Looking for contemporary books about living in Germany

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I used to live in Germany and enjoy reading books about life there. I'm looking for fiction, based fairly recently, so not during the war, if such a thing exists.

Go went gone by Jenny Erpenbeck - also Visitation and Kairos by Erpenbeck, but the former is set over a long time period and the latter is set in the 80s/90s

In the Belly of the Queen by Karosh Taha

This House is Mine by Dörte Hansen

Not written by a German author -

The Girl on the Stairs by Louise Welsh
Responsibility by Nigel Cox

Not sure it's the type of book you're looking for but Other People's Clothes by Calla Henkel is about two 20 something girls partying while studying abroad in Berlin, it's a contemporary mystery thriller. Can't remember how relevant Berlin is to the story though!

Amy Liptrot's memoir The Instant is about her time in Berlin.

Thanks, I'll look them up! Keep them coming 😊

Just bumping in case anyone else has more suggestions!

Have you read Germania? I really enjoyed this when DH lived in Germany, it's a history of how and why Germany is the way it is.

I haven't but I've reserved it at the library 😊

Anymore anyone?

Do you speak German? Loved Die Mütter-Mafia by Kerstin Gier.

One of the best-known contemporary German authors:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juli_Zeh

I do speak German, I'll look into that, thank you.

One of the interesting ways of picking up cultural nuances is to read detective fiction written by a native author, it covers all sorts of details.

How about The Vanishing of Katharina Linden, by Helen Grant? It's a thriller for young adults. It's set in Germany and, although the author is British, she lived in Germany for much of her childhood.

Der Pfau? (Peacock) contemporaneous fiction about some friends going to stay in a country house (possibly in the UK but the friends are all German...)
Only half way through, enjoyable so far?!

Thank you, found both those on Amazon 😊