📚 Hello literature loving Steemians! 📚
I'm making a little review of the best books I have read in 2020. Maybe these books can be interesting for you in 2021.
⇢LET'S START!⇠
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Tchikan by Emmanuel Arnaud & Kumi Sasaki
The Japanese author Kumi Sasaki writes about six years as a victim of daily groping on the Tokyo subway. The original book is written in French but you can also read it in English under the title Chikan. Kumi Sasaki says she was groped “nearly daily” on her commute to and from school. She was aged between 12 and 18. Her book doesn't only inform the reader about her personal story but also gives a deep inside into how sexuality is being treated in Japanese education and families.
The book also contains drawings of how this damaging abuse is happening. I found both the documentation and the artwork deeply enlightening and encourage you to read the book. It's a deep dive into the dark corners of Japanese culture and the reality of girls living in an urban environment.
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Falschaussage by Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller
The original English title of this book is called: "An Unbelievable Story of Rape" written by Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller. They received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting and the 2015 George Polk Award for Justice Reporting. This narrative nonfiction book speaks about the police investigations concerning a series of rapes in the American states of Colorado and Washington, which occurred between 2008 and 2011. It shows how victims of rape are forced into silence or even into doubting their own experience due to the way that police investigations are conducted. That victims of rape often run against a wall of doubt. But this books makes the reader understand how this happens exactly... via clever storytelling.
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Letter to a Child Never Born by Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. The English title of this book is: Letter to a Child Never Born. The sensational author is writing this book for the child she lost during the pregnancy. It is deeply personal, emotional, moving, and allows the reader to enter the author's house of feelings. The story is everything but banal. It grows your understanding of what it means to be human.
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GRM by Sibylle Berg
I would like to introduce two books by Sibylle Berg to you. Of course, she is massively famous in the German-speaking world and I would be delighted to see her books being read all over the world. For everybody who doesn't know her yet: She is a Swiss author and playwright. She writes novels, essays, short fiction, plays, radio plays, and columns - currently mainly for Der Spiegel.
GRM fascinated me in particular. It plays in a hypothetical Post-Brexit-Britain, which Berg envisions as a digital dictatorship in the making.
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NERDS by Sibylle Berg
The second Sibylle-Berg-book that I would like to present to you, is - unlike GRM - a nonfiction book: NERDS. A special thank you also to the brilliant model that offered to pose with the book. Thank you, Flötz. Nerds consists of multiple conversations with scientists and experts in their fields. What makes this book so very special is the way Berg is conducting these interviews. She allows herself and her partners of conversation to jump between topics, associate freely and still get down to the fundamental questions of our natural and social world. Above all in this context of the Corona-Pandemic, it's a great read.
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Sprache und Sein by Kübra Gümüşay
Last but not least, I would like to introduce Kübra Gümüşay to you. She is a Turkish-German author who also holds the English language close to her heart. And that's exactly what this book is about: Living, thinking, and feeling between three languages. A grandiose, enlightening piece of non-fictional literature. Half memoir, half linguistic essay. I couldn't recommend it higher.
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We hope we could inspire you to pick up one of these books and enjoy some time inside these magical pages.
Enjoy! Yours,
✨ Elena & Alessandro ✨
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