'A lyrical homage to India's holiest, moodiest river.' - Financial Times Named as one of Conde Nast Traveler 's 100 Greatest Travel Books of All Time, Ilija Trojanow's Along the Ganges is a mythical journey along the great river that stretches across India for hundreds of miles. He describes a country caught between ancient tradition and astonishing modernity.

Zeno 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 age-perhaps of our entire history as a species-from an impassioned human angle.

‘”From the very first moment they realize that the Hajj—the pilgrimage to Mecca—is among the duties of each and every Muslim, the faithful long to go.” This book presents Ilija Trojanow’s journey from Mumbai to Mecca in the tradition of the rihla, one of the oldest genres of classical Arabic literature, describing the Hajj, the pilgrimage to the holy sites of Islam. Every Muslim, regardless of geographical location, is implored by tradition to undertake the Hajj at least once in their life if they are able. Trojanow, with the help of his friends, donned the ihram, the traditional garb of the pilgrim, and joined the hundreds of thousands of Muslims who each year go on the Hajj. Over the course of a mere three weeks he experienced a tradition dating back over a thousand years. This personal and enlightening account will provide insights not only for Muslims who have yet to embark on the Hajj, but for those who have already made the journey and want to see a different perspective on it. Mumbai to Mecca also presents a unique glimpse into this pivotal tradition for those non-Muslims who remain barred from the most holy Muslim sites. the pilgrimage to the holy sites of Islam, through the eyes of a Westener, but with the heart of a Muslim.

This fictionalized account imagines the life of Sir Richard Francis Burton--a 19th-century British colonial officer and translator with a rare ability to assimilate into indigenous cultures.

THE COLLECTOR OF WORLDS is a rare combination of literary achievement and popular accessibility. A bestseller in Germany, the novel is a meditation on the extraordinary life of Sir Richard Burton, one of the most flamboyant figures of the Victorian age. Burton was the first westerner to make the hajj to Mecca, and discovered the source of the Nile with Speke. His translation of the Arabian Nights is one of the great moments in the encounter between Islam and the West, a version of the Arab classic that scandalised his contemporaries with its salty eroticism. Troyanov's novel does full justice to this great, controversial mediator between cultures. The book imagines his encounter with India as a young officer, and other episodes in his life are seen through the eyes of his Indian servant; the Sharif of Mecca, who is conducting an enquiry into Burton's audacious journey and its consequences for the Ottoman Empire; and a former slave who guided Burton to the Nile.

Ein packender Abenteuerroman über den englischen Exzentriker Richard Burton, der als Offizier der Krone Mitte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts in Indien, Arabien und Afrika gereist ist, um das Wesen der fremden Kulturen zu verstehen.

Ein Essay zur Würde des Menschen im Spätkapitalismus.Wer 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.