Andreas Izquierdo, born in 1968, is an author and screenwriter. Among others, he has published the novels König von Albanien (2007), for which he was awarded the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and Apocalypsia (2010), for which he received the Lovelybooks Readers’ Prize for Best Book of the Year. His most recent publications include Romeo & Romy (2016) and Fräulein Hedy träumt vom Fliegen (2018).
Andreas Izquierdo, born in 1968, is an author and screenwriter. Among others, he has published the novels König von Albanien (2007), for which he was awarded the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and Apocalypsia (2010), for which he received the Lovelybooks Readers’ Prize for Best Book of the Year. His most recent publications include Romeo & Romy (2016) and Fräulein Hedy träumt vom Fliegen (2018).
»Lady in her prime seeks cavalier to drive her to the nudist beach. Payment guaranteed.« – An ad in the local newspaper sets the ball rolling: Hedy von Pyritz, 88 years old, disciplined, sharp-tongued, vain. Keen mind, dry humour, at times offensive. An old lady, who usually sits in a wheelchair, causes a substantial scandal in the small town in the region of Münster, where she resides in...
No job, no boyfriend, no prospects – it’s not with a rosy outlook on life that Romy arrives in her native village in the proverbial middle of nowhere.
Being a failed actress, and...
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