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Salman Rushdie erhält den Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels 2023 'für seine Unbeugsamkeit, seine Lebensbejahung und dafür, dass er mit seiner Erzählfreude die Welt bereichert.' (Aus der Begründung der Jury)'Scham und Schande' ist ein vor Fantasie schäumendes Märchen über ein ungenanntes Land, das 'nicht ganz Pakistan' ist, und der Roman, der für Salman Rushdies modernen Klassiker 'Die satanischen Verse' den Weg bereitete. In dieser grandiosen Geschichte über ein fortwährendes Duell zwischen den Familien zweier Männer - der eine ein gefeierter Kriegsführer, der andere ein hemmungsloser Liebhaber des Vergnügens - schildert Rushdie brillant eine Welt, die zwischen Ehre und Demütigung gefangen ist.

This collection of essays explores the history of the book in pre-modern South Asia looking at the production, circulation, fruition and preservation of manuscripts in different areas and across time. Edited by the team of the Cambridge-based Sanskrit Manuscripts Project and including contributions of the researchers who collaborated with it, it covers a wide range of topics related to South Asian manuscript culture: from the material dimension (palaeography, layout, decoration) and the complicated interactions of manuscripts with printing in late medieval Tibet and in modern Tamil Nadu, to reading, writing, editing and educational practices, from manuscripts as sources for the study of religious, literary and intellectual traditions, to the creation of collections in medieval India and Cambodia (one major centre of the so-called Sanskrit cosmopolis), and the formation of the Cambridge collections in the colonial period. The contributions reflect the variety of idioms, literary genres, religious movements, and social actors (intellectuals, scribes, patrons) of ancient South Asia, as well as the variety of approaches, interests and specialisms of the authors, and their impassionate engagement with manuscripts.

Ein Jahr lang hat Jaroslav Poncar im Auftrag des Centrums für internationale Migration und Entwicklung, das kulturelle Erbe Afghanistans fotografisch dokumentiert. Dabei hat er das Land aus einer differenzierten Sicht kennengelernt, dessen Bild in den Medien und der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung seit Jahrzehnten von Krieg und Gewalt bestimmt wird. Er hatte die seltene Gelegenheit, trotz der oftmals durch die Sicherheitslage erschwerten Arbeitsbedingungen einen persönlichen Blick auf das Land und seine Kultur werden zu können. Afghanistans herbe Schönheit mit seinen weiten Steppen, majestätischen Bergwelten und rauen Felswüsten kommt dabei ebenso zum Tragen wie Ansichten der wichtigen kulturellen Zentren und das alltäglichen Lebens der Afghanen.

'As hypnotic as an opium dream and pretty unputdownable' Daily Mail<BR><BR>In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the whirlwind. When the seas settle, five men have disappeared - two lascars, two convicts and one of the passengers. Did the same storm upend the fortunes of those aboard the Anahita, an opium carrier heading towards Canton? And what fate befell those aboard the Redruth, a sturdy two-masted brig heading East out of Cornwall? Was it the storm that altered their course or were the destinies of these passengers at the mercy of even more powerful forces?<BR><BR>On the grand scale of an historical epic, River of Smoke follows its storm-tossed characters to the crowded harbors of China. There, despite efforts of the emperor to stop them, ships from Europe and India exchange their cargoes of opium for boxes of tea, silk, porcelain and silver. Among them are Bahram Modi, a wealthy Parsi opium merchant out of Bombay, his estranged half-Chinese son Ah Fatt, the orphaned Paulette and a motley collection of others whose pursuit of romance, riches and a legendary rare flower have thrown together. All struggle to cope with their losses - and for some, unimaginable freedoms - in the alleys and crowded waterways of 19th century Canton. <BR><BR>As transporting and mesmerizing as an opiate induced dream, River of Smoke will soon be heralded as a masterpiece of twenty-first century literature.

Magisch, erotisch, wild!Als die schöne Rachel Lospostros nur knapp sie einem Anschlag auf ihr Leben entkommt, muss sie alles, was ihr lieb und teuer ist, hinter sich lassen. Sie flieht von Kontinent zu Kontinent bis sie schließlich die undurchdringlichen Tiefen des Dschungels von Borneo erreicht. Hier hofft sie, endlich Frieden zu finden. Dort begegnet sie dem charismatischen Rio Santana, der selbst Träger eines dunklen Geheimnisses ist. Getrieben von einem unstillbaren erotischen Verlangen zueinander, ahnen Rachel und Rio mehr und mehr, dass sie eine ganz besondere Gabe miteinander verbindet...

Hardly a week passes without our learning of natural geologic disaster somewhere in the world, be it a volcanic eruption, landslide, or destructive earthquake. The prominent public notice given to such events is not only the result of better communications, but also results from the increased impact of these events on a growing human population. In recent years, the population has increased greatly in regions of active tectonics. Northern India and the surrounding areas are prime examples. The consequence is that people and their man-made structures are concentrated close to active faults and steep, landslide-prone terrains. In just the past several years, even moderate earthquakes with seismic magnitudes less than 6. 5 have killed as many as 20,000 people precisely because these earthquakes occurred directly beneath population centres in central India. The greater Himalayan region, including the Ganges Plain, is a prime example of the coexistence of a pronounced geological hazard with a growing human population. Due in part to the spectacular topography, the region has long attracted scientific investigations, and may be considered as the birthplace of modern studies of earthquake hazards. R. D. Oldham (1858-1936) of the Geological Survey of India played a prominent role in the development of modern studies of historical seismicity, active faulting and seismic wave analysis. Oldham published extensively on the earthquakes and the geology of India, including his report entitled "Catalogue of Indian earthquakes from the earliest time to the end of A. D. 1869" (Mem. Geol. Surv.

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