German writer Nelio Biedermann discusses his debut novel, Lázár, which has set him on the path to literary stardom. A sweeping epic inspired by his own family history, the story spans from the beginning of the 20th century to the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, with nods to Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. No less than Patti Smith described it as “an exquisite and masterly pronouncement that a gifted young writer walks among us”.