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FICTION >> New Books in German
Judith Zander:
DINGE, DIE WIR HEUTE SAGTEN
dtv · München, 2010 · 480 pp
THINGS WE SAID TODAY
Nominated for the shortlist of the German Book Prize 2010
A story about everyday living in the provinces, about friendship and betrayal, and about life itself.
Michael Kleeberg:
DAS AMERIKANISCHE HOSPITAL
DVA · München, 2010 · 240 pp
THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL
Nominated for the longlist of the German Book Prize 2010
Michael Kleeberg's new novel presents two sharp X-ray images of two very different patients at The American Hospital in Paris. The story that those images tell however is that of war:
Ilma Rakusa:
MEHR MEER · Erinnerungspassagen
Literaturverlag Droschl · Graz, 2009 · 321 pp
MORE SEA · Literary Passages
Swiss Book Prize 2009 · Rights sold: French, Hungarian, Slovenian, Serbian, Arabic
Ilma Rakusa’s memories of her childhood follow tracks of a girl born to a Hungarian mother and a Slovenian father, shifting between Budapest, Ljubljana, Trieste and Zurich.
Clemens Berger:
DAS STREICHELINSTITUT
Wallstein · Göttingen, 2010 · 420 pp
THE INSTITUTE OF STROKING
An extremely funny, clever novel about an endearing good-for-nothing who meets with sudden success.
Claus Stephani:
BLUMENKIND
SchirmerGraf Verlag · München, 2009 · 382 pp
FLOWER CHILD
A novel like a fairy-tale, as beautiful as it is cruel, set in the remote and archaic world of the Carpathians. A love story among the Eastern Jews, based on real events.
Roman Graf:
HERR BLANC
Limmat · Zürich, 2009 · 220 pp
MR. BLANC
Sold to France + Turkey
Melancholic, sceptic and yet not overloaded, this literary debut features its very own, unobtrusive humor.
Jochen Schimmang:
DAS BESTE, WAS WIR HATTEN
Nautilus · Hamburg, 2009 · 319 pp
THE BEST WE HAD
It was not only the German Democratic Republic which collapsed after the Berlin wall was torn down, the old Federal Republic of Germany went down as well.
