Perfect for a wonderful evening on the couch!
Now that we are all in the middle of the winter period, there is nothing better than curling up under a blanket with a good book. Curious which books should not be missing from your list? We list 6 new books!
I’m not saying goodbye
Man Booker Prize Winner Han Kang with I Don’t Say Goodbye, her long-awaited new novel. It is about a writer who, at the request of her friend – who is in hospital – travels to the South Korean island of Jeju to take care of her bird. When she arrives at the house, the island is ravaged by snowstorms and she is confronted with the past and the bloody uprising on Jeju from 1948-1954. A powerful novel about the journey from death to life, resilience, pain and, above all, unconditional love.
€24 Singel Publishers
Snow storm
Blizzard is the latest of the many thrillers released under the pseudonym ‘Suzanne Vermeer’. This time a photographer, Rianne, leaves for a job to the North Cape, the northernmost point of Europe. In a fishing village she meets Aron who wants to show her the real north, away from tourists. Along the way, they find the body of a man deep in the woods. Suspected victim of a hunting accident, but then Aron suddenly distances himself from Rianne.
€17 AW Bruna Uitgevers (from January 16)
Reykjavík
Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland, and internationally award-winning thriller author Ragnar Jónasson collaborated on the thriller Reykjavík. A cinematic ‘Scandi’ in the style of Agatha Christie and based on a true story. 15-year-old Lára has a summer job with a couple on a small island, just off the coast of the capital Reykjavík. Then she disappears without a trace. The missing person case grows into Iceland’s largest unsolved case. Thirty years later, a journalist begins his own investigation, but it slowly becomes clear that someone is doing everything they can to prevent the case from being solved.
€21 AW Bruna Uitgevers (from January 4
Waiting for my arrest at night
Waiting for my arrest on the night of Uyghur Tahir Hamut Izgil is about the political, social and cultural destruction of his homeland. One by one, Izgil’s friends disappeared, at a time when the Chinese government’s persecution of Uyghurs had been going on for years. More than a million people disappeared in so-called ‘re-education camps’. The poet decides to flee when the park near his house is almost empty because so many neighbors had already been arrested. A painful call for the world to recognize the catastrophe and a tribute to Izgil’s friends.
€25 The Busy Bee
Morisaki’s bookstore
Things are not going well for 25-year-old Japanese Tatako. When her relationship ends, she quits her job and leaves to help her uncle Satoru in his antiquarian bookstore. In exchange, she can live above the store. There she finds comfort in reading books and regains her strength. Morisaki’s bookstore is feel-good where the writer dares to tackle distressing themes in a light-hearted tone.
€21 Meulenhoff (from January 9)
Before it gets late
The new Kader Abdolah is about the writer who wants to go home, but returning is impossible. An arrest awaits in Iran. Yet he manages to enter his homeland in a cunning literary manner. But his parental home turns out not to be the place he longed for. His demented mother no longer recognizes him and he seeks refuge in his family’s old observatory on the roof of the house. Using telescopes, the writer takes you to ‘our original home’ where we all come from, but he also focuses on his homeland, where women have rebelled.
€25 Prometheus
Are you a real bookworm? Then you’ve come to the right place, because that’s what we at the Elegance editorial team are too! You will regularly find lists of the latest books that should not be missing from your must-read list. Read-them!
Text: Jorrit Niels | Image: Adobe Stock
