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On Easter days, immerse yourself in foreign stories with a good novel.
This can be done very easily with the four newly published books.
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The Easter celebrations are just around the corner.
Between Easter dinner and visiting family, it's a good idea to retreat with an exciting book and immerse yourself in history.
While Norwegians love to read crime novels at Easter, here are four newly published novels that you can read in your favorite place over the Easter period and that you won't want to put down.
Four novels for Easter
Easter is just around the corner: four novels that are worth more than just as a gift © Thomas Warnack/dpa
Jens Steiner “The Edges of the World”
Kristian, a descendant of Estonian immigrants, spends his early years in post-war Basel.
There he forms a close bond with Mikkel, the boy next door.
Mikkel, always looking for exercise, was drawn to Denmark at an early age.
There he joins a community of young artists.
A little later Kristian follows him to Denmark.
Kristian also discovers new inspiration for his sculpture there.
But then Mikkel throws Kristian's life off track when he enters into a relationship with Selma, Kristian's great love.
Anger chases Kristian through the world, all the way to distant Patagonia, where he can start over.
It wasn't until many years later that Kristian traveled back to Europe and received a mysterious letter that sent him on the small ferry to Christansø...
Blurb/Hoffmann and Campe
Jens Steiner “The Edges of the World”
2024 Hoffmann and Campe, ISBN-13 978-3-455-01710-6
Price: Hardcover €25, 304 pages
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Paul Murray “The Sting of the Bee”
The book, which was named one of the ten best books of 2023 by both the
New York Times
and the
Washington Post
, is now available in German.
You should take some time for the 700 pages.
But this time is well spent.
In Ireland, “The Sting of the Bee” was even named novel of the year.
May many hearts fly to the title here too.
Compelling, humorous and clever, this work is a tragic-comic epic about family, fate and the complex task of remaining a good person in a crumbling world.
The Barnes family is in trouble.
Dickie Barnes' lucrative car business is no longer running.
But instead of facing the problem, he starts building a bunker in the woods.
His wife Imelda, who sells her jewelry on eBay, finds the advances of Big Mike, the rich cattle rancher, increasingly attractive.
Blurb/Publisher Antje Kunstmann
Paul Murray “The Sting of the Bee”
Translated by Wolfgang Müller
2024 Verlag Antje Kunstmann, ISBN-13 978-3-95614-581-0
Price: Hardcover €30, 700 pages
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Bernardine Evaristo “Zuleika”
In her latest novel, the renowned author of the bestseller “Girl, Woman, etc.” takes us into the world of a modern girl in ancient times.
Zuleika, a young black girl, moves through vibrant London during the Roman Empire era.
As a descendant of Nubian immigrants, she grew up on the streets.
When she was eleven, her father gave her away in marriage to a wealthy patrician.
But Zuleika doesn't accept her fate without a fight.
She persistently fights for her freedom in a metropolis where money, sex and power write the law.
The
Times
hails the novel as a “triumph.”
London, 211 AD: Zuleika is stubborn, quick-witted and extremely beautiful.
And she is mostly on her own.
But her freedom comes to an abrupt end when her father marries her to an old, fat Roman at the age of eleven.
Despite all the adversities, she makes the best of her situation.
In her golden cage she reads the great poets, begins to write herself and secretly goes around the houses with her old friends.
Blurb/Tropes
Bernardine Evaristo “Zuleika”
Translated from English by Tanja Handels
2024 Tropics, ISBN-13 978-3-608-50238-1
Price: pre-order hardcover €25, e-book €19.99, 264 pages (varies by publisher)
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Gabriel García Márquez “See you in August”
Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, known for his masterful works of magical realism, conquered the world with his bestsellers “100 Years of Solitude,” “Chronicle of a Death Foretold,” and “Love in the Time of Cholera.”
A decade after his death, another book by the Nobel Prize winner for literature is now being published: “See you in August”.
Although García Márquez, who suffered from an advanced form of dementia, expressed his desire not to publish any more books, his two sons still published this short novel.
More about the book here.
Gabriel García Márquez “See you in August”
Translated by Dagmar Ploetz
2024 KiWi, ISBN-13 978-3-462-00642-1
Price: Hardcover €23, e-book €19.99, 144 pages (different format)
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