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