Seven-year-old Kerstin loves her golden hair. And she also collects everything that is golden. When she finds a gold ring at school one day and her teacher asks the students if anyone has seen her wedding ring, Kerstin remains silent. This children’s novel, which has been awarded the Nils-Holgersson award,
The piglet Wilbur was bottle-fed by eight-year-old Fern. He now lives on a farm with Charlotte the spider and other animals. But the bucolic fantasy is put in danger when Wilbur learns that he is to be slaughtered. A work of art that is »just about perfect« [The New York
At one time, the two sisters were inseparable. But then the older one, Barbara, like her friend, develops a long- term eating disorder and increasingly isolates herself from her family. Told from the younger sister’s perspective in poetic, diary-like verse, the book chronicles her helplessness, her rage at the destructive disease, and
Two Mexican youths from different milieus: Franco, son of a wealthy family, lives in the luxurious housing estate Páradais. Polo, far less privileged, works there as a gardener. At night, the two outsiders meet, drink, and hatch sinister plans. A novel about machismo and violence, about the effects of economic
Awumey’s latest novel accompanies a young playwright from West Africa as he tries to tell the story of his rebellious youth in the face of death. It is about repression and protest, about the traces left by the horror of political captivity, and about friendship, love, and the indomitable power
Elvira Dones focuses on the fate of Albanian women who fall into the clutches of the Albanian mafia in search of a better life, and that of young men who become perpetrators. A novel about the trafficking of women, forced prostitution, and boundless violence that has sparked heated debate in
Having become known as a literary critic, Ijoma Mangold presented his literary debut in 2018 with the memoir »Das deutsche Krokodil« [tr: The German Crocodile]: »Much more than a personal story: it is at the same time a portrait of society and epoch en miniature.« [SZ] His memoir was followed
Melchior Marín, the son of a prostitute and at home in Barcelona’s underworld, learns of his mother’s murder while in prison and resolves to turn his life around after his incarceration. Years later, he lives a quiet life as a policeman with his wife and child in the barren Terra
In her family saga, the author touches on German colonial history. Before World War I, her grandparents had left Bavaria for New Guinea as Christian missionaries with a sense of duty in order to convert the »heathens« and thus experience self-valorization in a hierarchically constructed world. »Historically enlightening and emotionally
Algeria at the beginning of the 19th century: the country was under Ottoman rule when the French occupation began. The novel, awarded the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2020, sheds light on the period from the perspectives of five characters ― a French journalist, a former Napoleonic soldier, an
Helga Schubert writes an »aesthetically suggestive autobiography« [FAZ] in the almost thirty artfully crafted prose pieces »Vom Aufstehen« [tr: On Rising], and in snapshots, meditations, confessions, and protocols, she allows the familial and historical-political upheavals of a German-German life to emerge. Literature as a »current of warmth« [FAZ], as reconciliation
What are the consequences of rainforest deforestation and the cultivation of monocultures in Brazil? These issues will be addressed by agricultural engineer Gabriel Bianconi Fernandes [via live stream], former member of the Brazilian Commission for Bioethics and Ecological Law, Linda Poppe, expert on indigenous peoples from »Survival International«, and author
