Suhrkamp Insel

Juri Andruchowytsch

Perversion/Perversion

Literary postmodernism in Ukraine first saw the light of day with the publication of this novel. The godchild of Rabelais and Bakhtin, Bulgakov and Esterházy, it is a whirligig of forms, styles, and apocryphal traditions – an adventure for readers who view life not as something to lament and despair over, but as something worth celebrating joyfully with a good book.

Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

Love at a Distance/Fernliebe

Family and love in the times of globalisation: The grandparents in Thessaloniki and their grandchildren in Cambridge speak to each other every night – via Skype. A woman in the US woman and her Swiss husband are annoyed with their high telephone bills and travel expenses. A married couple in Europe fulfil their desire to have children with thehelp of an Indian surrogate mother. New forms of intimacy, love and family form the centre of this new book by Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim and Ulrich Beck.

Louis Begley

Schmidt Steps Back /Schmidts Einsicht

Summary: When we last saw Albert Schmidt Esq. (‘Schmidtie’ to all near and dear), he had been expelled from paradise: his love Carrie, the Puerto Rican waitress forty years his junior, had taken up with a blond giant nearer her age and possibly the father of her baby – assuming it isn’t Schmidt. Meanwhile, his only confirmed child, Charlotte, had proposed a truce in their perennially strained relations, which Schmidt accepted, despite its obliging him to resume dealings with her repulsive husband and her mother-in-law-cum-psychiatrist, whose life’s work has been turning Charlotte decisively against Schmidt.

Thomas Bernhard

Old Masters/Alte Meister

Selected Illustrations from the Graphic Novel Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard

Marcel Beyer

Putin’s Postbox/Putins Briefkasten

This collection of unpublished stories and vignettes by Marcel Beyer is a book about perception, style, listening, and writing.

Josef Bierbichler

Mittelreich/Mittelreich

Josef Bierbichler, the renowned German stage and film actor, tells a story that spans a hundred years in Germany. It is an epic that deals with war and destruction, old power and new wealth, and the so-called »Years of Plenty«.

Andrej Bitow

The Teacher of Symmetry/Der Symmetrielehrer

A masterfully crafted, ironically grounded, yet unabashedly melancholy novel – a stocktaking of his life and work: a masterpiece by a world class author writing at the height of his powers.

Fritz Breithaupt

The Culture of Excuses/Kultur der Ausrede

Why do people tell each other things? Why did they learn to tell stories? What cultural achievements are linked to telling stories? And what is story telling in the first place? Fritz Breithaupt gives us an astounding answer to this question.

Roman Brinzanik, Tobias Hülswitt

Will We Save The Earth?/Werden wir die Erde retten?

Roman Brinzanik and Tobias Hülswitt speak to philosophers and artists about the relationship of mankind, nature and technology and the evolution and function of stories about the downfall and the saving of our earth.

Barbara Bronnen

My Fathers/Meine Väter

Betrayal, feud, silence, and secrets – the true story of a Jewish-Austrian family of writers.

Bernd Cailloux

Losses Credited/Gutgeschriebene Verluste

Bernd Cailloux looks back from the year 2005 to the 70s and 80s in West Berlin, when this part of the city was still leading an insular life and became a Mecca for nonconformists, conscientious objectors, revolutionaries, and bohemians.

Mircea­ Cartarescu

Travesty/Travestie

Mircea Cărtărescu is among Europe’s greatest contemporary writers, visionaries and literary artists. His early masterpiece, thecoming-of-age novel Travesty, tells of a young artist’s search for his own self.

Sigrid Damm

What to do with me/Wohin mit mir

After her bestselling works Christiane und Goethe, Das Leben des Friedrich Schiller, Goethes letzte Reise and with a total number of one million copies sold, Sigrid Damm presents a new work that invites the reader to a journey through her personal life. A quest for happiness, a journey of self-discovery

Felix Denk, Sven von Thülen

The Sound of Family/Der Klang der Familie

The city is throbbing to the beat of freedom. Post-reunification Berlin was one big playground filled with infinite possibilities. In the former no-man’s-land places suddenly sprung up out of nowhere, often lasting only for a few weeks, where history was going to be written. Techno, the new youth culture that would unite East and West spread out from here at 180 beats per minute.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Tender Monster Brussels or the Disenfranchisement of Europe/Sanftes Monster Brüssel oder Die Entmündigung Europas

»Europe is on everyone’s lips these days. Mistrust is rife against the distant institution in Brussels. What, more and more Europeans ask themselves, do our largely unknown custodians do behind mirrored facades, mostly closed doors and with a highly questionable legitimisation?«

Manfred Frank

Aspects of Subjectivity/Ansichten der Subjektivität

Jürgen Habermas

On Europe's Constitution/Zur Verfassung Europas

»In the face of a politically unregulated rise in global social complexity which systemically and increasingly restricts the autonomy of the nation state, the normative function of democracy itself requires that political agency be expanded beyond national boundaries.« Jürgen Habermas

Anna Katharina Hahn

Black Mountain Side/Am Schwarzen Berg

Nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2012 »A godsend for German literature.« Ina Hartwig »She pulls out all the stops – and gets away with it.« Wilhelm Genazino

Peter Handke

The Great Fall/Der Große Fall

This is the story of a single day in the life of an actor, a flâneur, who is walking through a big city on a warm summer’s day, from the morning until the dead of night, from the city’s outskirts to its centre.

Christoph Hein

Weiskern's Legacy/Weiskerns Nachlass

Has life become a forgery?