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The only thing he does know is that in order to es- cape his pursuers he must take on a false identity and play the role to the hilt. As time goes by, he realises that he has begun to fuse with his false identity to an unnatural degree; the masquerade has become a reality. A sinister, brilliant, and utterly riveting novel about the inexorable power of evil. Charles Lewinsky Andersen 400 pages. Hardcover Publication date: Even as a child there was something vaguely disconcerting about Jonas. He seldom cried March 2016 and spent countless hours obsessively practicing his fine motor skills; sometimes his parents reckoned they saw the knowing look of an old man cross his face. Little do they know how justified their misgivings are. Jonas does everything in his power to maintain Charles Lewinsky his cover. He carries on with his training relentlessly, quietly and with great discipline, was born in 1946 and lives in France and Zurich. He although he often finds it hard to conceal his true character. But his desire to cast off the previously worked as a dra- millstone of his family gives him the strength to stay the course. His scheme comes off maturge, playwright, direc- and he hoodwinks everyone around him yet again using a false name. tor, and editor. His literary oeuvre has been translated into many languages and But then the one and only time he wants to strike up a friendship, his fate is sealed: won him numerous awards. because evil cannot abide the slightest hint of goodness. Nagel & Kimche published the novels Melnitz (2006), Johannistag (2007), Gerron Fast-paced, sparkling with intelligence, and recounted with a quick wit that matches the (2011) and Kastelau (2014). Reyer Boxem © cunning of his protagonist, Charles Lewinsky tells the story of a man who gets a second Read more on: chance. And then a third. The use he makes of his chances turns blood to ice from one www.lewinsky.ch generation to the next … »It’s not often that the force of unmitigated evil strikes us head-on with such vehemence. Compelling, pitch black and densely atmospheric..« Cornelia Schweizer, Buchhandlung am Hottingerplatz, Zürich Sales to Foreign Countries: NL (Meridiaan) Selected backlist: Kastelau (2014): NL (Meridiaan); Gerron (2011): F (Grasset), I (Ein- audi), NL (Signatuur), RUS (Eksmo), CZ (Mlada fronta); Melnitz (2005): PRC (People`s Literature), HR (Fraktura), DK (Politikens), F (Grasset), IL(Schocken), I (Einaudi), NL (Signatuur), S (Bonniers), ES (Roca Editorial), TR (Gözlem), UK/USA (Grove Atlantic) 1 FICTION FICTION 2 FOREIGN RIGHTS HANSER LITERATURVERLAGE FOREIGN RIGHTS HANSER LITERATURVERLAGE FICTION JOHANNA ADORJÁN A woman meets a man and falls in love with him. It’s the oldest story in the world, but Johan- na Adorján recounts it with such immediacy and in such down-to-earth tones that it feels like the English sample first time it’s ever been told. This is a story about translation available the relationship between love and freedom; when you think you know all about love, it trips you up all over again. This is a story about love turning into something dark and sinister. Johanna Adorján Geteiltes Vergnügen Shared Pleasures 208 pages. Hardcover A woman meets a man; he is handsome and interesting, with a hint of mystery about him; Publication date: he is attentive yet somehow a little distant, as if he wants to experience the situation at a February 2016 remove even as he loses himself in it. They meet, he sweeps her off her feet, but just as she begins to let herself relax into a new sense of proximity he seems to back off. And while he becomes ever more central to her life, he appears increasingly free with his affections. Johanna Adorján born in Stockholm in 1971, Is he playing some strange game with her? Is this lack of emotional commitment his way is a journalist and writer. of exercising power over her? Or is he actually offering her a version of love that is better, Her bestselling biographi- freer? Shared Pleasures is a novel about yearning and emancipation. cal memoir An Exclusive Love has been translated into sixteen languages. Her collection of short stories, »And then he was gone. He disappeared so radically that it seemed My 500 Best Friends was published in 2013. She is he’d been nothing but a figment of my imagination.« a regular contributor to the Joachim Gern Frankfurter Allgemeine © Zeitung’s arts section. You can follow her on twitter under @ADORJ. »Johanna Adorján’s analysis is so beautifully written that you can’t help but fall in love all over again — with Jessica’s Tom, your own Tom and the intelligent author, who is so perfectly in tune with the reader’s emotions.« Harper`s Bazaar Sales to Foreign Countries: »Fully aware of its subtle deconstructivism, Johanna Adorján hit on a lyrical metaphor for her Selected backlist: Eine exlusive Liebe (2009): AUS (Text), BR (Geracao), CZ (Mladá novel: it is reminiscent of one of Bach's organ fugues in which the right hand plays a melody, fronta), DK (Gyldendal), FIN (Otava), F (Presse de la Cité), HU (Park), IL (Ha’kursa), I (Cairo), KOR (Thinking Tree), LT (Gimtasis Zodis), NL (Mistral), NO (Cappelen Damm), then the left hand joins in. But regardless of the higher scales, sooner or later the bass notes ES/Cast. (Seix Barral), ES/Catal. (PROA), UK (Harvill), USA (W.W. Norton) generated by the treadles start playing a deeper and far more powerful melody of their own.« Hilmar Klute, Süddeutsche Zeitung 3 FICTION FICTION 4 FOREIGN RIGHTS HANSER LITERATURVERLAGE FOREIGN RIGHTS HANSER LITERATURVERLAGE FICTION TILMAN RAMMSTEDT Tilman Rammstedt is currently in the process of writing a new novel … Tilman Rammstedt Morgen Mehr To be Continued Tomorrow 160 pages. Hardcover It is the summer of 1975. It’s always been the summer of 1975. But the colours are fading, Publication date: the music drones on and the man yearns for some kind of future. He’s missing all sorts May 2016 of things that don’t exist yet: sat-navs, gluten intolerance and nostalgia for clearer, less muddied times.