Freunde
2026
Fischer Sauerländer GmbH
About the book:
English title: Friends
March 2026
YA novel for ages 14+, 448 pages.
A powerful debut
Timeless and universal plea for peace
Winner of the Children's and Youth Literature Award of the City of Oldenburg 2025
Set in an unspecified country: the war is over. The Others have won and are taking power in the completely bombed-out city. Friends Tarek, Tuk, Nata and Ren sit in their basement hideout and wonder how peace will work. They are alive, yet they all bear visible and invisible scars. Gradually, they begin to open up to each other and become a sort of family. Until a dilemma challenges their bond.
Is it possible to overcome hatred for a people who have wiped out your own family? Can you love when you have experienced the worst kind of violence? Can you remain moral in a destructive world?
Eva Kranenburg sensitively weaves these questions into a compelling story.
About the author:
Eva Kranenburg worked with children of refugees from Bosnia and Kosovo at a young age. Later, as a psychotherapist, she worked with refugees from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. Eva Kranenburg is a graduate of the Academy for Children's Media, and for her manuscript ‘Freunde’ (Friends) she was nominated for the Children's and Young Adult Book Award of the City of Oldenburg in 2025.
From the very first sentences, Eva Kranenburg grips the reader with the pull of this story. With characters who are all portrayed as plausible and vivid in their own unique ways. Augsburger Allgemeine, 14.03.2026
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