Fiction Autumn 2023

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Sherko Fatah

What You Wish For

Novel

Date of publication: August 30, 2023
Hardcover | 384 pages
"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...
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Judith Keller

Wild Maneuvers

Novel

Date of publication: September 13, 2023
Hardcover | 288 pages
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...
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Annette Mingels

The Last Lover

Novel

Date of publication: August 30, 2023
Hardcover | 304 pages
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, ...
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Joana Osman

Where the Ghosts Dance

Novel

Date of publication: August 30, 2023
Hardcover | 224 pages
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...
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Jaroslav Rudiš

Christmas in Prague

With numerous illustrations by Jaromír 99

Date of publication: September 27, 2023
Hardcover | 96 pages | With illustrations from: Jaromír99
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...
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Nilufar Karkhiran Khozani

Terafik

Novel

Date of publication: August 30, 2023
Hardcover | 256 pages
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 ...
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Michael Kleeberg

Autumn

Novel

Date of publication: August 30, 2023
Hardcover | 480 pages
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...
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Terézia Mora

Muna, or Half a Life

Novel

Date of publication: August 30, 2023
Hardcover | 448 pages
"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...
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Christoph Peters

Crows in the Park

Novel

Date of publication: August 23, 2023
Hardcover | 320 pages
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...
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Uwe Fleckner

In the Shadow of the Blue Horses

Novel

Date of publication: November 1, 2023
Hardcover | 368 pages
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...

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