They've announced that Tauben fliegen auf, by Melinda Nadj Abonji, has won the 2010 German Book Prize, probably the leading German book-prize (though not the leading author-prize -- which is still the preferred literary prize type in the German-speaking countries).
You can read an (English) excerpt at signandsight.com (where they translate the title as 'Falcons without Falconers'), or get your copy at Amazon.de.

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