Upcoming Novels of January 2024

A 2023 full of editorial releases has ended, with novels and new authors destined to be talked about in the future too (in this article all those that need to be recovered), January 2024 is ready to throw open the doors with its new features, many highly anticipated, and some rediscoveries that promise to be truly interesting.

After a traditionally ‘silent’ December on the releases front, publishers are ready to compete for the readership, leveraging guarantees but also bets. Below, some of the novels that will occupy bookshop shelves starting from the first days of January, and which promise not to disappoint expectations.

Giving life (Rizzoli)

The prize for the most awaited book goes to Giving life, posthumous pamphlet written by Michela Murgia. The author originally from Oristano wrote until a few hours after her death, which took place on August 10th. His latest work, published by Rizzoli and due out next January 9, is “a touching book about family – explains the curator of the work, Alessandro Giammei -; it was only supposed to be about ‘gestation for others’, and it has become a most profound book on the meaning of parenthood and kinship”.

Murgia tells in 128 pages, starting from her own personal experience, another model of motherhood, how one can give life without generating biologically, how soul bonds can add to blood bonds. Pages that want to enter into the infinite facets of affection and make people understand how opening up to others does not reduce but amplifies love”.

At home (Fazi Editore)

It will be released in Liberia on January 16th by Fazi Editore At home by Judith Hermann, award-winning German bestselling author. The novel tells the story of a mature woman who escapes from the roles of mother and wife, leaves the past behind and takes control of her life.

The plot. The protagonist, a middle-aged woman, left her husband after her nineteen-year-old daughter left home. Without significant relationships outside the family unit, she moves to the seaside, to a house of her own on the north-eastern coast of Germany, near a small village where during the summer season she will work in her brother’s brewery. As she continues to write letters to her ex-husband and think about her globetrotting daughter, she forms temporary friendships with strange local characters, attempts a love affair, remembers her past life, and wonders what will become of her. future.

All the details in the news (Mondadori)

Antonio Manzini, creator of deputy commissioner Rocco Schiavone, enters the Mondadori crime catalog with a story that questions the balance between law and justice, and what we would be willing to do to heal our wounds.

All the details in the newsout on January 9, revolves around the figures of Carlo Cappai, a court archivist, who spends his time studying the files of old cases, in particular those in which the accused was acquitted “for not having committed the crime” , and of Walter Andretti, a journalist who will improvise as a detective starting from those folders.

The golden needles (Neri Pozza Beat)

Neri Pozza bets again on Michael McDowell, the American writer who passed away in 1999: after the saga of Blackwatera real editorial sensation of 2023, will be released in bookstores on January 16th The golden needles, a work that Stephen King called “captivating, terrifying and absolutely brilliant”. Thus he continues the publication of the masterpieces of the man who in just a few months was rediscovered as a cult author.

The plot. In 1882 New York celebrates the new year between opulence and poverty. From his home in Gramercy Park, the cynical judge James Stallworth, supported by his son and son-in-law, launches his crusade: to clean up the infamous Black Triangle, a neighborhood of taverns, brothels, opium dens and fences, over which reigns ferocious Black Lena Shanks with her clan of women versed in the arts of cruelty. But the Stallworths’ thirst for power will have to compete with Black Lena’s avenging fury.

The little stories of the Kamogawa inn (Einaudi)

After The lost recipes of the Kamogawa restaurant, Einaudi publishes the second chapter of the food detectives: Kamogawa Nagare and his daughter Koishi. The novel will be available in bookstores starting January 16th.

The plot. A father and daughter have been managing the Kamogawa restaurant for years now, known in Kyōto as the detectives of culinary enigmas, as they are very skilled in tracking down the perfect ingredients for the dishes of every customer’s heart. Between tōfu, bamboo shoots, matcha tea, wakame seaweed and dozens of other flavours, chef Nagare will help them, finding the recipes they were looking for and casting a completely different light on the most significant moments of their lives.

Marabbecca (The Ship of Theseus)

Set in an asphyxiated and mythological Sicily, crossed by blinding skies and black ashes, Marabbecca is the new novel by Viola Di Grado, released on January 12th by La Nave di Teseo. The work asks crucial questions about identity: about what it means to say “I” and about the collisions with the other that somehow tell us who we really are.

The plot. One late summer afternoon, Clotilde and Igor, after breaking up, have a car accident. She is injured, he ends up in a coma. While watching over her impenetrable sleep, Clotilde begins to receive visits from the girl responsible for the crash, a fragile ornithology student named Angelica, and an indecipherable and intense relationship is born between them. When Igor wakes up from his coma – radically transformed yet unchanged in his violent nature – his presence will wear down the precarious balance of the two women.

Fragile sparks (Garzanti)

It comes out in bookstores on January 23rd Fragile sparks by 24 year old Francesca Ventura, published by Garzanti. This is her debut novel, already published on the Wattpad platform with the title Vintage is in fashion.

The plot. Bice, in the eyes of others, appears haughty and unattainable, but there is someone who has glimpsed his fragility and entered his life suddenly, like rain on a summer day: a boy with a sunny smile and with deep dark eyes named Kento. She knows she should stay away from him, but when Kento becomes her Japanese tutor she is forced to show up for her lessons. With him, she doesn’t just learn to trace kanji, draw cherry blossoms or enjoy matcha tea. Kento talks to her about the beauty of the wounds that she Bice desperately tries to hide and that he is now filling with gold.

Ten Thousand Black Feathers (Bao Publishing)

The new story of the ‘Myth of the Bone Orchard’, the shared horror narrative universe created by Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino, features two teenage friends, who create a fantasy universe for a role-playing game. Ten thousand black feathers will be released on January 12th by Bao Publishing.

When the reality that the young people invented overlaps with the one in which they live, one of them disappears, and ten years later her friend still hasn’t stopped looking for her. She will discover that the horror from which she believes she must save her best friend is actually a trap that neither of them could avoid.

2024-01-02 01:38:31


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