and revelations in a book called promise me shoot yourself suicides of the world. at the end of the 6 . bucks we begin with the nominations for the prestigious booker prize one of the most important prizes in the literary well this year names like salman rushdie and wood on the list joined by man of letters david levitz to take us through this and an impressive list it isn't actually in some ways the list itself 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 your guests 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 hit 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 and that is exactly what i was readers of course once the 1st novel the handmaid's tale takes place in a totalitarian theocracy and it 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 bad 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 that another. he waits

on the book of prizes short as salomon rushdie his novel key shots which we can read. just hit shelves of this is a bowl the reinterpretation of servant is classic don quixote. publisher's 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 rush 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 members as well and one of them actually who will be getting a lot more attention soon is the turkish. shuffle living in exile in london his mall. today author elif south park because london home.

the turkish writer left her own country behind to escape the political situation there. 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 get it all sort of someone i came here over 10 years ago i feel free here whether i speak right or give interviews i can i can openly criticize things for example breaks it but i'm free to do that. in this modest and riders it's very important to live in a democracy and amy is so much you can be a citizen took being. and after a decade here in england has also taken the step of writing in the language of her new country. this is our camera to cheat 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 it's people can live and write in different languages but that doesn't mean that you're giving up your native tongue to teams on them like ghana mess. suffolk's booker prize shortlisted novel 10 minutes 38 seconds in this drainage world takes the reader back to 970 s. 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. the 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. and if she shortlisted for the booker prize as it is russia. would. who else made that short list well one of their author to watch on this your short list is 33 year old nigerian author she cosy o.b.o. with his novel and orchestra of minorities now that's a great title she. it is not yet

a household name but maybe he will be soon he's already been hailed as the heir to nigeria as a late literary doyin a big 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 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 states without punctuation i was 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 of a 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 not going to tell you anything else about it until you show the trailer ok let's have a look at the try and. why subscribe to d w books. e.w.

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germany and old the horrors it spread continue to be the stuff of films of books of coles and historian still discover new stories from the 2nd well will that leave us in she will didn't like florio book cold rather frightening they. actually it's not called 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. on at the beginning of the 940 s. and scarred by war 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. is that the gates of deming will be on who 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 occurred 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 a children with us. above all the fear of marauding soviet soldiers drove men to their deaths. suicide usually had to subject became a major topic and damn until it's 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 one you know it was a kind of 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 the young woman who is so bright and this picture was shot by the forester together worser 2 daughters in the garden. homs a huge the forest of them wanted to kill himself for not only succeeded in blinding himself rules but increased awesome. and demin it's believed 1000 people took their

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