New Year - Juli Zeh

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• Juli Zeh is one of Germany's most established, prestigious and bestselling authors. Her books have been translated into 35 languages.
• In the US, Juli Zeh's work has been published by Penguin Random House. Her latest work, Empty Hearts, was published in HC in 2019 and sold 420 copies through BookScan.
• Empty Hearts received a starred Kirkus review, and was reviewed by the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times and Vulture among many other outlets.
• She has worked at the United Nations in New York, taught at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig, and currently lives in Brandenburg, where she is an honorary constitutional judge
• New Year was a #1 Spiegel (the NYT equivalent) bestseller in Germany, dominated the bestseller lists for over 6 months, and sold 365,000 copies in hardcover alone
• >New Year is Zeh's most personal work. She was inspired to write it during one of her own bike rides during a family vacation on Lanzarote, and has experienced the feeling of being alone in the world with her younger brother herself as a child. For Zeh, New Year is the story of our society's excessive demands on parents, of parental exhaustion and burn out and children's utter dependence on those overtaxed parents.
• In 2020, may parents have asked themselves how to keep their children safe during a pandemic, and how to care for them should they themselves get sick. New Year is the story of how little sometimes separates a child's safety from utter disaster.
• With elements of a psychological thriller and social commentary, New Year is a page turner which should especially resonate with any modern parent
• Rights have sold to: o World English (World Editions), o France (Actes Sud) o Greece (Metaixmio) o Italy (Fazi) o Korea (Solbitkil), o The Netherlands (Ambo

  Biographie:
  Juli Zeh is one of Germany's most successful authors of both literary thrillers and novels. She studied law in Passau and Leipzig, and holds a doctorate in international law. She has worked at the United Nations in New York, taught at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig, and currently lives in Brandenburg, where she is an honorary constitutional judge. Her debut novel Eagles and Angels was an international bestseller and was awarded the Deutscher B?cherpreis, and since then her books have been translated into 35 languages. She has been awarded myriad prizes for her work, including the Carl Amery Literature Prize, the Thomas Mann Prize, and the Order of Merit.

  Alta L. Price runs a publishing consultancy specialized in literature and nonfiction texts on art, architecture, design, and culture. A recipient of the Gutekunst Prize, she translates from Italian and German into English. Her work has appeared on BBC Radio 4, 3 Quarks Daily, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. Her latest publications include books by Martin Mosebach, Dana Grigorcea, Anna Goldenberg, and Alexander Kluge.

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