Foreign Rights

Jenny Erpenbeck

Heimsuchung

This novel is a masterpiece.
Der Spiegel

Heimito von Doderer Literature Award 2008 +++ Solothurn Literature Award 2008 +++ Hertha König Literature Award 2008 +++ LiteraTour Nord Award 2009 +++ This novel reaches far into the German past and is an immensely powerful literary exploration.

A house on a lake in Brandenburg is the central locale of twelve biographies, stories and destinies from the Twenties until today. The building and its inhabitants experience the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, World War II and its end, the GDR, reunification and the period since then... [read more]

Linus Reichlin

Die Sehnsucht der Atome



German Mystery Award 2009
A thrilling, wonderfully straightforward first novel by Linus Reichlin. It's fun to follow him.
Kieler Nachrichten
Since his high-school days Inspector Jensen has been aware of it as a warning: the Helium atom! The Helium atom, as his physics teacher had explained, is not driven by a longing for linkage and doesn't desire symbiosis with any other atom... [read more]

Larissa Boehning

Lichte Stoffe

An entrancing novel full of lightness.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung


When Nele Niebuhr discovers the existence of a Degas painting said to have been in the possession of her now-dead grandmother at the end of the Second World War, she is not simply interested in the whereabouts of a family heirloom likely to be worth millions. For the painting is at the centre of a family secret that has been carefully hushed up ever since... [read more]

Frank Goosen

So viel Zeit

Seldom has there been a more amusing tragedy.

Max


In the summer of 1982 they were sure, that they would never die. Twenty five years later one of the four would be sitting abandoned in a half-finished house, mourning the supposed love of his life, the second would be the father of twins, but no longer have a wife, the third would be lying on a bed, wearing old underpants, in a cheap dump 375 miles to the east and the fourth couldn’t sleep at night any more... [read more]

Jan Costin Wagner

Das Schweigen

Ice Moon was great - Silence is even better.

Tobias Gohlis, Die Zeit


A girl disappears in exactly the same place another one was raped and murdered thirty-three years ago. The crime unsettles not only the police and public, but one of the two perpetrators of that past crime too…... [read more]

Wolfgang Herrndorf

Diesseits des Van-Allen-Gürtels

Like Storms of Steel but with loneliness instead of war - Eichendorff's Good-for-nothing reborn, or else Anton Reiser.

Edo Reentz, FAZ

Not so much realistic as representational, simultaneously crystal-clear and mysterious, comical and uncanny, rousing and repulsive-all of these are qualities that apply to the work of Wolfgang Herrndorf, whose carefully calibrated stories are in a class of their own. He combines the sort of craftsmanship we associate with American writers with a Germanic imaginativeness and romantic wit... [read more]

Marc Buhl

Rashida oder Der Lauf zu den Quellen des Nils

Mensen Ernst is a distant relative of Alessandro Baricco's ocean pianist, of the amazing organist in Robert Schneider's Brother of Sleep and of the olfactory hero Grenouille in Patrick Süskind's Perfume.

Die Welt


Mensen Ernst (1795-1843) was born in a little mountain village in Norway as the son of a sailor, whom he would never meet. The village inhabitants said that his father had suffered from calenture; a fever that never let him stand still and often drove him out of their narrow valley... [read more]

Jenny Erpenbeck

Wörterbuch

This is writing so intense you don't notice the brevity.

The Guardian

In a nameless country, the young girl narrator describes her earlier childhood with a mixture of idealism and hinted violence. Her father, who read her fairy tales and bounced her on his knee, stands assuredly in the background as a caring figure... [read more]

Jan Costin Wagner

Eismond

To create an investigator who is both admirable and troubled, and yet individual and sympathetic, is a gift, and Wagner has it.

Times Literary Supplement


Kimmo Joentaa, a Finnish high level detective mourns his wife Sanna, who recently died of cancer.  In a trance he sits in his office trying to continue his seemingly senseless life, questioning whether or not he can survive without her.  But an unusual murder forces him back to the realities of his job: a sleeping woman has been smothered to death, by a pillow, in her own bed. When Joentaa enters the crime scene he believes for a second that the murdered woman is Sanna, his beloved wife... [read more]

Karen Duve

Dies ist kein Liebeslied

When Life Is Just a Bowl Of Chocolates


It is 1996 and Anne Strelau is sitting on a plane bound for London, heading towards the man she has loved since her teens. Having tired of the pretence of living 'normally', she has given in to her 'madness' and decided to confront the object of her passion, Peter Hemstedt... [read more]