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Juli Zeh

  • Manfred Gortz
30 giugno 1974
Juli Zeh
New Year
Dark matter
About People
L' anno nuovo
Aquile e angeli
Turbine
  • Sembra proprio che Gerard e Jule abbiano trovato un angolo di paradiso. È il villaggio di Unterleuten, poco lontano da Berlino. Romantici cottage, aperta campagna, aria pulita: un luogo dove la vita è autentica. Fin dal principio, però, si percepisce un’atmosfera cupa, qualcosa che minaccia la quiete, qualcosa che ribolle sotto la superficie e sta per esplodere... Quando una ditta decide d’impiantare un gruppo di turbine eoliche nelle immediate vicinanze del paesino, si delinea un conflitto che va ben oltre le vite private degli abitanti: si tratta di uno scontro tra generazioni, tra città e campagna, tra artificio e natura, tra perdenti e vincitori post-muro. Una vera e propria guerra di tutti contro tutti, in cui dietro alle ideologie si nascondono gli istinti più bassi mentre le dinamiche spietate della provincia non fanno che esasperare il bisogno quasi carnale di appropriarsi di un pezzo di terra. Un crescendo di tensione che sfocia nella nevrosi collettiva e in cui la certezza è una sola: non si salva nessuno. Turbine, specchio perfetto della società contemporanea, racconta tutta la rabbia e la frustrazione di un mondo che fatica ad affrontare il cambiamento. Un romanzo brillante, intelligente come la migliore satira politica, avvincente come un giallo e umano come una confessione, che in Germania è stato un clamoroso caso letterario.

    Turbine
  • Max lavora a Vienna, nell’Olimpo del diritto internazionale. Mentre parla al telefono con Jessie, lei si spara alla testa. Disperato, Max abbandona il lavoro, si trasferisce a Lipsia e conta i giorni che gli rimangono sniffando cocaina. Grazie a Clara, una giornalista radiofonica senza scrupoli, il giurista fallito intraprende un viaggio nel passato. Da questo punto in poi il romanzo prosegue per frammenti e schegge di memoria. Poco alla volta, si comprende che la “ballata” di Max e Jessie fa parte del cinico e crudele scenario della guerra civile, è il tassello di una tragedia molto più grande dell’amore: infatti Jessie era coinvolta nel mercato internazionale della droga, con cui veniva finanziato il conflitto nei Balcani.

    Aquile e angeli
  • Written by Germany's #1 bestselling author Juli Zeh, About People takes place in the middle of lockdown in spring 2020 and subtly describes the social and very private consequences of the pandemic. Fleeing stay-at-home orders in the big city, Dora and her dog move to the countryside to sit out the pandemic. She knows that Bracken, a village in the middle of nowhere, isn't the idyll most city dwellers dream of, but she's desperate for space and a change of scene. The quaint old house she's saved up for needs work, weeds have taken over the yard, and her skinhead neighbor fits all the stereotypes. Just what is Dora really looking for? Distance from her boyfriend Robert, whose climate activism has crossed into obsession? Refuge from her inner turmoil? Clarity on how the whole world got so messed up? As Dora tries to keep her demons in check, unexpected things start happening all around her. Juli Zeh's epic new novel explores our present predicaments, biases, weaknesses, and fears, but-above all--it reveals the strengths that come to light when we dare to be human.

    About People
  • Dark matter

    • 336pagine
    • 12 ore di lettura

    Sebastian and Oskar have been friends since their days studying physics at university, when both were considered future Nobel Prize candidates. But their lives took divergent paths, as did their scientific views.

