Hacker, Katharina

Peter Stamm: In Strange Gardens
Katharina Hacker: Morpheus
Jan Costin Wagner: Ice Moon
Leonie Swann: Three Bags Full
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The Have-Nots was first published in Germany in 2006. It was the winner of the 2006 German Book Prize for best novel. The prize is richly deserved. This is a complex narrative, melding individual concerns and social issues into a highly charged, gripping text.More ...

Quite simply this modest book is a narrative tour de force. It is a sustained first person narrative, which is nothing new, but the voice, that of simple Hugo the lifeguard, is superbly rendered. It is no surprise, then, to discover that Katharina Hacker has gone on to win the 2006 German Book Prize, the second time it has been awarded, for her most recent book The have-nots.More ...