As of: January 31, 2024, 5:32 a.m
By: Sven Trautwein
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The New Year is within reach.
January also offers exciting new releases.
Four book tips that are worth the wait.
2023 was an exciting year in terms of literature.
Not only was there the longest queue for an autograph at the Frankfurt Book Fair and the German Book Prize for Tonio Schachinger's “Real Age”, but also many other book titles that were very frequently mentioned in the media.
Between the lines there are always little pearls waiting for interested readers.
January 2024 also casts its shadows.
Exciting and thought-provoking things await you.
We present four titles to you here.
Exciting titles are waiting for you in January 2024.
We will introduce you to four books in more detail.
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Haruki Murakami “The City and its Uncertain Wall”
A melancholic, tender and philosophical novel about lost love, self-discovery and the possibility of overcoming walls.
The right book, especially at the beginning of the year.
The novel is worth a closer look, and not just on the author's 75th birthday.
A walled city that can only be entered by those who leave their own shadows behind: this is where the true self of the girl lives, with whom the nameless narrator falls madly in love at the age of seventeen.
He goes looking for him, reaches the city and its mysterious library, but the girl no longer recognizes him.
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Haruki Murakami “The City and its Uncertain Wall”
2024 Dumont, ISBN-13 978-3-8321-6839-1
Price: Hardcover €34, e-book €27, 640 pages (different format)
Exciting: “Oxen – Pilgrim” by Jens Henrik Jensen
Now the sixth volume of the Niels Oxen series.
After a long imprisonment, Oxen first has to find himself again and goes on a pilgrimage.
Especially on New Year's Eve and the beginning of the new year, many people think about the year ahead.
If you love exciting thrillers from Scandinavia, you've come to the right place.
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Jens Henrik Jensen “Oxen – Pilgrim”
Translated from Danish by Friederike Buchinger and Ricarda Essrich
2024 dtv, ISBN-13 978-3-423-26394-8
Price: Paperback €17, e-book €14.99, 512 pages (different format)
Historical start in 2024: “Beginnings” by David Graeber
In their comprehensive account of human history, renowned scientists David Graeber, an outstanding anthropologist, and David Wengrow, a leading archaeologist, present new approaches to connecting our civilizational origins with humanity's future.
They question our previous understanding of humanity and tell the story of humanity in a previously unknown way.
With lively and convincing presentations, they encourage us to work for a different future for humanity with more courage and determination and to shape it through our actions.
More than ten years ago, both authors began working on this magnum opus outside of their academic obligations: an anthropologist and an archaeologist use the source material available today to revive the great dialogue about human history.
This masterpiece is David Graeber's legacy.
Blurb/Velcro cotta
David Graeber, David Wengrow “Beginnings”
A new history of humanity
Translated from English by Henning Dedekind and Helmut Dierlamm
2024 Klett-Cotta, ISBN-13 978-3-608-96614-5
Price: Paperback €16, 672 pages
Crime suspense January 2024: “Spider’s Web” by Lars Kepler in paperback
Fans of Scandinavian crime novels are well aware of the thrilling tension that Nordic noir crime novels offer.
This also applies to the works of the writing duo Lars Kepler, consisting of Alexandra and Alexander Ahndoril.
Her ninth book, which focuses on the characters Joona Linna and Saga Bauer, suggests a captivating page-turner right from the first page.
With over 600 pages, it also offers plenty of exciting reading.
More about the book here.
Inspector Saga Bauer barely survived the last mission.
Before she can leave the clinic, she receives a postcard: “I have a blood-red Makarov pistol.
There are nine white bullets in the magazine.
One of them is waiting for Joona Linna.
The only one who can save him is you.” The card is signed with an anagram of the serial killer Jurek Walter.
Blurb/Lübbe
Lars Kepler “Spider’s Web”
2024 Lübbe, ISBN-13 978-3-404-19213-7
Price: Paperback €13, 654 pages
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