Fiction Autumn 2023

"Sherko Fatah tells the most exciting and tension-filled stories in German literature." FAS Sensitive and insightful, this is a heartbreaking story set against the backdrop of the conflict in the...

A glittering novel about two friends who dare to do things differently. Big changes happen when no one’s looking: this is Keller’s fearless and irresistibly original story about breaking boundari...

Former chemistry professor and womanizer Carl Kruger is lonely. He and Helen were married for more than half a century, and lived in this New York suburb for almost as long. After Helen’s death, ...

Jaffa is Sabiha and Ahmed’s home. It is where they’re raising their sons, and where they have opened their own cinema, so that they can sit in the back row and cry at Shirley Temple movies. But w...

Christmas Eve. On what is probably the quietest day of the year in Prague, Rudiš walks through the Czech metropolis on the Vltava and tells us about the river and all the old bridges, and of life...

When Nilufar was a young girl, her father moved back to Iran, leaving her behind. Now, for the first time, she travels to his home country to meet the family she never knew. In Tehran, she finds ...

It’s Karlmann ‘Charly’ Renn’s sixtieth birthday, and he’s having a big knees-up to celebrate. What he also does is take stock – with his characteristic complacency and stubbornness, and without s...

"I know what you want," he says. "You won’t get it." Muna is about to graduate from high school when she meets Magnus, a French teacher and photographer. She spends the night with him. When the B...

It’s the 9th of November, 2021. Berlin is in lockdown, but life goes on. The famous, but shy author Bernard Entremont has travelled here to accept an award – an event that indirectly touches half...

Art historian Maximilian Kisch is obsessed. For many years now, he has tried and failed to track down a missing painting by the Blue Rider painter Franz Marc. It was last seen in Hermann Göring’s...