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KG Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 München Germany dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 München Germany 3 [email protected] www.dtv.de [email protected] www.dtv.de HIGHLIGHT SPRING 2020 HIGHLIGHT SPRING 2020 Praise for Dear Child ENGLISH SAMPLE “THE surprise bestseller.” EXPRESS, TRANSLATION Köln, April 7, 2019 AVAILABLE “She is a master of insinuation.” Georg Pepl, Hessische Allgemeine, April 2019 “Readers will be captivated by the Flagship Title plot, which will keep them completely enthralled from the first page to the last.” Manuela Haselberger, Freie Presse, March 2019 Her past makes her the perfect victim. And the perfect murderer... Romy Hausmann Marta, Asleep A murder has occurred, and it must be undone. This leaves 352 pages April 2020 © Astrid Eckert © Astrid only one possibility. The murder has to happen again, and the real culprit has to provide the police with a different course of events - as well as a plausible culprit. And he finds ROMY HAUSMANN was born in the former Romy Hausmann GDR in 1981, and became the chief editor of one in the mentally unstable young woman who works as a TV station at age 24. There she has met a an assistant at a law firm. Her past alone makes her the variety of protagonists, whose stories she told: Marta, Asleep perfect victim - or better said, the perfect murderer. Stories of domestic abuse, Somalian refugees of war and neglected children. Since the birth The young woman already has a guilty past. She was still of her son she is working as a freelancer for Rights sold – pre-publication: practically a child, when a crime took place that never several TV formats. Her thriller debut Dear Child has been sold to 17 languages so far. English language, Sweden, The Netherlands should have occurred. She did her penance, but as an adult, she seems to be working through her guilt via a kind of non-existence. Instead of actually living, she observes the • Following the phenomenal success of her debut novel Dear Child, the new psychothriller lives of others. However, she refuses to bear any more guilt from the Spiegel bestselling author Romy Hausmann than she already feels. So when she sees through the actual • Highly emotional, top-class psychological thriller murderer’s plot, she decides to turn the tables. • Rights sold for Dear Child in 17 languages A deeply disturbing book about guilt, retribution, and the question of whether a perpetrator can ever be truly free again... 4 dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 München Germany dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 München Germany 5 [email protected] www.dtv.de [email protected] www.dtv.de HIGHLIGHT SPRING 2020 HIGHLIGHT SPRING 2020 Christopher Kloeble – Backlist titles Christopher Kloeble The Immortal Family Salz The Museum of the World ENGLISH Resplendent with glamour but overcast by many a shadow, the SAMPLE Rights sold: TRANSLATIONAVAILABLE story of the Salz family centres on Leipzig’s up-market Fürstenhof hotel. Salz Sr. buys it in 1914, but his actress Persian language daughter Lola refuses to set foot in it for many years—not during the Second World War, nor later when the hotel has become GDR state property and Lola is living in Munich with her frail daughter Aveline. It is not until 1989, after her son Kurt ENGLISH Oellermann © Jens has restored the Fürstenhof to family ownership, that Lola steps SAMPLE in to preside not only over the hotel but also the fortunes of a TRANSLATION AVAILABLE CHRISTOPHER KLOEBLE family worn down by the relentless winds of change. studied at the German 440 pages Literature Institute in Leipzig, Pub. Date: 2016 528 pages was writer-in-residence at February 2020 Cambridge University (UK), at the Goethe Institute in Bangalore (India) and at the Home Made in India An extraordinary adventure and an unforgettable hero Deutsches Haus in New York (USA). He won several prizes ENGLISH Indians, Germans, and an author seeking to answer the Bartholomew is an orphan from Bombay, he’s twelve years old and speaks almost as SAMPLE question: What is home? Since his marriage to Indian native many languages. This is why, in the year 1854, he is hired as a translator by the brothers for his work and lives in Berlin TRANSLATIONAVAILABLE Saskya, Christopher Kloeble is a notarized “Person of Schlagintweit from Germany, who, with the support of Alexander von Humboldt and the and Delhi. Indian Heritage.” In this insightful, nuanced, amusing book, he East India Company, embark on the greatest expedition of their time, taking them across strives to convey what it feels like to be suspended between two India and the Himalayas. But Bartholomew is also pursuing his own agenda: He wants to cultures. Of course, cliches and preconceptions abound here as found the first museum of his astonishing, contradictory native land. For this he is willing well as there - Indians enjoy chiding Germans for their to risk everything. Even his life. impatience and dogmatism, while Germans frequently have A fantastic adventure that will change the way we see the history of colonialism. very exotic stereotypes about life in India. Orphaned teenager Bartholomew could be Kim’s older brother. (…) But The Museum of the 288 pages World, unlike Kipling’s classic, also shows the unsettling nature of those personal encounters Pub. Date: 2017 – colonial but very human nevertheless – which shaped world history. Francesca Melandri, author of the bestseller The Rightful Blood More Often than Not All Very Fast For years, Albert has been visiting Fred during the holidays and Rights sold: English • Laugh-out-loud funny and at times almost unbearably tender, The Museum of the at weekends, but they’ve never really grown close. Albert only language, Israel, Italy, World examines in depth the ambivalent nature of all colonial human relationships. COMPLETE ever called Fred Fred, never Father. Fred is a child trapped in ENGLISH the body of an old man, he spends his time reading TEXT Turkey (Francesca Melandri) AVAILABLE encyclopaedias, waves at green cars and guards his prize possession jealously. Albert is 22, grew up in a children’s home and never knew his mother. Somehow he senses that Fred is the only one who can help him find out more about his background. But Fred has only five months left to live... 380 pages Pub. Date: 2012 w 236 dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 München Germany dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 München Germany 7 [email protected] www.dtv.de [email protected] www.dtv.de HIGHLIGHT SPRING 2020 HIGHLIGHT SPRING 2020 Dora Heldt – Backlist titles Three Women at the Lake Dora Heldt Dora Heldt They had been close friends since childhood: Marie, Rights sold: Alexandra, Friederike, and Jule. Regardless of where their lives took them, they gathered every Friday before Pentecost, Italy Mathilda, or Drei at Marie’s enchanting house by the lake. Marie, the sensitive Frauen ROMAN photographer, had held the four of them together, but that was Someone Always Dies am See a long time ago. ENGLISH The message of Marie’s early death comes as a shock to all of SAMPLE Schepers © Franz TRANSLATION them. Since their quarrel ten years ago, they hardly have had AVAILABLE any contact with each other. Marie presents a last surprise to DORA HELDT was born in 1961 her friends, provided that they have to meet again.