New Brazil
by Guy Helminger
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The life histories of two migrant women at the beginning of the 19th and 21st centuries:
the fate of war and poverty refugees then and now.
In 1828, a group of Luxembourg farmers, including the young Josette, leave everything behind and join a stream of emigrants who, driven by the political situation and dire living conditions, are heading for Brazil on the promise of a better life.
170 years later, Safeta reaches Luxembourg in a group of Montenegrin refugees. They too have left their homeland in pursuit of a vague promise.
It will not come to bear for both women – yet neither Josette, nor Safeta can backtrack to their former lives.
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»Das wirklich Einprägsame an diesem Buch ist jedoch die offene Gegenüberstellung zweier Migrationsgeschichten ohne simplifizierendes Fazit, ohne die üblichen Schuldzuweisungen. Dadurch entwickelt dieses Diptychon seine eigene aufklärerische Kraft gegen ideologische Einseitigkeiten jeglicher Art. Es signalisiert: Migration ist immer ein Drama, individuell und kollektiv, ein Konflikt, mitunter ein Kampf.«
DIE ZEIT
»Bitter ist diese Geschichte, aber Helminger gibt ihr schicksalhaftes Volumen. Und man vermag sich von dieser Prosa kaum zu lösen …«
Kölnische Rundschau
»Ein ausgewogener und dabei klangvoller, vielstimmiger Roman.«
Deutschlandradio
Author Biography
Guy Helminger, born 1963 in Esch-sur-Alzette in southern Luxembourg, lives in Cologne. He has published poetry, various novels, stories, plays and radio plays. In 2002 he was awarded the Prix Servais for Rost, in 2004 the 3sat-Preis in Klagenfurt, in 2006 the Prix du mérite culturel de la Ville d’Esch-sur-Alzette, in 2016 the Dresdner Lyrikpreis and in 2020 the Gustav-Regler-Preis. Several of his books have been translated into other languages, e. g. the collection of short stories Etwas fehlt immer into Serbian (2018) and the play Venezuela into French (2008).
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- Publisher capybarabooks
- Publication Date May 2020
- Orginal LanguageGerman
- ISBN/Identifier 9789995943264 / 9995943264
- Publication Country or regionLuxembourg
- FormatHardback
- Pages400
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleNeubrasilien
- Original Language AuthorsGuy Helminger
- Copyright Year2020
- Page size20 x 12
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