cream explores the southernmost region of europe, not a trim full of cultural treasure. in 60 minutes on dw, these places in europe are smashing all the records. step into a bold adventure. it's the treasure map for modern globetrotters. discover some of europe's record breaking sites on your max youtube. and now also in book form i, the swiftness grew daughter, the ability to take part in cultural life to have it be present. the scribe is sliding is really like life itself, leaving the terrible and beautiful and everything in between. and that's visually you couldn't log up any of that. and then in my novel,

i began to talk with we begin with the frankfurt book fair and plenty of reading material, looking for the novel of the yeah, we present the find this for the german book prize. oh boy, we made till ukrainian hung poet, awarded the peace prize of the german book, trade an unusual choice. but 1st we looked to spain. the book 1st guessed country where women are writing for more justice castilla la mancha. in spain's interior is a poor region, but one which enjoyed world fame in the 17th century. this is the land of don quixote, the melancholy knight who tilts at windmills. and it's where ana ellis simone grew up. her background is mar, her grandparents were communists,

traveling fair ground workers, her parents postal workers, that ana, israel could go to madrid to study was a step up for the family. then came the financial crisis. after her studies, she lost 3 jobs in mass layouts. unable to afford her own, she shared an apartment by her late twenty's. she'd had enough and wrote a furious book via a reckoning with empty promises. oh, when her parents were young and she was a child, they had already built a life for themselves. but for uneasiness, a stable job, her own apartment, even starting a family, seemed like an impossible dream. at least for her generation with your fidel can her and i don't think we're last generation this in on the contrary, i mean a very visible when does it mean right? the by you've had the privilege of thinking a lot about ourselves. we really feel that been says him, what does he mean?

her book is a memoir of growing up in the country side with little but a family that stuck together and hoped for a better future. ah, was it that, that then the, the, it's not so much about romanticize in the lives of those who came before us dominion been saying, hey, there are certain tangible ways in which we have gone downhill, not get my parents were able to buy a house and started family at 20 is only yodi a and most of my generation a 30 com to afford it, but we don't even think about it and them because i think it's not so much nostalgia because it's real. these are the fact that the lab simone no longer lives in madrid. she now as a son and rights were a major newspaper. she's glad that. finally, there's a public debate about the inequalities in spanish and society. madrid, march, 8th, 2018. millions of women more than ever before, and many men are demonstrating across the country. a protest for more justice equal

rights and a better future in elena may. does dave, you novel the wonders a grandmother and granddaughter cross paths at this protest without recognizing each other. they never met. maria had to leave her hometown of cordova when she accidentally became pregnant. a disgrace in the 1960 s. elisia has moved to madrid, following a family tragedy. to women from the margins of society. the novel struck a nerve. i think hey, maybe maria's toady or alice her story will be a a saudi im also jerry among also go yeah gosh, how many gun because head east was about money are like issues with a far from bar. there's hung far from from moments in this toady. maria

grew up in franco's spain, a life of menial labor while continuing to learn, opening new worlds for herself. busy alicia and contrast is on a downward spiral from a once affluent family, she now works in a train station kiosk, meeting men for random sex. although she is married. alicia and maria to women trying to get by in a world where everything revolves around money. they don't have ah, he's not a good time. ha, ha. we magnus enough time. ha! down people. the next generation, the people who were born in the ninety's, they have only known like they've got his works. but i think it's a, you know, not a worse time than there in the past. i think. spain is still haunted by the memory of the bloody civil war from 196 to 9391 by the fascists. under general franco.

hundreds of thousands died. countless opponents of the regime were arrested, disappeared, murdered. not until 975 with franco's death did democracy return. ushering and a new generation of authors who could finally write about the issues that preoccupied them. rosa montero novelist and political journalist is one of them. a legend since the publication of her 1st novel in 1979 crony cost as day, some or, or chronicle of enmity, is the story of anna, a single mother and journalist at a major newspaper who has somehow lost her way. after franco's death. independent women like her were banned from the public sphere under franco. the novels considered a key work of its time. it was so em all mentally. well, it's really where i began to say it openly, things that we couldn't half side before because eh, my, i novel appears 4 years after as franco's death. and before you couldn't talk about

the real life we had a life was there. but and i, in the last years as franco's regime, we lived in 2 countries, one day of he shall, wow, that he's was awful. and the other, the real one that be it was set up very similar to other countries around the mass, but you could then net dot cope and the out of that. and then in my novel, i began to talk about bruce montero has published nearly 20 books, her work span historical science and fantasy fiction, often with strong female characters at odds with men and with a society she continues to see as unjust. i think a question of class has been always there somehow and you know, in these awful, at ne, dictate those shape in the, the, sorry, i've been poor country. people who call went to right either way, man or a man. they were last, have them for it. make us to half our library at home and i not in my generation on

