Rodaan Al Galidi’s new novel – based on his own experiences of seeking asylum in the Netherlands – is one of those stories that grabs your attention with its clever cover and
In All Men Want to Know, Nina Bouraoui recounts her own experiences of growing up in Algeria and France. With an Algerian father and French mother, Nina is torn between the two cou
The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero is an evocative novella set in Austria in spring 1945, during the final months of the Second World War. Thirteen-year-old Nelli has lost everythin
In this, her fourth novel, and the first to be translated into English, Durastanti paints a vivid portrait of a Rome where nothing in life comes easy. The protagonist, Caterina, is
A Girl Called Eel is an unusual take on the coming-of-age novel. In a single sentence, punctuated with commas and paragraph breaks, Ali Zamir tells us the story of Eel’s attempt
When I first picked up Real Life, the debut novel by Belgian author Adeline Dieudonné, now available in a wonderful English translation by Roland Glasser, it immediately made a bi
Readers may be familiar with Maxim Leo from his book Red Love: The Story of an East German Family (Pushkin, 2013), translated by Shaun Whiteside, in which Leo traces his family sto
The sheer breadth of writing featured in these pages is testament to the extraordinary talent coming out of Germany today, as well as to the part played by the many editors, transl
Over the ten years since the European Literature Network was created, we have reviewed, discussed and promoted a substantial number of key German literature titles. In this section
As Germany marks thirty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, New Books in German (NBG) is undergoing its own changes. After ten years leading the project, Charlotte Ryland has
