The coming-of-age novel "Hinter den Sternen ganz nah" by Regensburg author Petra Barloli y Eckert has won over young people at this year's Book Summer Saxony and won the 2024 Readers' Prize. The young adult book received almost a third of the votes in the online voting, for which a total of five titles were nominated. According to the organizers of the annual reading event, it is designed as a complete chat story and sensitively tells the story of a 15-year-old who has to come to terms with the accidental death of her sister. The Book Summer Reading Prize will be awarded on October 23 at the Grimma City Library and includes a reading tour through Saxony.
