Bøger af Marten Weber

Six friends meet for dinner in one of the world's tallest buildings. They have known each other for years, and talk openly about their past, their hopes, and their desires. They also share a secret only patient listening will uncover. Slightly surreal, wonderfully erotic, inspiring, and thought-provoking, Marten Weber's Spanking Schubert is an unusual novel. It gives voice to a group of people who are rarely heard, hidden forever behind the screen of ancient norms and traditions. In Asian societies, which place great emphasis on family and offspring, men are under enormous pressure to conform to family expectations. Caught between the pressure of work and family, they can only dream, and some dream more vividly than others.

A Stranger in Triva is an ingenious cycle of stories about gay men and their lives. Each story offers a glimpse into a relationship, from Russia and India a century ago; in Asia, the US and Mexico today. These stories speak of love and devotion, of longing and erotic pleasure, but also of responsibility, of honor, and of deceit. As the reader travels from story to story, a magical narrative emerges which connects all the protagonists in the book across space and time. Marten Weber has created a cohesive work with incredible depth that will forever change your mind about what gay story-telling can be. These are imaginative and beautiful stories about personal fates, spanning a century and ten countries, ingeniously linked and told in the educated and engaging style Weber has become renowned for.

Imagine you are a gay man approaching mid-life in the Silicon Valley: disillusioned, unhappy, bored with life. You have a monotonous job and can count your friends on one hand; you have given up on finding love for good. Along comes the perfect man: an Australian hunk. He is intelligent, witty, suave, well-bred and stunningly good-looking. Only problem: he is straight. Nevertheless a friendship develops based on a common interest in fitness, books, philosophical speculation... and a strange sexual tension. He makes you a witness to his conquests of women. Step by step he gains control over you, and the relationship changes...until one day, disaster strikes... "Shayno is a gritty, honest and well-written description of a gay man's passion for a straight jock-with unforeseen consequences." "Deeply moving; immensely erotic, gay and straight" "Aussie hunks, Asian queens, gorgeous escorts, park rangers and a mystery to solve...refreshingly different!" "Marten Weber is an author to watch-in any genre!"

No doubt you have heard of Casanova, the famous womanizer, and maybe you've seen the movie, or read the account of his life. But did you know he may have had a gay brother? Benedetto, a few years Giacomo's junior, was pressed into service of the Church, to follow the famous lover of women through the courts of Europe. On the way he had amorous adventures with countless men, but, unlike his brother, fell in love and kept alive a romantic relationship with a strapping German soldier over time and distance. Benedetto Casanova's (fictional) memoirs were discovered only in 1881, when an English traveler rummaging through a private library in Rome found them glued to the pages of a book. They were written in Italian and have never before been published in English. Marten Weber delivers a wonderful "translation" of this challenging text, full of linguistic cunning and his usual talent for breathtaking eroticism.

Tim and Tim, an elderly couple, have been running a bed & breakfast in Edinburgh, Scotland, for over thirty years. Their relationship is one of kind love and deep trust-they tell each other everything. A handful of lodgers give the old house a lively character. Jamie, the charming American hunk who won't settle down; Javier, a Spanish cook who prefers pornography to real people; Aleysha, an Ugandan refugee and her newborn baby. Into this idyll burst two attractive young men from Slovakia. Everybody agrees that they must be a couple-why else would they be staying here? They hug and cuddle, touch each other openly, and even kiss without shame. But there is something strange about them. Something does not fit. Before long, Tim and the nosy lodgers are uncovering a secret nobody could have expected. A secret which begins to affect everyone and even threatens to unravel the landlords' long-term relationship. Marten Weber's most compelling contemporary work to date, "In the Mirror, a Monster" is a masterpiece of modern story-telling. A whodunnit without a murder, a thriller without violence, it is a captivating and authentic mystery novel, rooted firmly in the localities of Yorkshire and Scotland, but also the intricate connections of the international gay community. With a keen ear for dialectical nuances, Marten Weber offers a truly compelling read. The style is tight and to the point, dramatic and hilarious, infused with breathtaking clarity and an often magical ability to lay bare what lies behind our motivations and feelings. Marten Weber won the Rainbow Literary Award for his portrayal of Benedetto, Casanova's gay brother. Learn more about the author on www.martenweber.com.

