Rebekka, herself a victim of religious intolerance back in England; Sorrow, a strange girl who’s spent her early years at sea; and finally the devastating voice of Florens’ mother. These are all men and women inventing themselves in the wilderness.
A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and of a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.
Acts of mercy may have unforeseen consequences.
Reading group guide
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307264237&view=rg
Toni Morrison Discusses 'A Mercy'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IZvMhQ2LIU 
Deseta muza putovanje je unatrag 2600 godina da bi se uslo u um najvece pesnikinje ljubavne poezije koju je svet ikada upoznao. U cetrnaestoj godini, Sapfo je zaveo prelepi pesnik Alkej, sa kojim je ona kovala zaveru da svrgne s vlasti diktatora na ostrvu, ali uhvacena je i roditelji su je udali za gnusnog starijeg muskarca s namerom da je drze podalje od nevolje. Umesto toga, u toj nesrecnoj zajednici ona zapocinje seriju ljubavnih avantura, koje je odvode od Delfa do Egipta, cak do zemlje Amazonki i mracnog kraljevstva Hada. Na svojim putovanjima, Sapfo radja kcerku i gubi je, postaje najpoznatija pevacica antickog sveta i pocinje da razume sile koje su oblikovale njen zivot. Upotpunjen novim Erikinim prevodima Sapfinih fragmenata i sa devet novih pesama same Dzongove o epskoj pesnikinji koja je stvorila nase razumevanje pesnickog stiha, Deseta muza ne sme se propustiti. Neustrasiva, junacka, a opet ranjiva, Sapfo Erike Dzong jedna je od najnezaboravnijih i najbujnijih heroina.
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