Reality as conjecture
Lorraine Kinnear
Tlotlo Tsamaase's Afro-futuristic dystopia "Womb City" is a furious amalgam of "Minority Report" and cyberpunk classics, but then emancipates itself as confidently as its post-feminist heroine
Language can also be a weapon
Paula Winkler
In her novel "Vierundsiebzig" (seventy-four), Ronya Othmann comes close to the limit of human suffering. It is an important travel novel on places of crimes against humanity and an impressive journey into the depths of one's own self.
A popular classic as a subversive masterpiece
Michael Avedon
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Percival Everett
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
People must be crazy
Sébastien Van Malleghem / Zsolnay
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Gaea Schoeter
"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
Trapped in narratives
Nils Heck
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Yandé Seck
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
Julien Salinas
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Iman Humaidan
"Songs for Times of Darkness" - the lives of four Lebanese women in a novel by Iman Humaidan
Ruthless accuracy
Edgar Selge. © Muriel Liebmann / Rowohlt Verlag
Edgar Selge's autofictional journey into his childhood is an astonishing debut. I'd love more of it.