New publications for the Frankfurt Book Fair
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With these seven novels you can read them during the fall and winter!
The books are coming! Frankfurt before the opening of the world’s largest book fair.
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Frankfurt There are also thousands of new posts this year. As usual, you can read only broken. These seven novels should be on the shortlist.
From today on, people will be reading day and night! The Frankfurt Book Fair is trying to revitalize and stimulate the desire to read. We offer a manageable list of recommendations from great new novels:
Tip 1 He won’t be coming to the Frankfurt Book Fair, but everyone is talking about him and his new book, and rightly so: Jonathan Franzen, the vaunted American author, has written a new novel, well, an epic! It’s over 800 pages thick, and that’s just the beginning. Because with “Crossroads” the trilogy will have its miraculous start. It became a wonderful novel set in the Midwest on December 23, 1971. In one day, a family story unfolds that reflects everything that moves us and the world: crises of faith big and small, our doubts, our happiness. In short: Franzen reflects a great epic jigsaw on a small scale. And for everyone who is impatient after reading it, let him say: The first 78 pages of Part Two must have already been written.
informations Jonathan Franzen: “Crossroads.” Translated by Bettina Abarbanel. Rowohlt, 826 pages, €28
Tip 2 Julia Frank, winner of the 2007 German Book Award, is one of the somewhat quieter German authors. This also has to do with the way you tell, which is never too loud, never flashy, but always poetic and poignant. And the fact that she called her new book a short story rather than a novel – despite its 370 pages – also had something to do with it. Julia Frank doesn’t want to talk about her life in a big way, she gives us a wary glimpse into her bumpy, difficult and uncertain life. Spaced Worlds is the name of the influential book, and it’s more than just an autobiography.
informations Julia Frank: “Worlds Apart.” Fischer Verlag, 368 pages, 23 €
Tip 3 Canada is the host country for this book fair, and luckily we found Kenneth Boehnert’s love stories as a result. “Toronto” is the rough title of his stories, but the subtitle invites you to read: “What Holds Us All Night”. Because perfectly happy love is only found in dime-a-dozen novels, Bonnert tells of people who are looking for a partner and who have doubts in life. Four masterfully interconnected stories that trace the life paths so typical of our times. A narration, candid, and engaging book that doesn’t just carry us at night.
informations Kenneth Bonnert: “Toronto. What carries us through the night.” Translated from Canadian Stephanie Schaeffer. Diogenes, 250 pages, 22 euros
Tip 4 This novel is as unusual as its title: “The Telephone” tells about wildlife in the forests of western Russia, and therefore about life with animals that we know only from the zoo; It tells us about the existence in great and difficult solitude. This life is an experience of returning to harmony with a world far away from us. And the zoological couple, Nadia and Leo, step in. There is a lot of idealism, but also a lot of disappointment. Dutch Marinette de Moor – daughter of artist Hebe de Moor and author Margaret de Moor – lived and worked as a journalist in Russia for several years. And it brings this unknown world and unknown life closer to us in colour, especially in tones, in noise. An incredibly sensual narration of stories from a cruel, inhospitable world.
informations Marinette de Moore: “Telephone.” From the Dutch by Bettina Bach. Hanser, 338 pages, 24 euros
tip 5 “I should not live. Many people share this opinion with me, and I can understand them.” Books begin with such sentences that often end poorly. In this particular case, he is the author and program of work. So Hakan Nasir struck again – and gave us long nights Sleepless to read. “Barbarotti and the Sad Bus Driver” is the name of his novel this time around, which of course isn’t as sad as it sounds. It all seems like a breather for Inspector Barbarotti and his colleague Eva Bachmann, who is his partner and who unfortunately is suspected of improperly using a firearm during the operation. to the police. Until the results of the investigation emerge, the two withdraw into autumn seclusion on Gotland. The reader knows more than the book’s two protagonists that there is no peace and quiet there. Barbarotti sees a man he thinks he knows: perhaps the bus driver who was the victim of a violent crime six years ago. However, The body has not been found.A book for all Nesser fans as well as for those who finally want to become one.
informations Håkan Nesser: “Barbarotti and the bleak bus driver”. Translated from the Swedish by Paul Berf. BTB, 413 pages, €22
Tip 6 The novel is really a difficult one. But not because it is difficult to read, but because its story is so bittersweet. It is the story of a mother and son. By Agnes, who wants to escape from the slums of Glasgow and who, despite great effort, is repeatedly subjected to alcohol and abuse. Next to her is her young son Hugh, an extraordinary boy who does everything to lovingly save his mother from the final fall and the small family of two from the abyss. This concern and anxiety of the boy stands out, and everyone calls only Hugh Shoji – Shoji Payne. But circumstances do not mean good with either; It’s the notorious Thatcher years. And in many cities, mass unemployment and the struggle for survival are raging. “Shoji Pine” is the debut novel by Douglas Stewart, who grew up in Glasgow and worked as a fashion designer in New York. This book made a huge impression when it was first published and won the Booker Prize last year. It is a reading experience this fall.
informations Douglas Stewart: “Shoji Pine.” Translated from the English by Sophie Zeitz. Hanser, 493 pages, 26 euros
Tip 7 Finally something completely different. This is a book by more or less three authors: One of them, Dennis Schick, is the famous television literary critic who throws unpopular books in the trash in front of the cameras. The other is Christina Schenk, a bookseller and journalist, who has participated in the National Championship Tests in the Dog Sports Championships for three years in a row. And that’s what matters now: with the Jack Russell Terrier Stubbs. He is basically the third member among the authors of this strange and funny book: The Non-Dog Dog. It’s a love story between a woman and a man and, as I said, a Jack Russell Terrier. There are quite a few dog love stories in the meantime. Much worth reading, this one in particular. Have a lot of fun with her.
informations Dennis Sheek, Christina Schenk, Stubbs: “The Non-Dog Dog.” Keppenhauer & Wich. 288 pages, 22 euros
