As of: January 31, 2024, 5:32 a.m
By: Sven Trautwein
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2024 also has a lot to offer in terms of literature.
The publisher's previews promise some highlights you'll love.
We present four of them to you here.
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This doesn't change anything for you.
The days between the years weren't that long ago and you may have spent a few hours in your favorite place reading 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 are eagerly awaited.
The literary year 2024 is eagerly awaited.
Elke Heidenreich is also presenting a new novel.
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Four novels that are worth reading in 2024: Caroline Wahl “Wind Force 17”
Caroline Wahl achieved 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 takes up the story from the debut.
Characters that we loved in the first volume are back.
Anyone who loved “22 Lanes” will also enjoy this book.
Ida has nothing with her except her mother's old, scuffed hard-shell 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.
Ida is really bad at saying goodbye;
she didn't even make it to her mother's funeral two months ago.
At the train station she chooses the train that goes the furthest away and ends up on Rügen.
Without a plan, just 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 ruthless, in short: wise.
She reflects on her own existence, which primarily means looking at her connections to other people.
As you get older, you reap the consequences of all your actions.
But over the years comes a certain calmness and the realization: “Most things are completely unimportant.
You should just breathe and be grateful.” For everyone who doesn’t want to grow old so much.
Light-footedly tells how you know Elke Heidenreich.
Monika Maron's “Das Haus” shows how you can spend your twilight years in a retirement community.
Everyone wants to grow old, nobody wants to be old.
The contradiction is absurd, the suffering from it is 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: pre-order hardcover €20, 112 pages
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Bodo Kirchhoff “Since he shared 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 desires that we humans seek and what happens to us if we don't follow our desires.
Four days before the peak of summer, where Louis Arthur Schongauer, once a gloomy German in Hollywood films, 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.
His animal, for which there is only a here and now, becomes all the more important to him... Bodo Kirchhoff's new novel is about the longing for people who recognize us and the abysses that open up when we follow this longing.
Blurb/dtv
Bodo Kirchhoff “Since he shared his life with an animal”
2024 dtv, ISBN-13 978-3-423-28357-1
Price: pre-order bound €24, e-book €19.99, 384 pages (different format)
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Gabriel García Márquez “See you in August”
The worldwide simultaneous publication of a previously unknown work by the Nobel Prize winner 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 cheese and ham toast alone at the bar in the evening.
This time, however, a man invites her for a drink.
It doesn't correspond to her background or upbringing or her idea of marital fidelity, but she still accepts his advances and takes the stranger with her 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 bound €23, e-book €19.99, 144 pages (different format)
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