These are the best books in 2018

1. Annie Ernaux: "memory of a girl"
About everything Important in your life Annie Ernaux had already written, only one event is left out: As you experienced as an 18-Year-old to her "first Time" with a supervisor of a vacation colony. Ugly, humiliating, embarrassing, repressed. After 55 years, the great French writer is approaching that summer. And recognizes as foreign and they became "the girl who I was". The process of recovery of the former perception is achieved through reflection, through old letters, the Chansons of the time, and remains unfinished. A tremendously dense, rich, wise book – and a contribution to the #Me-Too-debate from an unexpected historical perspective.

2. Thomas Hürlimann: "homecoming"

Triumphant return to the Swiss literature , spinning happily as never before.

3. Peter Stamm: "The gentle indifference of the world"

master wins the CH-book price. With his most enigmatic novel.

4. Francesca Melandri: "All except me"

Sensation from Italy: Colonial, families and migration history.

5. Waguih Ghali: "Snooker in Cairo"

The best novel of Egypt? A young man sits anywhere between the chairs.

6. Stephan Thome: "God of the barbarians"

Historic civil war helps to understand today's China better.

7. Christina Viragh: "One of those nights"

Switzerland for the third: pastime on a night flight.

8. Angelika Klüssendorf: "years later,"

the conclusion of the trilogy: a depressing drama, terrific told.

9. Kristine Bilkau: "love in thoughts"

a love Can take a lifetime to fulfill? Perhaps because of this.

10. Joshua Cohen: "book of Numbers"

For Advanced users: Cohen, the history of the Internet tells as a cultural battle.

Agree? Something is missing? Suggestions, please enter below. (Sunday newspaper)

Created: 18.12.2018, 15:02 PM