and disturbing revelations in a book called promise me shooters about suicides of ordinary germans at the end of the same. bumps 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 would on the list and i'm joined by a man of letters david leavitt's to take his through this and an impressive list day 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 you guess 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 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 that words readers of course once the 1st novel the handmaid's tale takes place in a totalitarian theocracy that has 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. everyway it's all the

book of prizes short list salmond rushdie his novel key shots which we can read. just hit shelves this is a ball 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 is rushed 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. shock living in exile in london

his small. today author ellie of suffolk calls 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 the good old city. i came here over 10 years ago i feel free here whether i speak right or give interviews. i can openly criticize things for example breck that i'm free to do that. artists and writers it's very important to live in a democracy and amy some of which he. took being. and after a decade here in england has also taken the step of writing in the languages. her

new country. in this is actually 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 on more than one language sometimes we start in german and the dream in turkish says people can live and write in different languages but that doesn't mean that you're giving up your native tongue. to miss on the ghana mess. sharks booker prize shortlisted novel 10 minutes 38 seconds in this drainage world takes the reader back to 970 s. a stumble a fiber in 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 to be the central. valley of 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. shortlisted for the booker prize as it is one 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 o.b.o. more with his novel and orchestra of mind. he's 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 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 then there's lucy elman's novel ducks newburyport a 1000 page long breathless rant by an american housewife while the title of the main character about how the us has gone insane oh. yeah that mold sounds interesting without punctuation as they all do of course is going to keep people busy really 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

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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 world war 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. denman at the beginning of the 1940 s. and scarred by war a thriving trading town. just a few years later the downfall allied troops a bronze on the nazi capital berlin. 2 hours north of berlin the soviet red. is that the gates of deming will be on who by describes what happened in his book promise me you shoot yourself. america being killed and her mother recorded the

deaths of more than 600 people here had 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 them with us. above all the fear of marauding soviet soldiers drove many to their deaths . usually had to do 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 by 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. or 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 was so bright and so speak she was shot by the forest together worser 2 daughters in the garden. the forest of the wanted to kill himself but only succeeded and blinding himself rules been crisscrossing. 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 jovian who best book describes it in ferocious detail. don't forget to check out on new you tube channel d.w. books spots it but this bookish edition of awesome culture of earth. for calm it's a waste for just one drink i'm a man in uganda wanted an alternative to plastic straw polls and came up with a simple natural traditional solution mistrusts are long ago our sister is used to them all for drinking in their local blues for a mother was crazy numbers business started full months ago and is doing very well

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