Sometime at the beginning of the last century, Jeremiah Hudgejaw, American business magnate and socialite, is returning from England with his daughter Vivian. A boisterous monomaniac, he has a few peculiarities that guarantee a humorous crossing aboard the RMS Noricum: for one, he is a moralist, and nothing rails him more than the lavender menace-an interesting quirk for someone with an inability to distinguish between genders. At the same time, he fights for women's equality and despises the English class system. Joining him on this highly entertaining voyage are a young Australian and his father, an Austrian psychiatrist and his colleagues, a Swiss doctor with wife and mistress, a Scottish museum curator and his male companion, and finally, shipmates Jack and Jimmy, who enjoy nothing more than each other's company-and each other's bodies. Jeremiah Hudgejaw is a highly entertaining historical satire that takes a tongue-in-cheek look at topics which are very relevant a century on.

After following the famous Giacomo Casanova through Europe for ten years, Giacomo's gay brother Benedetto has settled down in Rome with his German lover. But the Eternal City bores him. He has no work and no friends. His lover is always busy and away on assignments for the Vatican secret service. Alone in a big new house, he is desperate for distraction. Just when idless and unfulfilled lust threaten to get the better of Benedetto, Carl Anton accepts an exciting secret mission to Portugal. Preparations for the long journey are in full swing when the head of the mission, a young priest, disappears, and the mutilated bodies of two young men are found. The couple is thrown into an adventure which tests their love like none before. Marten Weber spent years researching life in Rome in the 18th century and in the second book of the Benedetto Casanova cycle delivers both a fascinating and accurate portrait of the city and a riveting tale of love, madness, danger and devotion.

Marten Weber's Gabriel is a complex tale of innocence lost and love won. Against the backdrop of a rising China, we witness culture shock and racism, cruelty and greed, while also gaining a fascinating insight into the world of diplomacy and big business. Overwhelmed by the world around them, two men lose everything they believe in, in order to find each other. This fantastic tale of a modern-day angel is a parable of human avarice and selfishness, a political thriller, a story of self-discovery, but ultimately a simple love story.

In a street in Zurich, a man stands confused and bewildered. There's the bank he needs to go to, and in the hotel, a man who claims to be his husband and a young boy are waiting. They travel together across the snow-capped mountains in a train which seems doomed to derail. He has no memory of his earlier life. Nightmares of monsters and crawling insects rob him of his sanity. Again and again, he doubts his senses. Repeatedly, the image of a red-haired woman enters his mind: he wants to meet her; he knows she holds the key to this mystery. Then she is there, in the flesh: beautiful, seductive and irresistible. And his troubles have only started. Literally bursting with creativity, Marten Weber takes us on a thrilling ride with this foray into the sci-fi genre. Bodensee chronicles the confounding journey of three men as they navigate one terrifying obstacle after another, trapped in a provocative dream that seems all but inescapable. Full of surprises, twists and an array of dashing young men who battle it out-a battle of minds and perceptions-is this a vision of our future? Then she is there, in Milan, beautiful, seductive and irresistible. And his troubles have only just started.

Tim and Tim have been running a gay B&B in Edinburgh for three decades. Their relationship is characterised by kind love and deep trust. A handful of long-term lodgers give their old house a lively character. Into this B&B come two young men from Slovakia. Everybody agrees that they must be a couple. They cuddle and even kiss without shame. But there is something strange about them. Before long, Tim and the nosy lodgers are uncovering a secret nobody could have expected. A secret which begins to affect everyone, even Tim and Tim, who must come to realise the deception at the very heart of their own love. In the end not a single stone of the old B&B is left in its original place. In the Mirror, a Monster is a masterpiece of modern storytelling. Marten Weber's style is vivid, with a keen ear for regional voices, and at times has the magical ability to render, with clear compassion the human frailty behind individual actions and words.