Every Saturday [sábado] is followed by a Sunday [domingo]. In this case, there are 25 years in between. Federico is 18 when he goes through a tumultuous Saturday night with a friend and a waitress that he later barely remembers. At 43, he attends a Sunday school party for his
Winner of the 2020 International Literary Award, the »Balzac of Iran« [Berliner Zeitung] tells the love story between the Iranian ambassador to Egypt and a Jewish woman who converted to Islam in Cairo at the end of the 1940s. He also vividly depicts the historical situation – the emerging Cold
In his poetic texts, Ilya Kaminsky makes references to archetypes, myths, and Russian literature, bringing them to life with his keen sense of rhythm and melody of the English language. »Kaminsky’s verse spans continents and centuries, and feels like it belongs to Russian immigrant dreamers, American tourists and the millions
This coming-of-age novel, which won the Jhalak Prize, is a feminist interpretation of Ugandan fairy tales. It tells of a girl growing up with her grandparents, whose painful search for her mother is linked to the process of growing up and discovering her own femininity. »It is a novel that
The so-called Grand Tour was once undertaken by young aristocrats in order to expand their knowledge through travels. Today, those who want to travel through Europe can also do so by reading: The anthology »Grand Tour« contains stories and short stories by 27 writers – one from each EU member
In a world where trees can walk, deer turn into goats, and a giant garbage whirlpool drifts through the sea off Taiwan’s coast, an indigenous youth meets a jaded academic. The writer and environmental activist Wu Ming-Yi is considered one of Taiwan’s most important voices. Now, for the first time,
Migrants, refugees, and displaced persons are the focus of Meron Hadero’s debut, who in 2021 became the first Ethiopian writer to receive the Caine Prize for African Writing. The short story collection won the Restless Book Prize for New Immigrant Fiction before it was even published. The jury stated, »With
Winner of the 2020 International Literary Award, the »Balzac of Iran« [Berliner Zeitung] tells the love story between the Iranian ambassador to Egypt and a Jewish woman who converted to Islam in Cairo at the end of the 1940s. He also vividly depicts the historical situation – the emerging Cold
War has been raging for ten years; the narrator’s two sons have disappeared. Now he and his wife relocate to the Transparent City, where transparency is the top priority. A peaceful life seems possible. But the narrator resists a world without secrets. A dystopian novel, awarded the Premio Alfaguara de
Winner of the 2021 “International Prize for Arabic Fiction”, this novel depicts a world of poverty and uprooting: a bookseller who has lost his store gets lost in the identities of characters from novels and commits several crimes until he meets a woman who changes his life. »Despite this, the
Author and translator Anne Weber, most recently awarded the German Book Prize 2020 for her novel »Annette ― ein Heldinnenepos« [tr: Annette ― An Epic of a Heroine], offers insights into her literary work and discusses the productive risk of writing between two languages: her native tongue German and the
A love-starved sea goddess lands on an island inhabited by eunuchs. A girl from Martinique moonlights as a Grace Jones impersonator. In the short stories of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize winning author, offbeat characters find themselves in extraordinary situations that catapult them into lifeaffirming, life-changing, or even life-destroying realms
