Fiction Spring 2022

On a cool, cloudy day in June 1922, Walther Rathenau, the Weimar Republic's newly appointed foreign minister, gets into his chauffeur-driven convertible and sets off for the ministry. He has just...

May 1932. With a daring plan to paddle to Cyprus and back, and just enough provisions to last the trip, Oskar Speck slides his folding kayak into the water. He plans to be back in six months. But...

A man is drifting in the ocean, clinging on to a cool box. He can't remember anything of his life, except just brief flashes of memory. Through them, he tries to work out who he is, and how he en...

Ulrike Draesner has an ear for interstices and subsongs, the songs beneath songs – voices that you don't usually hear. These verses from the past twenty-five years, many published here for the fi...

Ines and Kirsten thought they would be best friends for ever. But their friendship is shattered when Ines isn't there for Kirsten during a desperately difficult time. The two girls never meet aga...

When the young parents Franziska and Coordt find a lovely – and affordable – flat in one of Munich's best neighbourhoods, it's the opportunity of a lifetime. But there's a condition attached: it ...

Luise is intelligent, Luise is independent, Luise is an island. She has also gained a reputation as an excellent marine biologist. Her specialty is the sea walnut, a ghostly illuminated jellyfish...

During his flight from the Nazis in September 1940, Walter Benjamin takes an old smugglers' route that leads from the French border town of Banyuls-sur-Mer to Portbou in northern Spain. Shortly a...

Walter Kempowski is one of the most important German authors of the 20th century, his works have been translated into numerous languages, and James Wood called his novel "All for Nothing" a "mast...

Four very different siblings have gathered in their old family home. They haven't seen each other in a long time, but have come to look after their mother, who suffers from dementia, while their ...