The Leipzig Book Fair is one of the most important book fairs in Europe and takes place every year in March. As the first meeting of the industry of the year, it serves as a significant platform for publishers, author and readers to present new publications and to discuss literary trends. The price of the Leipzig Book Fair is also awarded and is an important indicator for the following book prices.The Leipzig Book Fair presents five this year with the nominations for the said priceIn focus.You are currently being discussed a lot. If you want to have a say and want to know,Which novels you should definitely have on the screen in 2025, should read more now.
Kristine Bilkau succeeds withpeninsulaA sensitive, clever novel about the quiet but deep changes in life. The focus is on Annett and her daughter Linn, who live under one roof after years of distance - on a peninsula in the North Frisian Wadden Sea, which is as rough and unstable as her relationship. Bilkau unfolds a multi-layered mother-daughter portrait between unspoken conflicts, memories of the late father and the search for new orientation. It is particularly impressive how it draws the fragile balance between hope and resignation - because what do you give to the next generation if you no longer believe in a better future?
What begins as a harmless story about a broken socket, thanks to Wolf Haas, quickly develops into a literary game of patience that devours itself and spits out again. Protagonist Franz Escher is waiting for an electrician and reads a book about a mafia crown-who in turn reads a book about Franz Escher who is waiting for an electrician. Haas drives this game to such a way that reality falter until you ask yourself as a reader: Who actually reads whom here? Despite this nested construction, the tone remains laconic, the humor dry, the sentences precisely. Wolf Haas plays inLoose contactonce again with language, narrative structure and our expectations.
One would think that a few dollar notes are something quite banal, but they are full of history. In Esther's new novel, they become a symbol of a torn family, their members about Germany, Italy and thelive scattered. The story begins with a mother, an aunt and a nephew and grows into a multi -layered portrait of Jewish identity. The past and present flow into each other, while the legacy of the Shoa is reflected in the life paths of the descendants. Dischereit writes in an urgent, poetic language, which makes memory almost physically noticeable.
Ajax commandfeels like a rapid action adventure that directly from onecould come. The focus is on a Kurdish family who lives in Rotterdam and is involved in a spectacular art streak. Cemile Sahin writes a thriller with quick turns and sharpConsidered, but never loses the humanity of his characters from his eyes. The novel becomes particularly exciting by the mixture of highly dramatic scenes and profound moments that address life in exile. It is a story of identity and belonging, tells at a pace that makes it become the ultimate Page-Turner.
Paul is a Swiss decorator who lives in Stromness, a small Scottish city on the Orkney Islands. A strange, but quite lucrative order moves Paul to Norway. But it shouldn't happen that far, because his trip is completely different than expected. Even more, it leads beyond the natural and real. Kracht leaves us inAirTravel through a landscape that seems to fluctuate between dream and reality, blurring the limits of time and space. The narrative style is as puzzling as it is captivating. Hardly any book is discussed as much as this. Of course, this novel, which is less tangible in the best sense, has made it to a nomination for the price of the Leipzig Book Fair. We are excited to see who receives the award.The price will be awarded on March 27, 2025.
