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  • Page 1 — Best Books of year
  • Page 2 — for advanced readers
  • Page 3 — for politically interested readers
  • Page 4 — a book whose pictures and features please
  • Page 5 — also for young readers
  • Page 6 — rediscovered

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    Daniel Kehlmann: Tyll (Rowohlt, €22.95) The best novel of Year, best novel of this author. Owl Mirror in Thirty Years ‘ War, art by now: with Spirit, power, blood, wit, Fantasy (Alexander Cammann)

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    Susanne Wiborg: Blossoms and sly chickens (man, €18) “Chickens in garden? In middle of town? Why not? ” A small book about a great passion (Benedikt erence)

    Daniel Kehlmann: Tyll (Rowohlt, €22.95) The hero Overstands The horrors of Thirty Years ‘ War. He’s a fool and wisest of m all. A desperately funny book, Kehlmann Best (Ulrich Greiner)

    Poor Avanessian: Miamification (Merve Verlag, €12) At last philosophy gets wet feet. Poor Avanessian flies to Miami and thinks about how one can still philosophize in a presence that floods us with stimuli. (Tobias Haberkorn)

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    Édouard Louis: In heart of violence (s. Fischer, €20) A love night becomes a disastrous encounter. This brilliant novel asks: What is fear, what is your language? (David Hugendick)

    Irene Dition: Black and White (Hoffmann and Campe, €26) Everyone has to lose ir moral innocence – most amusing of all is new novel. (Jens Jessen)

    Joachim Meyerhoff: The Intimacy of Loners (Kiepenheuer Heuer and Witsch, €24) Finally, fourth (and unfortunately probably last) part of Meyerhoff series appeared: autobiographical novel tells exciting and Amourös vibrating time of n mid-twenties actor. (Tomasz Kurianowicz)

    Daniel Kehlmann: Tyll (Rowohlt, €22.95) So much blood for a crown! Kehlmann at height of his history pessimism and his melancholy wit. The world is a fool’s cage. (Ijoma Mangold)

    Sy Montgomery: Rendezvous with an octopus (mare, €28) Foreign? On each side delight in sensibility, intelligence, charm of invertebrate Glibbertiere (Susanne Mayer)

    Joachim Meyerhoff: The Intimacy of Loners (Kiepenheuer Heuer Witsch, €24) Continue with Volume 4 of this great autobiography: Now it revolves around love Handel and ater craziness. (Ursula March)

    Julia Weber: Always Everything Is Beautiful (Limmat Verlag, €24) The family, old monster. Julia Weber tells of failure, stumbling, end of illusions. of children growing up with an alcoholic and stripping mor – and yet this amazing debut novel is of a delicate comedy. (Wiebke Palmer)

    Annie Ernaux: The Years (Suhrkamp, €18) When was first time I went to cinema alone? This personal collective biography insistently tells of postwar life of women. (Iris Radisch)

    Annie Ernaux: The Years (Suhrkamp, €18) To learn from Ernaux: How to tell about yourself and how you can look at it. Self-image of a woman, born 1940, mirrored in her time (Marie Schmidt)

    James Gordon Farrell: Singapore in Stranglehold (MacDonald Seitz, €30) Long live Empire before its demise: conclusion of a grandiose trilogy, over which one forgets tea (Adam Soboczynski)

    Joachim Meyerhoff: The Intimacy of Loners (Kiepenheuer Heuer Witsch, €24) Good to know how much love fits in a life and how many love at same time. 4th Part Meyerhoff, finally (Elisabeth von Thadden)

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