France (Piranha)
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Renowned Dante scholars from all around the world meet in the ancient hall of Maltese at the Roman Aventine, within view of the St. Peter‘s Basilica. The center of interest is Dante’s Divine Comedy. One of the zealous debaters is Gottlieb Elsheimer, a Romance philologist from Frankfurt and, in his own opinion, a candidate for purgatory rather than for paradise. Despite his passion for the subject of research, the increasingly boisterous behavior of his colleagues seems stranger and...
Renowned Dante scholars from all around the world meet in the ancient hall of Maltese at the Roman Aventine, within view of the St. Peter‘s Basilica. The center of interest is Dante’s Divine Comedy. One of the zealous debaters is Gottlieb Elsheimer, a Romance philologist from Frankfurt and, in his own opinion, a candidate for purgatory rather than for paradise. Despite his passion for the subject of research, the increasingly boisterous behavior of his colleagues seems stranger and stranger. While the church bells ring for Pentecost, an inconceivable event is looming in the distance.
Sibylle Lewitscharoff is a literary heavyweight. Winner of the Büchner-Prize in 2013 and best-selling author, she has put forth another novel and accompanies us through heaven and hell. The most vital aspects of her new novel are the greatest Comedy in world literature, the souls of 34 Dante scholars and a touching narrator, who strives for realism so diligently that he is faced with a true internal conflict about uttering words like »miracle«.
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Pong at the Abyss
Things aren’t great with our flighty hero. Not even the clear night sky can entice him from his bed. The disappointment about the humiliation his »so-called friend« inflicted on him is too great.
Gloomy weeks skulk by until the phone rings one morning and a not entirely unlikable lady whom Pong has just met voices interest in the empty flat in his house. The background check comes...
From Above
Sibylle Lewitscharoff’s narrator is looking down onto his own grave, the bereaved friends and neighbours, onto the strange and the familiar in the city that is moaning under the oppressive heat...
Arabic world rights (Fawasel)
Abraham Meets Ibrahim
A highly dramatic scene: a father leans over the defenceless boy, the knife flashing in his hand – when, at the last moment, an angel orders him to sacrifice a ram instead of his own son. The...
Russia (Medina)
Killmousky
France (Piranha), Italy (Del Vecchio)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Random House Audio)
Pong redivivus
Pong lives! At the end of Sibylle Lewitscharoff’s novel Pong, the loveable, crazy protagonist had thrown himself with resounding hurrah to the moon, arms open wide – and contrary to the reader’s apprehensions, he has survived this bold leap from the roof. Now, as he lies in hospital, he has all...
Blumenberg
English world rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights (Adriana Hidalgo), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai Translation Publishing House), France (Les Belles Lettres), Italy (Del Vecchio Editore), Bulgaria (Atlantis), Slovenia (Sodobnost)
Apostoloff
Two sisters are travelling through present-day...
English world rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights (Hidalgo), Chinese simplex rights (Beijing Qingyan), Chinese complex rights (China Times Publishing), France (Piranha), Italy (Del Vecchio Editore), Hungary (Bookart), Bulgaria (Atlantis), Republic of Moldova / Romanian Rights (Cartier), Estonia (Atlex), Serbia (Presing Izdavastvo), Macedonia (Ars Lamina)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Book Club (Bertelsmann), German Audiobook (Der Hörverlag)