Johanna Maxl
Violence, pop culture, dirt, feminism and urban slums: In her debut novel, Johanna Maxl describes the life attitude of a generation. The literary album is the breathless story of the…
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Unter der Drachenwand Arno Geiger
Veit Kolbe spends some months at Lake Mondsee, underneath the majestic Dragonwall, in Upper Austria. Here he meets two women. However, he is but a soldier off duty, nursing his…
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Unter die Oberfläche Mojca Kumerdej
Dark, frightening things lurk beneath the surface: a woman pretends to be a loving mother to her young daughter, but on the inside she longs for her self-determined life before…
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Unternehmer Matthias Nawrat
Lipa is thirteen, and she is employee of the month in a very special kind of family business. Together with her father and her little brother, one-armed Berti, she scours…
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Unterstadt Ivana Šojat
The award-winning cult novel Unterstadt is first and foremost a novel about Osijek, especially the Osijek district of Donji grad (German: Unterstadt). It follows the ups and downs of a…
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Upotreba čoveka Aleksandar Tišma
In his novel Aleksandar Tišma’s creates powerful images to showcase how Second World War wrecks upheaval in the more or less calm lives of the people of Novi Sad and…
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Uranijumska braća Murat Baltić
A German police official loses his son in the Kosovo war. A talkative and weathered Kosovar Rom moves to Germany with his three wives and eleven children. A mysterious uranium…
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Utjeha noćnog neba Dževad Karahasan
In Isfahan, the capital of the Seljuq Empire, a highly respected man dies unexpectedly. The deceased’s son demands clarification. The court astronomer and mathematician, Omar Khayyam, takes part in the…
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Užas i veliki troškovi Robert Perišić
Robert Perišić is one of the most renowned authors in Croatia today. His first novel, Our Man in Iraq (2012), was acclaimed by the American and British press. Twenty of…
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V napačni zgodbi Cvetka Sokolov
Cvetka Sokolov’s novel for young adults deals with the theme of love. The young protagonist becomes infatuated with her teacher and the novel describes the difficulties of growing up. The…
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Vajza me Numer 67203 Liria Xhunga, Miro Xhunga
In 1944, the only 17-year-old Liria joined the Albanian partisans. Soon, she got captured by the German occupiers. First she was taken to Thessaloniki, later to Ravensbrück, where she was…
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Valdinos Jovan Nikolaidis
A prose cycle of notes, letters and essayistic texts that revolve around the mythical bay of Valdinos in Ulcinj, Montenegro. It forms the centre of the author’s historical narratives about…