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
More and more people fear that humanity is facing the collapse of civilization due to climate change and other crises. Some books can help us to better understand what may be in store for us
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
Tash Aw's memoir "Strangers on a Pier" is an illuminating and touching document about the search for family and national identity in times of migration
„Intermezzo“ - a musical interlude, an unexpected chess move, and now Sally Rooney’s latest novel, in which she tackles the universal themes of grief, loss and love
In "What you can get", Clemens Böckmann gives a harrowing insight into the life of a sex worker who spied for the Stasi and into the "real existing socialism" of the German Democratic Republic, which was dissolved in 1989