...and that is probably the greatest insult to Xi Jinping. Eric Meyer (text) and Gianluca Costantini (illustrator) tell the story of Xi Jinping's life in their graphic novel "Xi Jinping, the Emperor of Silence"

Felix K. Nesi's "People from Oetimu" is a literary firework display that places an otherwise barely mentioned region of Indonesia at the heart of astonishing events

Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize winner "Orbital" shows from afar what, up close, we fail to grasp - the fragility of our planet and our solitary lives

"Dusk" brings together fragmented poetic worlds and gives them voice in three languages

Germany, the country whose inhabitants would love to be world champions in everything, holds a sad record: that of the highest number of migrants killed in the European Union. Asal Dardan goes in search of clues in her book "Traumaland"

In his impressive debut novel "Soleil à coudre" (A Sun to be Sewn), Jean D'Amérique tells, in powerful language, of precarious circumstances, and of a childhood that finds validation not only through this language

"We Do Not Part", the new novel by the recently awarded Nobel Prize winner Han Kang, tells of transgenerational trauma, a tender female friendship and a reunion with a mother. And a kind of hope

Jörg Schieke's poems in "Silverman schickt mich" (Silverman sends me) captivate with their irresolvable character, but are also a systematic poetic exploration of the legacies of the GDR

In his Booker Prize-winning "Prophet Song", Paul Lynch succeeds in transforming our fragile political present into a bleak vision more relevant than many political treatises

In "Der Teufelsgriff" (The Devil's Grip) Lina Wolff masterfully tells the story of an "amour fou" between a Swedish woman and an Italian man in Florence