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      • Love on Bad Days
        Fiction
        January 2023

        Love on Bad Days

        by Ewald Arenz

        A Book About Love and the Courage to Let It Happen From their first meeting, Clara and Elias know that they are meant for each other. This changes everything: Elias can no longer suppress the fact that he is stuck in a false life with his girlfriend. And Clara realises that it is time to give up her self-imposed solitude. But there is the age difference and her unresolved feelings of guilt following her husband's death. Elias, on the other hand, doesn't really know how to stand by anything in life, because as an actor he knows how to rescue himself from reality into the play again and again. The wild happiness of the first days is followed by the first test, and the two doubt and fight with and for each other. Can one, no longer quite young and laden with life experience, find and live love once again, or even for the first time? The answer is: Yes! Is it possible to find love again – or for the first time – when you’re no longer young, and weighed down with heavy baggage?

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      • Sorrow of All Kinds
        Fiction
        July 2022

        Sorrow of All Kinds

        by Mariana Leky

        Warm-Hearted, Clever, Subtle, Comforting, Delightful "Everyone seemed squeaky clean on the inside, only on the inside of us it looked like Hempel's under the sofa," kiosk owner Armin thinks to himself as he tries in vain to meditate successfully. And there is also disorder inside the other characters in these literary columns: Mrs. Wiese can no longer sleep, Mr. Pohl is permanently despondent, Lisa has her first lovesickness, Vadim's hands are trembling, Mrs. Schwerter urgently needs to relax, a sad patient has lost his flock and psychoanalyst Ulrich is messing with transience. Grief of all kinds plagues the people who manoeuvre through everyday life, sometimes better, sometimes worse. But sorrow also unites them, for example when problems are not solved on walks, but at least come out into the open and into the light. Clever, humorous and with a great sense of subtlety and absurdity, Mariana Leky portrays the situations of people who do not lack trustworthiness, but rather the courage to realise that, fortunately, one cannot permanently avoid life.

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      • 22 Lengths
        Fiction
        April 2023

        22 Lengths

        by Caroline Wahl

        The Empowerment of Two Sisters: a Compelling, Luminous Debut  Tilda’s days follow a strict schedule: the supermarket till, maths homework, the swimming pool, cooking, looking after her 10-year-old sister Ida — and, on bad days, her mother too. The three of them live in the saddest house on Fröhlichstraße in a small town which Tilda loathes. After all, someone has to be there for Ida, someone has to earn money, take responsibility. They have no father in their lives anymore and their mother is a depressive alcoholic; she tries, but the situation runs away from her more and more. Then Tilda is offered a PhD position in Berlin, and her future flashes before her, promising freedom and possibility.  But how can she leave Ida alone with their mother? And when Viktor, Ivan’s older brother who Tilda used to be friends with, appears, her life goes off the rails. Viktor has an unabashed grin and swims 22 lengths at the pool just like she does. Viktor is there for her when the situation at home spins out of control... 22 Lengths is a raw, tender story about shitty conditions, the devastation of family life, and finding happiness somewhere between responsibility and freedom.

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      • Bloodbook
        Fiction
        July 2022

        Bloodbook

        by Kim de l'Horizon

        A Book to Shake Perceptions and Certitudes – a Book that Will Change You The book’s unnamed protagonist, who feels neither male nor female, is prompted by their grandmother’s slide into dementia to investigate their family history. The more their grandmother forgets, the more the narrator tries to remember: what was it in their childhood that prompted them to feel so alienated from their body? Does it have something to do with the family’s hushed-up history of incest? Why is their grandmother struggling to differentiate between herself and her sister who died young? And what happened to their youngest great aunt who disappeared when she was young? Tracking down answers to these questions proves difficult because the family has a habit of keeping quiet about such matters. At the heart of it all is the question of self-determination: how to exist when your own body is never a given, but is instead constantly having to be negotiated? Singular in its style and form, Bloodbook deals with our intangible heritage, the things we carry without being asked: stories, genders, identities, trauma, languages, class affiliations. Kim de l’Horizon searches for other kinds of knowledge and traditions, other stories and ways of becoming: feminist, witchy, bought with blood, and those that leave a hole in their wake. De l’Horizon leaves the linear, monotonous form of family stories behind and opts for a fluid, streaming form of writing which softens instead of pinning down.

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      • Not Out Of this World
        Fiction
        November 2022

        Not Out Of this World

        by Anne Köhler

        If someone offered you a place to hide out from your life, would you take it?   Linda, Friederike, and Valentin move into a peculiar hotel and get the opportunity to change their lives   A magnificently told, tragicomic, and hope-giving novel about how terrible and how wonderful life can be all at once   An Invitation to Disappear Hempel has no dreams. No, really. Unlike most people, he’s reasonably content and there’s nothing in particular that he’d wish for his life. So everything would be great if it weren’t for his girlfriend Elfie, who’s obsessed with her own dreams: “Don’t dream about what your life could be, live your dream,” is her motto, emblazoned on her living room wall in gold script. So Hempel invents his own dream for Elfie: running the New York marathon. But when Elfie enters him into the race and he is accepted, he’s got a problem. Friederike has everything she could wish for: she’s a successful professor, she has a great husband and, at the age of forty, she’s just become a mother. Everyone around her thinks she must be on top of the world – but it’s quite the opposite, and she wishes she could disappear out of her life forever. One day, Hempel and Friederike are presented with precisely this opportunity: to disappear for a time and leave everything behind them –  in a hotel that doesn’t host tourists but people who have lost their footing. They can stay as long as they like, take some time out, think their lives over until it all becomes clear. But when Hempel and Friederike meet Linda, who has an extreme fear of heights, and Valentin, the owner of the hotel, any notion of peace or care goes out the window... ‘Not Out Of  The World’ tells a story about the loneliness at the heart of people, about lies and unspoken truths, and about many different kinds of disappearing. Anne Köhler employs plenty of imagination and humour to expose the unfathomable and the absurd in the everyday and reveals people with deep-seated insecurity in our supposedly secure modern western world.

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      • Café of the Invisibles
        Fiction
        February 2022

        Café of the Invisibles

        by Judith Kuckart

        A novel about the power of telling and listening The Worst Catastrophes Take on a Meaning when They Are Told Seven very different people sit at the phones of the telephone counselling service. Rieke is studying theology and prepares for pastoral care in her night shifts. Wanda is a collection manager in a GDR museum and the only one who suspects early on that the majority of the callers will be poor, elderly and East German. No one but her is so well prepared for the yesterday that won't stop talking in the today. Not even Matthias, although he knows how present the past can be: His father let himself roll in front of a train on a Saturday afternoon long ago. For Matthias, life since then has been a puzzling task whose solution he hopes to find through the beautiful Emilia. The retired radio editor Niedlich, unhappy Marianne and the 80-year-old narrator von Schrey complete the group. All seven learn that listening, more than giving advice, can soothe the hopelessness of a sleepless night. They learn that their own life experience also becomes more worldly in the process. The conversations with a paedophile fleeing from his addiction, with a woman threatened with homelessness and many who can no longer sleep or feel tell of worlds they do not know but share in listening. The biographies of the listeners touch those of the invisible, who hardly anyone sees in a success-oriented society, not even on the street. A filigree web emerges that fishes lives as unspectacular as they are tragic out of the darkness of untold stories. Every situation has a story that you have to know in order to understand the whys and wherefores. Every moment has its biography, and every biography its riddles.

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