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Ein Familienroman zwischen Sizilien und Berlin und eine bittersüße Liebeserklärung an den italienischen Süden. Tita, eine Berliner Grafikerin, erhält einen Anruf aus Sizilien, der sie zurück in die Vergangenheit führt: Ihr Vater Gianni verließ einst den Südosten der Insel, um als einer der ersten Gastarbeiter in Berlin sein Glück zu finden. Er verliebte sich, gründete eine Familie und wurde erfolgreich, indem er die Tiefkühlpizza in Deutschland etablierte. Sein früher Tod trübte Titas Kindheit und ließ Sizilien in ihrer Erinnerung verblassen.

From movies to politics, social media posts to the targeted ads between them, nostalgia is one of the most potent forces of our era. On Nostalgia is a panoramic cultural history of nostalgia, exploring how a force that started as a psychological diagnosis of soldiers fighting far from home has come become a quintessentially modern condition.

A treasure trove from the golden era of hip-hop journalism, featuring groundbreaking articles, oral histories, and never-before-seen photos and artifacts—expertly curated by a renowned archivist In the early days of the hip-hop industry—long before hip hop became American pop music, before...

ONE OF THE NEW REPUBLIC'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR “Nothing I’ve read has cut to the heart of the ’00s like Y2K.” — Bustle Perfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman, Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about how the early 2000s forever changed us...

As the Battle of Britain rages, the Castle family are standing their ground at the heart of the community, running Castle's Café. German guns shell Dover and danger lurks around every corner, but despite this, Lily Castle is excited to be starting her nursing career at last. Lily is enjoying her life. She's a good nurse, has a group of friends at the hospital and there is romance on the horizon. That is until her world comes crashing down around her. When she tries to help an injured prisoner of war at the hospital, she ends up implicated in a crime.

Written during the pandemic, when the world was marooned at home and consigned to scrolling screens, On Browsing’s essays chronicle what we’ve lost through online shopping, streaming, and the relentless digitization of culture. The latest in the Field Notes series, On Browsing is an elegy for physical media, a polemic in defense of perusing the world in person, and a love letter to the dying practice of scanning bookshelves, combing CD bins, and losing yourself in the stacks.