In Henning's life, everything looks perfect from the outside. He has a great job and a fairytale family. However, inside he suffers from constant anxiety attacks that torment him like a demon. In search of calm, he decides to spend the Christmas holidays in Lanzarote. But, arriving at the town of Femés on New Year's morning, a disturbing memory comes over him: this is not the first time he has visited the island, and something terrible happened the first time. Something his mind has hidden deep within his consciousness. Año Nuevo is an impressive psychological thriller that stretches the abysmal enigma that is memory to the limit. A disturbing emotional tour de force that goes through the twists and turns of the self, questioning gender roles, and social conventions.
Juli Zeh is one of the great authors of contemporary German literature. She studied law in Passau and Leipzig and worked for the United Nations. In 2018 she was elected an honorary judge at the Brandenburg State Constitutional Court. Her first novel, Adler und Engel was awarded the Deutscher Buchpreis, Germany's top literary prize, in 2002 and became an international bestseller.