    Dark matter
  • New Year

    • 288pagine
    • 11 ore di lettura

    "Lanzarote on New Year's Day: Henning is cycling up the steep path to Femés. As he struggles against the wind and the gradient he takes stock of his life. He has a job, a wife, two children--yet hardly recognizes himself anymore. Panic attacks have been pouncing on him like demons. When he finally reaches the pass in utter exhaustion, a mysterious coincidence unveils a repressed yet vivid memory, plunging him back into childhood and the traumatic event that almost cost him and his sister their lives. In this masterful novel, bestselling author Juli Zeh skillfully turns a New Year's Day bike ride into an unexpectedly dark, psychological family drama."--Amazon.com

    New Year
  • Decompression

    • 252pagine
    • 9 ore di lettura

    Jola is a beautiful and privileged soap star who wants very much to be taken seriously; her partner Theo is a middle-aged author with writersâe(tm) block. In an attempt to further her career, Jola is determined to land the lead role in a new film about underwater photographer and model Lotte Hass. To improve her chances, the couple travel to Lanzarote and hire diving instructor Sven, paying him a large sum for exclusive tuition. Sven is meticulously planning his most ambitious expedition yet âe" to an untouched wreck 100 metres down on the ocean floor. Diving calls for a cool head and, as a sinister love triangle develops, events rapidly get out of hand. But whose story do we trust - Sven's or Jola's? Deliciously claustrophobic, smart, and unrelentingly intense, this psychological thriller with shades of Patricia Highsmith will leave readers gasping for air.

    Decompression
  • Empty Hearts

    • 288pagine
    • 11 ore di lettura

    A prescient political and psychological thriller ripped from tomorrow's headlines, by one of Germany's most celebrated contemporary novelists. Part suspenseful thriller, part wickedly effective social satire, "Empty Hearts" is a novel for our times, examining urgent questions of morality, politics, and culture, and presenting a startling vision of a future where empathy is a thing of the past. A few short years from now, the world is an even more uncertain place than it is today, and politics everywhere is marching rightward: Trump is gone, but Brexit is complete, as is Frexit. There's a global financial crisis, armed conflict, and mass migration, and an ultrapopulist movement governs in Germany. With their democracy facing the wrecking ball, most well-off Germans turn inward, focusing on their own lives. Britta, a wife, mother, and successful businesswoman, ignores the daily news and concentrates on her family and her work running a clinic specializing in suicide prevention. But her legitimate business is connected to a secret and far more lucrative operation known as The Bridge, an outfit that supplies terrorist organizations looking to employ suicide bombers. Using a complex candidate-identifying algorithm designed by Babak, a brilliant programmer and Britta's only employee, The Bridge has effectively cornered the market, and terrorism never takes place without Britta's services--which is why news of a thwarted suicide attack in Leipzig comes as a shock. Then The Bridge's database is stolen, driving Britta, Babak, and their latest recruit into hiding. On their heels is a new terrorist organization called the Empty Hearts, a group unlike any Britta and Babak have encountered before

    Empty Hearts
  • The method

    • 240pagine
    • 9 ore di lettura

    Mia Holl lives in a state governed by The Method, where good health is the highest duty of the citizen. Everyone must submit medical data and sleep records to the authorities on a monthly basis, and regular exercise is mandatory. Mia is young and beautiful, a successful scientist who is outwardly obedient but with an intellect that marks her as subversive. Convinced that her brother has been wrongfully convicted of a terrible crime, Mia comes up against the full force of a regime determined to control every aspect of its citizens' lives.

    The method
  • Das Problem sitzt im Sattel Pony Socke wurde misshandelt und hat jedes Vertrauen in den Menschen verloren. Für Sophie geht ein Traum in Erfüllung, als sie Socke in Pflege nehmen darf. Aber der Traum zerplatzt: Sophie muss erkennen, dass Socke und sie sich einfach nicht verstehen. Die andauernden Missverständnisse zwischen Pony und Mädchen führen zu gefährlichen Situationen. Und dann droht da noch die ultimative Katastrophe: Wenn Socke sich nicht bald reiten lässt, läuft er Gefahr, als vermeintliches Problempferd eingeschläfert zu werden … Sophie muss Pferdesprache lernen, und zwar schnell.

    Socke und Sophie - Pferdesprache leicht gemacht