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När piloten Lovis blir gravid börjar hon plötsligt drabbas av mardrömmar och panikångest. Hon blir sjukskriven från jobbet hon älskar och försöker navigera i livet på marken där relationerna är allt annat än enkla.

Varför håller aldrig hennes relationer och varför drabbas hon plötsligt av all denna ångest?

Minnen börjar sakta puttra upp till ytan men de är svåra att greppa. Vad symboliserar bläckfisken med sina åtta armar som vill ta på henne, dra ner henne i djupet? Och vems ögon är det som ibland flimrar förbi? Vattniga ögon som stirrar. Lovis är fast besluten om att hitta svaren, för att fullt ut kunna bli den bästa mamman till sitt barn, äntligen hitta kärlek och få återvända upp i luften, flyga fritt och långt.

I boken får vi följa Lovis men även bästa vännen Gustav som älskar henne över allt annat, mamma Gunilla, styvpappa Carl samt en präst. Nutid varvas med dåtid. Historien vävs samman och nystar upp den fruktansvärda sanningen.

Kommer sanningen förstöra allt eller släpper den henne fri?

Deeper Ground, Darker Shadows is the memoir of Eddie L. Quitoriano, who grew up in a rural part of the Philippine island of Mindanao and eventually became one of the top organizers of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and commander of the party’s New People’s Army (NPA). Coming to political consciousness as a university student, Quitoriano chooses revolution over the priesthood and embarks on a life of unforeseen danger. Sent abroad as an envoy to seek military assistance from sympathetic governments and other radical factions, he travels from the Sandinistas in Nicaragua to Syria, Libya, North Korea, Peru, Brazil, and Yugoslavia. Quitioriano finds revolutionary life thrilling but dangerous, with secretly arranged meetings and drops, doctored passports, and hastily planned plastic surgery. He wrestles with the global implications of his work, experiences daily struggles to survive in always-changing political circumstances, and is profoundly human in his love and concern for the family he has left behind in the Philippines. What emerges is a view of international revolutionary movements that only an insider could write. Quitoriano provides an essential and unique missing piece of twentieth-century Philippine and leftist history. The book includes a critical introduction by Patricio N. Abinales and Francisco J. Lara Jr., situating Quitoriano’s story within the larger context of Southeast Asian political history, as well as a foreword by Patricia G. Steinhoff.

The political history of Thailand since the overthrow of absolute monarchy in 1932 has conventionally been interpreted as a long series of popular struggles for representative democracy and against military authoritarian rule. Yoshinori Nishizaki argues that this history can be better understood as one of struggles by elite political families for and against “dynastic democracy”—a form of democracy that is characterized by the patrimonial transmission of power between members of select ruling families. Dynastic Democracy suggests it is these familial-based contestations for political ascendancy that underlie the tumultuous politics of Thailand, a country that has experienced no fewer than twenty-two coups over the course of the past century.  Drawing extensively on Thai-language primary sources, including assets documents and cremation volumes for deceased politicians and their kin, Nishizaki traces the intricate blood and marriage connections among Thailand’s political families. These families may fall into two categories: influential commoner families that have held parliamentary seats since 1932 and form the core of Thailand’s dynastic democracy; and upper-class families that are kin to or aligned ideologically with the royal family and have repeatedly challenged dynastic democracy through coups, constitutional changes, and other political maneuvers. Nishizaki’s exploration of dynastic democracy illustrates how democratic pluralism in Thailand has been consistently stifled, to the detriment of ordinary citizens. Dynastic Democracy fleshes out a widely acknowledged yet heretofore empirically unsubstantiated facet of Thai political history—that in Thai politics, family matters.