A year in the lives of a mother and daughter.
A pointy and humorours portrait of middle-class living today. Both want to break free from the straight and narrow path in order to scrutinise – and ultimately understand – one another.

A novel about the economics of love and sexuality, about the pitfalls of freedom and the art not to take decisions …

A novel brimming with vibrancy, casting a clear and alert look at old and new gender roles

Michael Köhlmeier uses a veritable treasure trove of anecdotes and curiosities from human history and leaves it to us readers to find out what kind of success lies at the heart of the individual examples.

A grand Austrian novel about youth and education under the Nazi regime.

A radical, unusual and at times more than comical tour de force in the footsteps of Max Dauthendey!

Dangerous and mysterious is the world, and in these whirring uncertainties only the text lends support.

A summer in a French fishing village at the Atlantic Ocean: extremely captivating images in Yorck Kronenbergs’ novel.

Three weeks in the summer, a hike from Vienna to Budapest

The Realisation is based on the Buddhist practice of repeatedly visualising the transience of everything in order to live more consciously.

Roman Markus’s Thingy, or Tomorrow we turn to dust is a »pretty good summer novel full of wit, drive and frenzied action.« (Jenaer Stadtmagazin)

In her debut novel, Karoline Therese Marth tells the story of growing up and coming of age in the noughties in a way that is powerful and raw, yet at the same time gentle and right from the heart of life.

Unusual views on the 20th century in Russia – a playful and sensible novel.

Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2012: »Fantastic, how the big story is reflected in the little ones« says jury member Paul Jandl.

These poems talk about time, evanescence and about sense and nonsense, in the tradition of Daniil Charms and his friends.

The 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York: in an essay and a short story, Robert Menasse analyzes how a collective shock is remembered on a personal and emotional level.

Deniz Ohde thinks in her Thought Experiments on the Secret in many different directions: she moves from the personal and individual to the socio-political and institutional aspect, explores the mystical-religious sphere and finds a way to sound out the relationship between language and secrets.

»Toni&Toni is a special, breathless text that manages completely without literal speech and paragraphs, alternating between present and memory in strong images and rhythmic language.« (Nicole Kleber)

Wiebke Porombka traces a cultural history of speed in all its forms.

Ilma Rakusa embraces Berlin and devotes an empathetic and multi-layered portrait to it.