Lázár

An astonishing book - a multi-generational family story filled with deeply original characters and gripping scenes, at times realistic, at times disturbingly dreamlike. This novel would be an event in any case. But the fact that its author has only just reached adulthood turns its publication into a thunderclap. A truly great writer steps onto the stage, in full possession of his powers – Daniel KehlmannThe new magician … A magnificent novel … The splendour and misery of an entire era * Die Zeit *A first-class page-turner … the most astonishing discovery of the season * Süddeutsche Zeitung *A vivid, strange story that sustains its tension * Dazed (Most Anticipated Novels of 2026) *Lázár proves worthy of the commotion: a keenly observed work that blends youthful verve with a seasoned wisdom… With Biedermann, fiction becomes the space in which both the vast sweep of history and the intimate, corporeal realities of those living through it can be apprehended, rendering the repetition of tragedy not abstract or statistical, but painfully, vividly human * European Literature Network *

Nelio Biedermann, born in 2003, grew up on Lake Zurich. His paternal family is of Hungarian nobility; his grandparents fled to Switzerland in the 1950s. Biedermann studied German and film studies at the University of Zurich. His novel Lazar will be published in more than twenty countries.