Books That Travel 2023

Black Resistance is an accessible history of enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Caribbean and Latin America, from the...

Black Resistance is an accessible history of enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Caribbean and Latin America, from the begin- ning of European colonialism to the present day. Written in a reportage style, it discusses their struggles and spirit of resistance.

A novel about truth and fantasy, appearance and reality, yoga and poetry - as poetic, funny and quirky as a...

A novel about truth and fantasy, appearance and reality, yoga and poetry - as poetic, funny and quirky as a Pedro Almodóvar film. A writer retreats to a remote monastery in Spain. But bizarrely enough, everything he experiences there seems to come from one of his novels. The monastery's cook, a former matador, reinforces the writer's belief that he has already foreseen everything. In the course of the turbulent story, the two of them swing further and further into an alternative reality. 

This Spiegel bestseller is a profound and clever novel about the most glamorous woman of her time, full of humour...

This Spiegel bestseller is a profound and clever novel about the most glamorous woman of her time, full of humour and insight into human nature. When Elisabeth (Sisi) becomes Empress of Austria through marriage, she enters a strictly regimented world full of stiff conventions and boring receptions. She can only es- cape when she is on extended trips or staying at her Hungarian castle, Gödöllő, where she can lead an unconstrained life and pursue her greatest passion: wild horseback hunting.

Nominated for the German Book Prize 2022. What is art? A window to the world and a mirror of the...

Nominated for the German Book Prize 2022. What is art? A window to the world and a mirror of the soul, or just an enigmatic picture in which “original and fake” are distin- guished? In Spitzweg the narrator learns through the eccentric Carl, his new class mate shortly before graduation, how it works: art as

a form of existence. Together they pay homage to the beautiful in a sublime hideaway.

Drawn from Ferdinand von Schirach's eminent career as a criminal defence lawyer, Punishment masterfully treads the line between fiction and...

Drawn from Ferdinand von Schirach's eminent career as a criminal defence lawyer, Punishment masterfully treads the line between fiction and truth, each meticulously crafted story crackling with white-knuckle suspense and vivid characters who stay with you long after the final page.

Baskerville, 224pp, 978-1-5293-4568-1

Dinçer Güçyeter tells of the fate of Turkish Greeks, of being rooted in Anatolian life, and of the challenge of...

Dinçer Güçyeter tells of the fate of Turkish Greeks, of being rooted in Anatolian life, and of the challenge of starting a new life as a guest worker and as their descendant in Germany.

The year is 1944 and Veit Kolbe, a young German soldier, injured fighting in Russia, is recovering at Mondsee, a...

The year is 1944 and Veit Kolbe, a young German soldier, injured fighting in Russia, is recovering at Mondsee, a village and a lake below Drachenwand mountain, close to Salzburg in Austria. Here he meets Margot and Margarete, two young women who share his hope that sometime, sooner or later, life will begin again.

Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016) was a member of the Gruppe 47 writers’ group, which sought to renew German-language literature...

Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016) was a member of the Gruppe 47 writers’ group, which sought to renew German-language literature after World War II. From a wide-ranging literary career that encompassed all genres, Squandered Advice was Aichinger’s sole poetry collection.

 

Seagull Books, 112pp, 978-0-85742-978-0

Women in world-famous paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Courbet, Schiele, Munch. We see their bodies, their looks, their...

Women in world-famous paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Courbet, Schiele, Munch. We see their bodies, their looks, their clothes, spellbound or banished to an eternal moment. But who were they outside this moment? Martina Clavadetscher has followed the clues of their lives, letting the women tell their stories and thus giving them back a voice.

Inspired by Virginia Woolf's classic "Mrs Dalloway," Ulrike Ulrich paints a panoramic picture of our lives in Europe - polyphonic,...

Inspired by Virginia Woolf's classic "Mrs Dalloway," Ulrike Ulrich paints a panoramic picture of our lives in Europe - polyphonic, with her own tone and literary brilliance. It’s the Swiss National Holiday and Alexa is celebrating, as every year, with a roof top party But Kamal faces deportation to Tunisia. A gay men are persecuted there he asks his German teacher Zoltan if he can go into hiding with him for a few days. Zoltan says no for reasons he does not want to admit to himself. Events escalate over the course of the day.  

Shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2022. Lies about My Mother is two things at once: the story of a...

Shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2022. Lies about My Mother is two things at once: the story of a childhood in the 1980s, increasingly overshadowed by the father’s obsession that his wife’s excess weight is to blame for everything he can’t get: a promotion, social advancement, recognition in the small-town community. It is also an examination of these events from the perspective of today: What really happened back then? And what does all this tell us about the bigger picture: about society, which constantly affects us, whether we like it or not?