In "Edo's Souls", Stella Gaitano condenses family history, civil war and the female experience into a novel of poetic force and analytical clarity, impressive also in its language and structure

Between political amnesia and diaspora experience, Su Chang shows in her compelling debut novel "The Immortal Woman" how violence is perpetuated in bodies and biographies. Even where freedom is promised

Colonialism, the Anthropocene and the place of literature: A reading between text and context of Dorothee Elmiger's "Die Holländerinnen"

Iryn Tushabe's novel "Everything Is Fine Here" is a fascinating coming-of-age novel about queer self-empowerment, religious fanaticism and the political violence of everyday life in Uganda today

Scholastique Mukasonga's "Sister Deborah" is a fascinating literary genealogy about Christian mission, apocalyptic expectations and colonial order

Oyinkan Braithwaite's "Cursed Daughters" tells of curse, memory and self-empowerment - between Lagos, family ghosts and the question of whether origin is destiny or just narrative

In his transcontinental family history "Tabak und Schokolade", Martin R. Dean reconstructs Switzerland's colonial entanglements using a wide variety of memory media

‚Bound to Violence‘ by Malian writer Yambo Ouologuem was republished as a Penguin Modern Classic, a series of books self-defined as “shaping the reading habits of generations since 1961”

Lavie Tidhar's "Adama" is a stark portrait of Israeli history, exploring violence, hope and self-destruction. An unusual thriller that demonstrates how no ideal remains unscathed when people have to live with it.

Halim Youssef's "Liebe im Schatten der dunklen Flaggen" is a poetic masterpiece about surviving in the darkness on the Iraqi-Syrian border