Böcker av Ilija Trojanow

Ich funktioniere, also bin ichWer nichts produziert und nichts konsumiert, ist überflüssig - so die mörderische Logik des Spätkapitalismus. Überbevölkerung sei das größte Problem unseres Planeten - so die internationalen Eliten. Doch wenn die Menschheit reduziert werden soll, wer soll dann verschwinden, fragt Trojanow in seiner humanistischen Streitschrift wider die Überflüssigkeit des Menschen. In seinen eindringlichen Analysen schlägt er den Bogen von den Verheerungen des Klimawandels über die Erbarmungslosigkeit neoliberaler Arbeitsmarktpolitik bis zu den massenmedialen Apokalypsen, die wir, die scheinbaren Gewinner, mit Begeisterung verfolgen. Doch wir täuschen uns: Es geht auch um uns. Es geht um alles.

A literary fiction about climate disaster and a scientist imploding on a journey to the AntarcticZeno Hintermeier is a scientist working as a travel guide on an Antarctic cruise ship, encouraging the wealthy to marvel at the least explored continent and to open their eyes to its rapid degradation. It is a troubling turn in the life of an idealistic glaciologist. Now in his early sixties, Zeno bewails the loss of his beloved glaciers, the disintegration of his marriage, and the foundering of his increasingly irrelevant career. Troubled in conscience and goaded by the smug complacency of the passengers in his charge, he starts to plan a desperate gesture that will send a wake-up call to an overheating world.The Lamentations of Zeno is an extraordinary evocation of the fragile and majestic wonders to be found at a far corner of the globe, written by a novelist who is a renowned travel writer. Poignant and playful, the novel recalls the experimentation of high-modernist fiction without compromising a limpid sense of place or the pace of its narrative. It is a portrait of a man in extremis, a haunting and at times irreverent tale that approaches the greatest challenge of our ageperhaps of our entire history as a speciesfrom an impassioned human angle.

In three short weeks the author experienced a tradition dating back over one thousand years This is his account, personal yet enlightening, for the interested non-Muslims who remain barred from the holy sites of Islam

The River Ganges has a thousand names. Hindu priests regard it as a sin to call her a river at all. She is a goddess, the source of the world, her waters holy and healing. This title describes a country between ancient traditions and astonishing modernity and the holy river that crosses it for hundreds of miles.