Fiction Spring 2021

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Thea Dorn

Solace

Letters to Max

Date of publication: February 8, 2021
Hardcover | 176 pages
"How are you?" When Johanna receives a postcard with this seemingly harmless question from her old philosophy teacher Max, all breaks loose: the grief over her mother's death; the anger at the ho...
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Siba Shakib

The Cherry Tree She Never Gave Her Mother

Novel

Date of publication: April 26, 2021
Hardcover | 368 pages
Middle-aged Anoush's life has reached a turning point: her friend Anouk, like herself the daughter of an Iranian father and a German mother, who was like a sister to her when they were children i...
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Juli Zeh

On Humans

Novel

Date of publication: March 22, 2021
Hardcover | 416 pages
Dora moved to the countryside with her little dog. She desperately needed a change of scenery, more freedom and room to breathe. But Bracken, the small village in Branden-burg, is not quite as id...
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Timo Blunck

The Optimist

Novel

Date of publication: March 8, 2021
Hardcover | 352 pages
Charlotte Keller is an unconditional optimist. Shortly before her eightieth birthday, she takes in the runaway bridegroom Toygar Bayramoğlu. Over two days, in her flat in an old people's home on...
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Jarka Kubsova

Mountain Country

Date of publication: May 24, 2021
Hardcover | 288 pages
Rosa is a woman like no other in Tiefenthal. During the early 1940s, while the sons of South Tyrol are being consumed by the war, the youngest daughter of the Breitenbergers remains behind on the...
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Matthias Jügler

The Forsaken

Novel

Date of publication: March 1, 2021
Hardcover | 176 pages
What would you forget, if you could? Johannes looks back on his childhood in East Germany, and the cracks that ran through it: his mother's early death, his father's mysterious disappearance. Al...
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Takis Würger

Noah

By one who survived

Date of publication: March 1, 2021
Hardcover | 188 pages
Noah Klieger was 13 when he joined a Jewish underground organisation during the German occupation of Belgium helping to smuggle Jewish children to Switzerland. Noah Klieger was 16 when he arrive...
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Jaroslav Rudiš, Nicolas Mahler

Creatures of the Night

Date of publication: February 22, 2021
Hardcover | 144 pages
One night, one city, and two friends who know that there's nothing greater than the truth of the moment when the pubs close. Drifting from one beer to the next and one tale to the next, two creat...
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Anja Hirsch

What Dora Left Behind

Date of publication: March 15, 2021
Hardcover | 336 pages
Isa's marriage is in trouble. Deeply hurt, she flees to Lake Constance. In her suitcase are old letters and diaries belonging to her mysterious grandmother Dora. To take her mind off things, Isa ...
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Eva Ladipo

Robbers

Novel

Date of publication: March 8, 2021
Hardcover | 544 pages
When the social housing flat he lives in with his mother is sold, Olli Leber knows what it means: People like him no longer have the right to live in the centre of Berlin. But the young construct...

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