Lazar

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

The 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 - Suddeutsche Zeitung

A vivid, strange story that sustains its tension - Dazed (Most Anticipated Novels of 2026)

Lazar 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

Gothic and fairytale-esque, it's a definite page-turner - Service 95

Biedermann not only shows plenty of skill as a novelist, but wisdom well beyond his years. His imaginative capacity and desire to engage with both the discomforts of history and the cornucopia of dead authors who inspired him gives you - at least, it gave me - a cynicism-killing hope for the future of literature. Lazar, above all, shows that the drab realism of too many millennials doesn't cut it for the generation now coming of age. To Gen Z novelists, that style is past its sell-by date. This is the future now. - Telegraph

Fabulous is the word for this twisted modern fairytale - The Times