Percival Everett retells Mark Twain's young adult novel Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the slave Jim - "James" is a tragicomic novel about racism, identity, human abysses and friendship

"Trophy", Gaea Schoeter's novel about big game hunting and Africa, is an intelligent and passionate introspection into post-colonial sensitivities and a Western morality that has degenerated into a luxury product

Yandé Seck's debut novel "White Clouds" masterfully explores the search for identity of two adult sisters with a migrant background without losing sight of the ambivalent, woke German present

"Songs for Times of Darkness" - the lives of four Lebanese women in a novel by Iman Humaidan