Old Friends
Published by Diogenes as Freunde von früher
Original Title: Freunde von früher

Béla receives a surprising phone call: the house on Zederstrasse is for sale. It’s been thirty years since he lived there with his flatmates Simone, Serdar and Kim. Since then, everyone has gone their own separate ways. Is it really a good idea for the four of them to now buy the house where they spent their years of departure? In truth, Béla didn’t ever want to settle down. As long as he doesn’t look in the mirror, he still feels young. But the only really young one is his girlfriend Kaja, who has just found out that she’s pregnant.

Contemporary Literature, Novel
272 pages
2026

978-3-257-07410-9
Micha
Lewinsky

Micha Lewinsky, born in 1972 in Kassel, is a scriptwriter and film director, including for The Friend (›Swiss Film Prize‹), Will You Marry Us? and One-Way to Moscow. He also wrote the children’s book Holly in Heaven. His 2024 literary debut Flight or Fight spent weeks on the Swiss bestseller list and was nominated for the ›Prix Médicis‹ in France.

Photo: © Doris Fanconi