Selim Özdoğan

‘It has epic simplicity. Özdoğan’s language is plain, but it carries with it the author’s sympathy with his characters, including the contradictory ones.’ Süddeutsche Zeitung Part one of the Anatolian Blues trilogy. Told with great affection for his characters, Selim Özdoğan’s trilogy traces out the life of Gül, a Turkish girl who grows up in …

Francis Nenik

‘…particularly peculiar, breath-taking and worth telling.’ Alexander Solloch, NDR Kultur. Francis Nenik’s thrilling slice of narrative non-fiction »Journey through a Tragicomic Century« is about the life of the forgotten writer Hasso Grabner, told with great joy in language and love of absurdity. The journey takes us from the Young Communists in 1920s Leipzig to wartime …

Lucy Fricke

‘Splendid. Uproariously funny and movingly beautiful.’ Der Spiegel. Lucy Fricke’s Daughters tells the story of two women, pushing forty, on a road trip across Europe, each of them dealing with difficult fathers along the way. A bestseller and booksellers’ favourite in Germany, Daughters evokes laughter and tears by way of life and death, friendship and …

Sandra Hoffmann

‘Sandra Hoffmann is one of Germany’s most exciting contemporary writers. […] An incredibly dense, finely woven text that immediately grabs you and pulls you mercilessly in.’ Brigitte Woman. Sandra Hoffmann’s »Paula« is a moving piece of autofiction about the writer’s relationship to her grandmother, a devout Swabian Catholic who refused to reveal who fathered her …