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And in doing so, he Selected by New Books German lays bare the foundations of the Western world. in Kenah Cusanit’s debut combines the history of ideas, contemporary history and adventure. Babel is a novel that changes our view of the present. Kenah Cusanit Babel 272 pages. Hardcover Publication date: As if Robert Koldewey didn’t suffer enough from the opinions of his assistant Buddensieg, January 2019 he also suffers from appendicitis. The excavation of Babylon involves human problems and a task of biblical proportions. What drives Koldewey to document the Mesopotamian treasures on the Euphrates is a change that is taking place between the East and West Kenah Cusanit that will shake the foundations of the world to the present day. The cradle of civilization born in 1979, lives in Berlin. She is an orientalist and is exposed, stone by stone, to one of the last universal scholars – and with it, the origins ethnologist, and has recei- of one of the oldest histories of the Bible, the Tower of Babel. ved several awards for her Kenah Cusanit’s literary expedition to the heart of the West is an archaeological exami- essays and poems. nation of modernity that resonates, enchants and impresses. A German archaeologist – and a task of biblical proportions Peter-Andreas Hassiepen Peter-Andreas © »A book that towers over everything else in contemporary German-language literature this spring.« Denis Scheck, ARD Druckfrisch »For a long time, there hasn’t been such an accessible story about a city in literature as in Kenah Cusanit’s novel.« Paul Jandl, NZZ 1 FICTION FICTION 2 FOREIGN RIGHTS HANSER LITERATURVERLAGE FOREIGN RIGHTS HANSER LITERATURVERLAGE MORE QUOTES AND PRAISE KENAH CUSANIT »Babel is a fascinatingly complex book »Kenah Cusanit has presented us with impressive for its encyclopaedic breadth, technical a fantastic debut! Babel is impressive, both depth and intellectual density.« Roberta De Righi, AZ linguistically and formally.« Stefan Gmünder, Der Standard »An erudite, entertaining, and sometimes simply downright funny novel, »Babel is a history of culture and thought peppered with scholarly a Babylonian Rhapsody. The author has succeeded in creating a comic and narrative means, an academic thriller aiming to disillusion, masterpiece from the get-go. She indulges with relish in the farcical episodes, which describes the year 1913 in highly condensed scenes as which the Euphrates Excavation Company so richly provides. But with a light a pivotal period of world knowledge.« Michael Braun, Tagesspiegel touch, as if in passing, she also inserts every important fact about the historical city and excavation of Babylon into the narrative flow, as well as the myths that »What fantastic material, what an exquisite blend of worldly and have surrounded the Tower of Babel since biblical times.« Sigrid Löffler, SWR lesenswert intellectual matters on a major historical scale as well as a small personal one! Kenah Cusanit throws herself into the mix with wit and a taste for punchlines.« »Kenah Cusanit has written far more Friedtjof Küchemann, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung than a historical novel. Her language is »This anthropologist’s debut is a pure delight. Because discovering such an unusual voice is as precious as finding a piece of Babylon. And then colourful, innovative and reflective.« knowing that there is more to come – more of this writing, which resembles Gundula Ludwig, NZZ am Sonntag an excavation, like when Koldewey is uncovered, layer by layer, in endless, calm sentences that drive on and down; more of this unexpected sheer wit.« »A splendid and fantastically clever Anne Haeming, SPIEGEL Online celebration of multilingualism.« Paul Jandl, NZZ »It's the world history as a farce and a babble of voices that Babel unfolds, but the sardonic intelligence of Kenah Cusanit illustrates the sublime traits behind it.« Ijoma Mangold, Die Zeit FICTION TAKIS WÜRGER On the SPIEGEL bestseller list With tempo and force, Takis Würger tells a love story from the year 1942. A story about fear and hope, a dancing SS man, squirrels and betrayal. A story based on true events. Takis Würger Stella 224 pages. Hardcover Publication date: Friedrich comes from a sheltered background on Lake Geneva, a quiet young man in January 2019 search of the truth. He moves to Berlin and rents a room at the Adlon Hotel. At a drawing class, he meets Kristin. She takes Friedrich out on nights in secret jazz clubs. She drinks cognac with him and she gives him his first kiss. In the Berlin she inhabits, he can ima- Takis Würger gine that the war is far away. born in 1985, reports from Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq for the news magazine Der Then Kristin disappears and when she returns, she is broken. Welts from whiplashes cover Spiegel, among others. He her body. She tells Friedrich the truth: Kristin is not her real name. Her name is Stella. has won numerous prizes with his reports, including She is a Jew. The Gestapo has unmasked her and offered her a pact: to save her family, the German Reporter Award Stella has to hunt out Jews in hiding. Friedrich faces the choice: should he betray her? and the CNN Journalist Or should he betray his love? Award. At the age of 28 he went to England to study the history of ideas at Cam- bridge. In 2017 his debut Sven Döring © »Takis Würger tells a story that is in fact impossible to tell. You start novel Der Club was publis- hed, which was nominated reading this book with scepticism, continue it in suspense and terror and for the aspekte literary prize and was awarded the lit. finish it in admiration.« Daniel Kehlmann »Is there a right life in the wrong one? Würger avoids any hint of pathos, writing instead in clearly chiselled, Cologne's debut prize. artfully sparse sentences when it comes to explaining psychological circumstances. But it is the escalating state of emergency that explains everything in this slimmed down, concise novel.« Adrian Prechtel, AZ München »A tremendous little book. An early candidate for this year’s German book awards.« Wolfgang Schütz, Augsburger Allgemeine »This novel is a gripping portrayal of National Socialist brutality that ends in bitter helplessness.« J. Lau, Der Standard »There is a lot you can object to in this book.