Foreign Rights Fiction Spring & Summer 2018
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FOREIGN RIGHTS FICTION SPRING & SUMMER 2018 Rowohlt Rowohlt Hundert Augen Rowohlt ⦁ Berlin Kindler Wunderlich rororo Rowohlt Polaris rotfuchs CONTACT DETAILS Rowohlt Verlag GmbH France Japan Foreign Rights Director Editio Dialog Literary Agency Ms. Meike Marx Ms. Carolin Mungard Dr. Michael Wenzel 2-6-5 Otoe-cho Hamburger Str. 17 45, rue Saint André Fukagawa D-21465 Reinbek F-59800 LILLE JP-HOKKAIDO 074-1273 Phone: 0049-40-7272-257 Phone: 0033-3-20 18 03 75 Phone: 0081-164-251466 Fax: 0049-40-7272-319 [email protected] Fax: 0081-164-263833 [email protected] [email protected] Baltic Countries, Ukraine Greece Portugal ANDREW NURNBERG BALTIC Iris Literary Agency Ilídio Matos Ms. Tatjana Zoldnere Ms. Catherine Fragou Agência Literária Lda. P. O. Box 77 Komotinis str. 18 Mr. Gonçalo Gama Pinto LV-RIGA, LV-1011 GR-136 76 THRAKOMAKEDONES Rua António Pedro 68 - 4° Dto. 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Phone: 0042-222-782 041 Phone: 0036-1-456 0311 Phone: 00886-2-2364-4995 Fax: 0042-222-782 041 Fax: 0036-1-215 4420 Fax: 00886-2-2364-1967 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Italy Turkey BERLA & GRIFFINI RIGHTS AGENCY ONK AGENCY Frau Barbara Griffini Mr. Meriç Güleç Via Stampa 4 Turunç Sokak I-20123 MAILAND Açar Villaları No: 10 Phone: 0039-02-8050 4179 34457 Tarabya / Istanbul Fax: 0039-02-8901 0646 [email protected] [email protected] Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Hamburger Straße 17, D-21465 Reinbek Katharina Adler IDA © Christoph Adler Suffering from a petite hysterie and growing up within a darkly complex family situation, Dora became one of the twentieth century’s most famous patients when she found the strength to break off treatment with Sigmund Freud. Aged barely eighteen, the young Jewish girl robbed the great analyst, as he later complained, “of the satisfaction of more thoroughly freeing her of her ailment”. For author Katharina Adler, this rebellious patient, whose real name was kept secret at the time, is more than a family anecdote. In her later fame, Adler’s great-grandmother was portrayed by some as a victim, and idealised by others as a heroine. “Slowly, my wish grew to complete this picture of her, yet also to counter it. I wanted to show a woman who couldn’t be dismissed as a life-long hysteric or exploited in a superficial way as a heroine. I wanted to show a woman with strengths and a few weaknesses who struggled to the last to live a self-determined life, despite all the adversities.” Ida – Dora’s real name – is the focus of this stirring, infectious novel, a powerful display of Adler’s creative dexterity and eye for the smallest of details. The locus of Ida’s story oscillates between Rowohlt external, political disputes and internal, psychological conflict, and August 2018 between exile and memory. Yet this bewitching narrative also offers 656 pages intriguing perspectives on the ripples and storms of half a century of human history. Ida is a forceful plea both for the veracity of human perceptions and their captivatingly diverse nature, telling the story of a woman whose life began in earnest once she had turned her back on one of the past century’s greatest figures. “The story of Freud’s ‘Dora’ has been told many times, but the stories seldom agree. After years of research in archives English sample translation available! and amongst her family, the great- granddaughter of the real Born in Munich in 1980, Katharina Adler lived in Leipzig and Berlin ‘Dora’, Ida Adler, finally gives before returning to the city of her birth, where she currently lives. She her a voice.” was awarded the state of Bavaria’s literary stipend and was Donna Leon nominated for the 2015 Döblin Prize. Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Hamburger Straße 17, D-21465 Reinbek Claudia Tieschky ENGELE © Stephanie Füssenich “I’ll tell you her story, she says. She senses a desire for a callous insensibility, for brutality. She’ll tell it as it really was.” Lotte meets her lover once every so often. One day, she suddenly begins to tell him about her grandmother, and wanders into a memory that she had kept hidden from herself for years. During Lotte’s childhood, Ruth often behaved in an eccentric and puzzling way, a dominating and effervescently lively woman who could also be cold and tough. Before the war, Ruth was a nurse in Berlin, an emancipated woman who had affairs. She then discovered the warmth of family life with Siegfried Engele, a charismatic musician, in a small town in southern Germany. Their marriage disintegrated in the 1950s, with Siegfried imprisoned for a “crime of morality”; Lotte never found out what that meant. Ruth’s life is turned upside down and, bringing up her children with a cold determination, she experiences her own economic miracle and adventures... As she relates Ruth’s story, a feeling of understanding grows within Lotte. Not only for her grandmother and her own distant mother but also for her own life and its unsteady, fleeting relationships. Detailing an open family secret, this novel is also an exploration of German morality, a depiction of three women and surprising freedoms. Inspired by her own family history, Claudia Tieschky’s Rowohlt ⦁ Berlin concisely told, gripping and poetic book reveals a Germany hitherto March 2018 unexplored. 208 pages English sample translation available! Claudia Tieschky was born in Augsburg in 1968, and studied history and German studies. In 2003 she joined the Süddeutsche Zeitung as a staff writer covering media issues. In 2016 she was awarded the Bert Donnepp Prize, the German prize for media journalism. Claudia Tieschky lives in Munich. Engele is her first novel. Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Hamburger Straße 17, D-21465 Reinbek Lucy Fricke DAUGHTERS © Dagmar Morath Two women embark on a journey to Switzerland. With a terminally ill father on the back seat. This is to be their last, final journey together. But nothing ends the way it was supposed to, not even a life. Some stories begin with someone dying, but not every death is certain. Martha and Betty have known each other since their 20s. They decide to blast full-throttle along the roads. In front of them is their destination, while a disaster looms behind. “There was no one with whom I could laugh this loudly about misfortune, only Martha. Most women don’t laugh about misfortune, especially not their own. Women talk about it until they cry and there’s nothing left worth saving. When it comes to suffering, women lose their sense of humour.” Armed with humour used as a last line of defence and a painfully telling honesty, Lucy Fricke has crafted a warm, engaging novel about the goodbyes we all have to go through, the fathers who leave us too early and the debts that no one can hide from, even on the remotest island. This journey southwards explores the deep abyss of past lives, leading us to discover that the most important question isn’t, “Where did I come Rowohlt from?” but, “How do I get out of here?” March 2018 240 pages ● A road novel that captures the reader right from the start. ● “Telling a story like this one that’s not only absurd but also beautiful, tragic and often very funny, is an artform.” Backlist: Margarete Stokowski, die tageszeitung about Takeshi’s Skin The work of Lucy Fricke, born in Hamburg in 1974, has won the author many prizes, including the stipend of the German Academy in Rome and a residency at New York’s Ledig House. Following Thirst Is Worse Than Homesickness, I Brought Friends and Takeshi’s Skin, Daughters is her fourth novel. Since 2010, Lucy Fricke has organised Hamburg’s HAM.LIT youth literature and music festival, the city’s first. She lives in Berlin. Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Hamburger Straße 17, D-21465 Reinbek André Kubiczek COME TO THE PARK AND SEE © Dagmar Morath In a near-future Germany, public order is faltering, the influence of anarchists and ‘illegals’ is spreading like an infection and rumours of a revolution are sweeping through the streets.