Status: 12.01.2024, 19:00 PM
By: Sven Trautwein
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2024 also has a lot to offer in terms of literature. The publisher previews promise some highlights that you will love. We present four of them to you here.
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The days between the years are not so long ago and you may have spent a few hours in your favorite place with books. You should definitely take a closer look at these titles from 2023. In addition to the obligatory book fairs and literature festivals, there are also numerous new publications waiting to be read and discussed. We have selected four novels for you that you are eagerly awaiting.
The literary year 2024 is eagerly awaited. Elke Heidenreich also presents a new novel. © Henning Kaiser/dpa
Four novels that are worthwhile in 2024: Caroline Wahl "Wind Force 17"
Caroline Wahl landed a great success with her debut novel "22 Bahnen". Last year, she was delighted to receive the Bayern 2 Audience Award. Her new novel also promises good entertainment. In the follow-up novel, the author picks up the story from the debut. Characters that you had grown fond of in the first volume are back. If you loved "22 lanes", you will also enjoy this book.
Ida has nothing with her except her mother's old, battered hard suitcase, a few favorite clothes, and her MacBook when she leaves home. It's probably a forever farewell to the small town where she's lived her whole life. When it comes to saying goodbye, Ida is really bad; she didn't even make it to her mother's funeral two months ago. At the station, she chooses the train that goes the furthest away and ends up on Rügen. Without a plan, only with a big lump of anger, sadness and guilt in her stomach, she roams the Baltic Sea island.
Blurb/Dumont
Caroline Wahl "Wind Force 17"
2024 Dumont, ISBN-13 978-3-7558-1003-2
Price: pre-order hardcover 24 €, e-book 18.99 €, 256 pages (different format)
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Elke Heidenreich "Aging" – an honest look at growing old
Elke Heidenreich has dealt intensively with the process of getting older. The result is a work that could only have come from her pen. Authentic, open, but never merciless, in short: wise. She reflects on her own existence, which primarily means looking at her connections to other people. In old age, one reaps the consequences of all one's actions. But with the years comes a certain serenity and the realization: "Most things are completely unimportant. You should just breathe and be grateful." For those who don't want to grow old. Light-footed tells how Elke Heidenreich is known. Monika Maron's "Das Haus" shows how you can also spend your retirement in a retirement community.
Everyone wants to grow old, no one wants to be old. The contradiction is absurd, the suffering from it real. How do we learn to cope with it as best we can? Is it possible to grow old and live a fulfilled life?
Blurb/Hanser
Elke Heidenreich "Aging"
2020 Hanser, ISBN-13 978-3-446-27964-3
Price: available for pre-order Hardcover 20 €, 112 pages
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Bodo Kirchhoff "Since he shares his life with an animal"
Bodo Kirchhoff also deals with the question of aging and other topics that concern you in later years, such as questions of love and life in general. Kirchhoff's new novel is about the longings that we humans are looking for and what happens to us when we don't follow the longing.
Four days before the height of summer, where Louis Arthur Schongauer, once a gloomy German in Hollywood films, has retreated after the death of his wife. Now he just wants to live with his dog, in the middle of old olives above Lake Garda. But then a travel blogger gets stranded in his driveway while turning around, and the next day he is waiting for an author who wants to bring him out of oblivion with a portrait: two women with a feeling for the wounds in his life. This makes his animal all the more important to him, for which there is only one here and now ... Bodo Kirchhoff's new novel is about the longing for the person who recognizes us and the abysses that open up when we follow this longing.
Blurb/dtv
Bodo Kirchhoff "Since he shares his life with an animal"
2024 dtv, ISBN-13 978-3-423-28357-1
Price: pre-order hardcover 24 €, e-book 19.99 €, 384 pages (different format)
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Gabriel García Márquez "See you in August"
The simultaneous publication of a previously unknown work by the Nobel laureate is eagerly awaited. It is the story of a love that only Gabriel García Márquez can tell.
Every year in August, Ana Magdalena Bach takes the ferry to a Caribbean island to place a bouquet of gladiolus on her mother's grave. Every year, she goes to a tourist hotel and eats a cheese and ham toast alone at the bar in the evening. This time, however, she is invited by a man for a drink. It does not correspond to her origins or upbringing, nor to her idea of marital fidelity, but she nevertheless accepts his advances and takes the stranger to her room.
Blurb/Kiwi
Gabriel García Márquez "See you in August"
Translated by Dagmar Ploetz
2024 Kiwi, ISBN-13 978-3-462-00642-1
Price: pre-order hardcover 23 €, e-book 19.99 €, 144 pages (different format)
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