Finn-Ole Heinrich, born in 1982, is one of the most acclaimed young german authors. His short story collection die taschen voll wasser was published by mairisch Verlag in 2005, picking up enthusiastic reactions from readers and critics, as did his following books Räuberhände and Gestern war auch schon ein Tag. His books for children (published at Hanser Verlag and later with us) such as Frerk, du Zwerg or Die erstaunlichen Abenteuer der Maulina Schmitt and Trecker kommt mit, won several prizes for best german children's books.
Finn-Ole Heinrich
The Boy with the Robber's Hands (Räuberhände)
Novel
Following his highly praised short story collection Pockets full of water, The Boy with the
Robber’s Hands is Finn-Ole Heinrich’s first novel. The award-winning author
and filmmaker tells the story of Janik and Samuel, whose intense friendship is put to the test
by a dramatic experience. Everything that previously held them together seems to have been
questioned in a matter of minutes.
208 pages (54,350 words)
Finn-Ole Heinrich
Yesterday was also a day (Gestern war auch schon ein Tag)
Short Stories
Susan is missing a leg. Tom fell down the stairs. And Henning lies until he tells the truth. Finn-Ole Heinrich writes about people who began to sway, who life knocked over with full force. And who have to get up again now. Finn-Ole Heinrich is one of the big talents of Germany's contemporary literature scene. In their honesty, linguistic clarity, sensibility and also in their humour, theses stories leave a long lasting impact on the reader. Storytelling at its best.
160 pages (40,000 words)
Stevan Paul, born in 1969, lives in Hamburg. Today, the skilled cook works as a food-stylist and author, he writes culinary texts, columns and travel coverages for magazines and newspapers. His cookbooks are bestsellers. His blog Nutriculinary is one of the most read food-blogs in Germany.
Stevan Paul
The big Glander (Der große Glander)
Novel
In his first novel The big Glander author Stevan Paul tells a tale of how food can become art. But it is also a story about love, coming home and the freedom of being able to always reinvent ourselves. The result is a passionate declaration of love for cooking – and a lot of fun.
288 pages (70,000 words)
5,000 copies sold in Germany
Stevan Paul
Land of plenty (Schlaraffenland)
A book about the comfort of warm rice pudding, the art of cooking a lentil dish and the imponderables of love.
Short Stories
With profound humor author and cook Stevan Paul tells 15 cooking stories, led by the search for the modern land of plenty. That non-magically place is right behind the changing rooms of a berlin department store, it is located in Sweden's snowy forests, at the beach of the island of Sylt, in the depths of the internet, in the kitchen of a long closed mountain hotel and on the ground of an empty soup plate. And of course there is a matching recipe at the end of every story.
192 pages (41,000 words)
11,000 copies sold in Germany (Hardcover, Paperback, E-Book)
*1985. He is an author and a mediator of literature. Since 2007 he has been touring with his reading performance through the German-speaking countries. He works with adolescents and young adults in cultural education and organizes literature events. He lives in Cologne.
Dorian Steinhoff
The light of the flames on our faces (Das Licht der Flammen auf unseren Gesichtern)
Short Stories
In seven short stories Dorian Steinhoff examines the question on how we actually control our life. He gives his caracters a harsh, direct tone and manages at the same time to let them appear tender and vulnerable in all their defeats and shortcomings. He succeeds in illuminating them in a very special way.
168 pages (54,000 words)
He worked as a copywriter, photographer and journalist. He is also an award winning novelist who published, among others: Kometen (Kiepenheuer und Witsch), Die Nacht der Könige (Piper), Meeres Stille (Piper), Alles was du siehst (C. H. Beck). He was poet in residence at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Two of his novels have been turned into movies and received international awards.
Stefan Beuse
The Book of Wonders (Das Buch der Wunder)
Novel
Penny and Tom are siblings, but quite different. Penny trusts in life and believes in miracles, whereas Tom always needs scientific explanations for everything. But as more and more unexplainable things happen, he has to develop his own sense of truth. He realizes that the membrane between visible and invisible world has become permeable.
Twelve years later: Tom is successfully working in an advertising agency, when suddenly strange events occur: An old police file is reopened, a mysterious girl knows a lot more than she should, and someone seems to follow Tom. It's in this situation when Tom remembers "The book of wonders", his sister's legacy, which which sends him on a journey on which nothing is sure - and Tom has to face his true self.
A gripping and poetic novel about the biggest of all quests: The search for ourselves.
224 pages (40,000 words)
*1971. He is a writer and psychologist based in Hamburg. He has published severeal highly acclaimed novels and two
collections of short stories. In a touching epilogue Michael Weins tells the reader how much of Golden Rider is real and part of his own childhood.
Michael Weins
Golden Rider (Goldener Reiter)
Novel
What happens when a single mother seriously loses her nerves and is finally committed to a psychiatry clinic? Jonas Fink, her son, loses all protection a child usually can take for granted. He tries to pretend that everything is normal. Because everything that happens is normal, at least for him. Michael Weins succeeds impressively in captivating Jonas' year of change in powerful images and stylistic decisiveness.
208 pages (52,000 words)
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