cold d.w. books. and disturbing revelations in a book called promise me you'll shoot suicides of all. of the end of the 6. bucks we began with the nominations for the prestigious booker prize one of the most important prizes in the literary well this year names like salman rushdie of wood on the list joined by man of less is david levitz to take us through this and an impressive list and it isn't actually in some ways the listed self is more exciting than even the winner because a lot of people they've got now they're reading list for the next year until the next list comes out these are the 6 novels that they're going to be reading this year and of course the most anticipated novel of the year the testaments by margaret atwood the queen of dystopian fiction you're going to she is and this book

is not even out yet and it's already on the list people have been waiting for this book for 34 years this is the sequel to her masterpiece the handmaid's tale but a lot of demand for it certainly it finally had shelves in a week's time the jury of the booker prize are some of the very few people who've even gotten to see it and they have vowed silence however they will say that it is terrifying that is exactly what that words readers of course once the 1st novel the handmaid's tale takes place in a totalitarian theocracy that is turned women into sex slaves and of course many people know this from this series the handmaid's tale which has of course increased demand for a sequel that series already went off book 2 seasons ago this new book is going to spin the story forward 15 years millions of readers are going to want to see how our it is going to spin the story forward is going to match up with this series and can it get any. worse because she is the queen of dystopia is just another every

way it's all the book of prizes short as salomon rushdie his novel key shots which we can read he just hits shelves this is a bowl the reinterpretation of servant is classic don quixote. publishers promises promise but this is a don quixote for the modern age except in this version he's not chasing windmills he is chasing a t.v. star that he's fallen in love with now the 1st reviews of this book say that this is rushdie doing rushdie they say the act is getting old he's getting lazy obviously the jury didn't feel that they clearly think that he is living up to his reputation and that's why he deserves to be on the list now those of course are the biggest names on the list there are 4 others that are not yet as big but maybe they'll soon be household names as well and one of them actually who will be getting a lot more attention soon is the turkish exile. shuffle living in exile in london

his mall. today author elif suffolk cause london home. the turkish writer left her own country behind to escape the political situation there. sounds like may have come to england out of necessity but she's come to appreciate her new life here she's made friends people know her around here to give it all. i came here over 10 years ago i feel free here whether i speak write or give interviews i can i can openly criticize things for example breck that i'm free to do that. in this modest and riders it's very important to live in a democracy and to me some of which. took the. and after a decade here in england shuffled his. also taken the step of writing in the

language of her new country. tech it's not like i'm leaving the turkish language behind when i write an anus that's what the nationalists say for them everything is either black or white but you can dream in more than one language sometimes we start in german and the dream in turkish search of it's people can live and write in different languages but that doesn't mean that you're giving up your native tongue timbs on them they get in the us. sharks booker prize shortlisted novels 10 minutes 38 seconds in this range worlds takes the reader back to $970.00 s. and stumble a vibrant city that also provided a safe haven for social outcasts the stories protagonist is a prostitute who works in istanbul as a red light district and finally gets murdered the people closest to her are outsiders like herself all of them tolerated but not quite accepted as targets

to view all the readers are being sent on a journey to the past but that's how they will learn to understand so many things that are happening today a lot is the same today the polarization marginalization discrimination and despotism take it was important to me to tell that story. a writer in exile in her book 10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world istanbul is a refuge the authors found her own refuge here in london. shortlisted for the booker prize as it is solomon rushdie. would. who else made that short list well one of their author to watch on this your shortlist is 33 year old nigerian author she cozy obi. with his novel an orchestra of minorities now that's

a great title he is not yet a household name but maybe he will be soon he's already been hailed as the heir to nigeria's late literary doyin chinua achebe there's also berna dean every step she's on the list with her novel girl woman other about the overlapping lives of several black british women who couldn't be more different and then there's lucy elements novel ducks newburyport a 1000 page long breathless rants by an american housewife while the title of the main character about how the us has gone insane oh. yeah that bald faced with no punctuation just as they all do of course is going to keep people busy reading you've also been very busy as well because you know helping launch a great new exciting project called d.w. books tell us about books is a new you tube channel for everyone who likes books who likes to read even people who would like to read but maybe don't have the time to and you know what robin i'm

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germany and all the horrors it spread continue to be the stuff of films of books of coles and historian still discover new stories from the 2nd will that leave us in sheer will didn't like florio book cold rather frightening they. actually does not hold that promise me you'll shoot yourself it is called a big problem strange how the local civilian population of a small town in germany took their own lives as the russian army approached. them in at the beginning of the $940.00 s. and scarred by will are a thriving trading town. just a few years later the downfall allied troops and bands on the nazi capital berlin. 2 hours north of berlin the soviet red. it's at the gates of deming will be on who by describes what happened in his book promise me you shoot yourself. america being

a mother recorded the deaths of more than 600 people. more than how to go to school and shot his wife and 3 children one after the other it was as if the death of courage had suddenly gripped them all it was the end of the german state if you want and that was too much for so many of them. it isn't worth living a life without so let's better leave this world and let's even take them with us. above all the fear of marauding soviet soldiers drove men to their deaths . door suicide usually had to subject became a major topic and damn and towards the end of the war everyone was talking about it neighbors even side advice from each other how are you going to kill yourself did

you also buy some poison no i don't believe in poison i think it's better if you shoot yourself yeah but where did you get the gun well i'm going to ask my friend he has one from the 1st well you know it was a kind of a day to day conversation this was something that we had never witnessed before in any part of the society of germany but all over the world. the tragedy continues to occupy thoughts and damning to this day. documentary filmmaker martin fact has visited the town a few years ago and spoke to survivors. almost 40 years 3 young women with the brighton's is picture was shot by the forester together was her 2 daughters in the garden. homs are huge the forest of them wanted to kill himself but only succeeded and blinding himself been crushed awesome.

and demin it's believed 1000 people took their lives for the whole of germany estimates are in the 10s of thousands there are no precise figures. it's a chapter of german history that has long been ignored. julian who book describes it in ferocious detail ready ready ready. don't forget to check out on new you tube channel d.w. book spot since this book you should dition of all.

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