After her highly acclaimed debut »Sommerhaus, später« [tr: Summer House, Later], Judith Hermann published several volumes of short stories and novels, for which she was honoured with numerous awards, including the Kleist Prize and the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. For her, writing means facing the void all over again each time:
Michael Maar gets to the bottom of the secret to great literature. Language and thought, syntax and rhythm, metaphors and crimes against style are only a few of the topics discussed and supplemented by an analysis of stylistic subtleties in German-language literature from Friedrich Schiller to Clemens J. Setz. In
In Hervé Le Tellier’s 2020 Prix Goncourtwinning bestseller »The Anomaly«, a Boeing 787 on its way from Paris to New York gets caught in an electromagnetic whirlwind. Three months later, the same plane lands again in New York, and the doppelgänger game begins. »A pageturner and an exercise in style
Gender equality would improve social, financial, and environmental conditions for everyone in the world. That’s the thesis of Linda Scott, professor emerita of entrepreneurship and innovation at Oxford University, whose book examines the role of women in the global economy. »A comprehensive scholarly analysis ― and at the same time
Miklós Mészöly [19212001] is considered to be the »father of Hungarian contemporary literature«, which has found global recognition in Péter Nádas, Péter Esterházy, Imre Kertész and László Krasznahorkai. In 2021, on the occasion of Mészöly’s 100th birthday, Edition Thanhäuser will publish the volume »Spurensicherung« with stories and essays by the
Edem Awumey’s second novel tells the story of Askia, a Parisian cab driver who was forced to flee Africa for Europe with his family as a child. Driven by the mysterious absence of his father, who came to Europe before him and disappeared, Askia believes he can track him down
Together with his father, psychiatrist Otto Kadoke travels to a distant relative in the West Bank: Anat lives there as a staunch Zionist in a Jewish settlement ― and Otto, an atheist and antiZionist, falls in love with her. With his fifteenth novel, Arnon Grunberg presents a tragicomic love story
A young lawyer observes the trial of individuals who murdered women in the Amazon. Sober in her description of the acts of violence, escalating in the protagonist’s fantasies of revenge, Patrícia Melo paints a picture of a society in which hatred of women is part of the system. »Mulheres Empilhadas«
Debates about the political and institutional treatment of colonial looted art have been shaping public discourse for some time. In curatorial practice, too, the necessity of restitution is being discussed, as well as practices of exhibiting objects in new contexts. Götz Aly [historian and author of the bestseller »Das Prachtboot«],
In Berlin in the year 2020, astonishing records from the future are found. In them, Billy, a schoolgirl, tells of the climate’s collapse in 2030, leading to the establishment of a totalitarian surveillance state. As »fascinatingly imaginative as it is frighteningly realistic« [Eselsohr], this diverse hybrid text, nominated for the
In the summer of 1914, more and more refugees travel through the small Belgian town where Alice lives with her family. But then her family, too, must flee the encroaching war into the unknown. With its »timeless and quiet story« [DIE ZEIT], this Woutertje Pieterse Award-winning book tells of loss
From the point of view of 13-year-old Hovanes, everyday life is described among a group of young people with disabilities who are cared for by two nuns in an orphanage. A second perspective is that of Ana, who writes a report about the facility. The novel – an »ambitious debut« [1001 Buch]
