A sleepless performance artist tries to keep hold of herself between caregiving, work, and online conversations. Love and fiction, loneliness and release, collide in a voice that moves lightly even as it brushes against mythic images.

In the weight of everyday life, fiction becomes the only doorway to freedom.

Set in an elite boarding school in Vienna, the novel follows Till as he tries to find his place between authoritarian schooling and the world of gaming. Friendship, first love, loss, and Age of Empires 2 lock together as the engine of a coming-of-age story.

Between school and gaming, it searches for the shape of freedom in adolescence.

A non-binary narrator follows a path that begins with a grandmother’s dementia and moves through family silence, matrilineal memory, the body, class, and the limits of language. The result is a story of self-exploration and self-unmaking that keeps shifting shape.

It traces unnamed fractures again through experiments in language.

喪失や変容、身体とアイデンティティを巡る物語。多視点の構成と詩的な言語で、個人の苦悩や関係性の揺らぎを描き、ジェンダーや帰属に対する鋭い問いを投げかける。

喪失や変容、身体とアイデンティティを巡る物語。

The life of Anne Beaumanoir in free verse.

The life of Anne Beaumanoir in free verse.

A memoir-like novel about the author’s own origins, migration experience, and family memory. With humor and insight, it asks what origin means and how language and home shape belonging and identity.

Set on Tenerife, this novel moves backward through the twentieth-century memories of several families and the island society around them. An old gatekeeper's past, civil war, class, and colonial traces converge, inscribing private family history and political history onto a single island landscape.

On an island of eternal spring, family secrets overlap with Europe's memories of violence.

欧州連合の“首都”ブリュッセルを舞台に、官僚制や権力のあり方、市民と制度の距離を描く群像劇。風刺的かつ批評的な視点でEUの運営や言説を描き、政治的アイデンティティを問う。

欧州連合の“首都”ブリュッセルを舞台に、官僚制や権力のあり方、市民と制度の距離を描く群像劇。

A novel of chance encounter and a brief journey that explores love, loneliness, and the possibility of approaching another person.

A single night quietly alters the outline of a life.

An experimental novel that reconstructs the turmoil of West German history and personal memory through the voice of a 13-year-old narrator.

Fragments of history are dismantled and rearranged inside one boy’s mind.

A family saga centered on East Germany that shows the exhaustion of political ideals and the ruptures between generations as private life and state history intersect.

A sweeping East German family saga.

The novel follows Helene Wesendahl after a stroke, as she relearns speech, memory, and bodily control while confronting the life she left behind. It is a stark, compassionate account of illness, identity, and the work of returning to life.

A novel of illness, memory, and the difficult return to life.

Set in 1980s East Germany, the novel follows a doctor’s family and their circle of intellectuals as it depicts the contradictions and repression of the state. Everyday detail, surveillance, and personal ethics converge in a dense portrait of a society coming apart.

An epic family novel about a collapsing East Germany.

This epic novel follows a woman’s life from the years before the First World War through the interwar period and traces its impact on her children. It carefully explores motherhood, abandonment and forgiveness, and the deep damage caused by war.

A mother-child rupture set within the long sweep of history.

Set in Berlin and other urban spaces, the novel uses its characters’ material and emotional lack to examine the thinning out of contemporary life. It traces how desire, ethics, isolation, and consumption shape their choices.

A cool, precise portrait of urban loneliness and deprivation.

Set in a small Austrian town, the novel follows a family’s changing life over time. Memory, generational misunderstandings, loneliness, and the warmth of relationships all intertwine in a delicate portrait of how history shapes ordinary lives.

The outlines of family and era emerge from the smallest details of everyday life.