»An meine Kindheit habe ich keine einzige glückliche Erinnerung« lautet der erste Satz in Edouard Louis‘ Roman »Das Ende von Eddy«. In seinem neuen Buch »Wer hat meinen Vater umgebracht« sieht Louis das anders, mittlerweile versteht er die Gewaltausbrüche seines Vaters, der unter der sozialen Ungerechtigkeit einer Gesellschaft leidet, die für Menschen wie ihn keinen Platz hat. Louis erinnert sich an einen liebevollen und fürsorglichen Vater, der seinem Sohn wünscht, aus den einfachen Verhältnissen auszubrechen. Édouard Louis hat es geschafft. Eine überwältigende Hommage an den eigenen Vater und dessen gescheiterte Träume.

A group of friends from university; seven summer days in a cabin in rural Denmark. A chance to swim, sunbathe, flirt, read and spend time together like the old days. At least that’s what Sylvia had hoped. But when Gry turns up with her kids and Esben and Karen announce their wedding, Sylvia is left wondering what happened to the radical ways of living they envisaged at university. Plus, she is nursing a decades-long crush on Esben, that her monogamous, long-term girlfriend Charlie won’t approve of. Within the rest of the group, desire and anxiety swirl in equal measure. Quince finally feels at home in his body and is ready to rave, but there are children with bedtime routines. While sparks fly around the dinner table, Gry is feeling banal among her colourful, eccentric friends. Unusually, she’s also brought her husband Adam, the poster child for a heterosexual masculinity Quince can't decide if he wants to tear down or tie down. As the week progresses, discussions and flirtations intensify. A modern midsummer night’s dream for the new generation, Waist Deep adds a sensuous, ethereal flourish to the perennial what is the best way to live and love as you get older? ‘A perfume dream of a debut’ Politiken ‘Linea Maja Ernst writes about sexual desire so well that it turns her readers on’ Weekendavisen

A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer.