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FICTION >> Literary
Ransom Riggs:
MISS PEREGRINI'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN
Quirk Books · Philadelphia, 2010 · 256 pp · 50 photos
A spine-tingling ghost story illustrated with an unprecedented mix of staged photography and genuine Victorian-era photography, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is an unprecedented new kind of reading experience-perfect for adults, teens, and anyone who enjoys a good creepfest.
Peter Prange:
HIMMELSDIEBE
Pendo | Piper · München, 2010 · 512 pages
TRESPASSERS IN PARADISE
A story of art and love in dark times
This novel tells the story of the love of a century: the story of two people whose love and whose art kept alive the light of humanity in one of the darkest periods of European history.
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:
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.
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.
Rieko Matsuura:
THE APPRENTICESHIP OF BIG TOE P
Kodansha International · Tokyo, 1993 / 2009 · 448 pp
Sold to France (Philippe Picquier) and Italy (Marsilio)
Every decade or so a novel appears that leaves its mark on an entire generation. For Japan in the 1990s, that novel was Rieko Matsuura's The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P.
