Asa

Asa is the long-awaited new thriller by bestselling author Zoran Drvenkar. A brutal family epic spanning more than a hundred years with stops in Norway, Venice, Cape Verde, and rural Germany, Asa revolves around the Kolbert family. Scarred by experiences of war and senseless violence, the Kolberts found the village of Thule, where survival is a ruthless game of cat and mouse and violence is a way of life.

In Thule, a desire to prepare the next generation for the demands of a cruel and fickle world degenerates into a ritual that becomes known as the “test”. Children are pitted against each other in a massive hunt, and only the strongest survive. When Asa and her father try to put a stop to this madness, they run afoul of their own family, who tries to have them killed. Only Asa survives. 

Years later, after having been exiled from Thule and losing so much to this ritual, Asa returns to gain her revenge. To do so, she has to face off against her greatest enemy: her own family.

What ensues is a big, sprawling thriller about revenge, survival, trauma, betrayal, and love, told with great suspense, unexpected twists, and a pinch of dark humour.

»Sorry thrills, and it thrills immaculately. It’s that oft-cited but very rare species of novel we call a page-turner, and it brilliantly achieves this because Drvenkar knows how to use all the tools at his disposal, to excellent effect.« Olen Steinhauer, The New York Times on Sorry

»You is at once a road novel, a thriller that actually thrills, and a stylish experiment in point of view. … If any [of his other novels] are as good as You, we need to see them. Sooner would be better than later.« Bill Sheehan, Washington Post on You

»Relentlessness, striking imagery, and unusual narrative perspectives.« Express

»Terrifyingly good!« TV Movie

»Capable of keeping even hardened Stephen King fans awake at night.« Bücher

»Zoran Drvenkar’s storytelling is so laconic and convincing that we believe everything he says.« BIC-Media

»Drvenkar’s writing is brilliant and extraordinary.« Ulrich Noller