che, change it in rosa montero honor. it is simone, elena maydon, 3 women writers fighting for a fairer spain and for a woman's right to make her own choices with life and a nuclear family, as seen through the eyes of a little girl. daniela to russia's novel, lies about my mother is a tragic comedy that plays out in the homes, gardens and kitchens of the german middle class. the hockey mat, who has the power as him and to which powers social mechanisms and dynamics of the individual characters subjected to in this intimate theater. we call hamlin and

we'll let my mother won't fit in any coffin. she's too fat. she says, when she dies, she doesn't want her ashes to be captain an urn, but simply scattered over open water the fattest and also the father has climbed the social ladder phone and for an upstart like him . things like appearance, planning and not standing out of very important with the army. he needs to exist in this new world. and the mother doesn't fit the bill for novel takes the reader back in time to west germany in the early eighty's. the era of tennis legend boris becker chancellor. helmut kohl on the cold war, a time of rigid gender rose. what was it like to come of age during those years? having a father who controls and rules over your mother who sees her body is non slightly stained on his immaculate facade. just look at yourself

from now on. she has away herself every morning under his supervision. the demon, every time the humiliation could be seen flashing across her face. daniella, atrocious, novel is the portrait of a generation and the declaration of love to a mother who refuses to remain a victim and eventually manages to set herself free. ready ah. ready large parts of his latest work came to german check ortho, young hector while riding around on his bike. since it's an autobiographical novel, the title touch it or is it affectionately refers to the author himself? guns dwarf is the ultimate. well, he's not a complete moron, but he blunders along and allows himself to come up with countless idiotic ideas and pointless musings, susan susan, for him, duncan,

anything goes out ghosts of his past appear to the cheerful idiots in the shape of european history, personal memories and entertaining digressions. if nor versus only i knew what deserves telling from that horace pile. that is my past to that said, he arrives to east berlin in 1978. drawn to the more the charm and anarchistic mood, fueled by intellectuals and artists and the pence, lower back district. he tells tales of free love and squashes apartments. shush the footer. the decay suited meal and socialism didn't pretend to be something. it wasn't his wife as soon as everything was ugly and falling apart. and so was societies of sophia. it was symptomatic and symptom of to somehow it was like a huge playground. you've got the other inefficient climb from petula and

a good mood nowadays. although i don't much like myself when i unexpectedly catch my reflection in a mirror for sure every show. but underneath all, the lightness is a tragic undertone. to essence, either from death makes an appearance on the very 1st page. it's always present lurking beneath the surface. never denied, mixed fig. playfulness is overshadowed by the specter of sorrow and death. young to son lived in the spelling courtyard until he committed suicide in 2012. the novel also serves as a monument to the lost son. ready ready ready oh. ready ha, sam believes he has earned his new apartment in istanbul. having worked hard for it for 30 years in germany. now he can finally retire and start a new life in turkey. but who st collapse is after a heart attack?

and the family meets not to celebrate the new home, but to bury the head of the family. ah, this catastrophe sets the stage where fatma ada mir's novel, which chronicles the life of hussein and emmy ne turkish curds who wanted to build a new life in germany. especially for their children, but a sense of reproach is ever present. while we want to see you have a better life, they say head will cindy, but then does not have scope to disappoint the parent is the answer and ties in her novel genes. we get to know who's saying and his wife emanates their children, septa haakon patty, and omit them, and their gens their spirits. the sent off to these spirits often simply secrets that these characters have that they carry with them and within the family high that they represent traumas that they've never worked through the off god for hussein it was poverty and violence and turkey for emmy. ne. it was the loss of her

1st child for septa married off a just 18. it's fighting for independence against all odds. hawk on who works for a used car dealer. peddling fast cars asks whether it's possible to have a life that's different than his father's will meet. the youngest loves to play soccer and falls in love with the friend. it almost breaks him and then there's perry, the rebellious one. who studies in frankfort, and who's angry about everything as suits of elation, perry thought simply had no history. it was the opposite of history. it was history's end it's extinction. fought my aid. amir describes germany as an unfriendly place where everyone is afraid to speak the truth because the truth can sometimes be an imposition. ready ready ready ready ready ready have many fellows const i never cared much for art at least

i found most of the pictures i got to see either unsightly or meaningless. sometimes both at the same time. these are some of the narrates as opening words and echoes. nikolai novel spits vague. they turn out to be misleading because the book does, in fact celebrate art painting and the also as to gives the book its title thick. if it's vague, has been one of the greatest discoveries of painting for me there. so much to explore in these works and because i've always wanted to be a bit of a detective, i discovered a lot more in these paintings than is immediately visible. it us off to a lovely, it says in oh, quality, bachelor's bookworms. the novel features carried to stray sounds of the spits, vague universe. it's all begins with a self portrait made an art class of students about to graduate from high school. what follows an insult, an os heist, and a plan for revenge. complete with a show down in a museum, a cat's nichols characters go on a scavenger.