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Knochenbrecher: Eine Story
Ein US-Journalist hat Angst um seine Zukunft. Sein Kollege ist aufgrund einer Online-Spendenaktion für ein verletztes nigerianisches Mädchen, das mit einem Boko-Haram-Mitglied zwangsverheiratet war, wegen «Unterstützung einer terroristischen Vereinigung» zu einem Jahr Zuchthaus verurteilt worden. Er selbst befürchtet ähnliche Repressalien, deshalb will er mit seiner Freundin aus den USA nach England fliehen. Da Unzuverlässige mit Flugverbot belegt werden, müssen sie sich etwas einfallen lassen. Doch das ist gar nicht so einfach …
Eine erschreckende Zukunftsvision über die USA als «wohlmeinende» Diktatur unter einem Präsidenten Trump, von einer der scharfzüngigsten zeitgenössischen US-Autorinnen.
Eine erschreckende Zukunftsvision über die USA als «wohlmeinende» Diktatur unter einem Präsidenten Trump, von einer der scharfzüngigsten zeitgenössischen US-Autorinnen.
27 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 1, 2017
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About the author
Nell Zink
15 books411 followersNell Zink was raised in rural Virginia, a setting she draws on in her second novel, Mislaid. She attended Stuart Hall School and the College of William and Mary. In 1993, while living in West Philadelphia, Zink founded a zine called Animal Review, which ran until 1997.
Zink has worked as a secretary at Colgate-Palmolive and as a technical writer in Tel Aviv. She moved to Germany in May 2000, completing a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Tübingen. Zink has been married twice, to US citizen Benjamin Alexander Burck and to Israeli composer and poet Zohar Eitan.
After 15 years writing fiction exclusively for a single pen pal, the Israeli postmodernist Avner Shats, Zink caught the attention of Jonathan Franzen. The two writers began a correspondence.
In early 2012, Zink sent Franzen her collected manuscripts. Franzen tried unsuccessfully to interest publishers in her 1998 novel. It was Franzen’s agent who ultimately negotiated a six-figure publishing deal for Zink’s Mislaid, a novel she has described as “agent bait”.
ZInk's debut, The Wallcreeper, was published by Dorothy, a publishing project in the US in 2014 and named one of 100 Notable Books of 2014 by The New York Times. Zink lives in Bad Belzig, Germany.
Zink has worked as a secretary at Colgate-Palmolive and as a technical writer in Tel Aviv. She moved to Germany in May 2000, completing a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Tübingen. Zink has been married twice, to US citizen Benjamin Alexander Burck and to Israeli composer and poet Zohar Eitan.
After 15 years writing fiction exclusively for a single pen pal, the Israeli postmodernist Avner Shats, Zink caught the attention of Jonathan Franzen. The two writers began a correspondence.
In early 2012, Zink sent Franzen her collected manuscripts. Franzen tried unsuccessfully to interest publishers in her 1998 novel. It was Franzen’s agent who ultimately negotiated a six-figure publishing deal for Zink’s Mislaid, a novel she has described as “agent bait”.
ZInk's debut, The Wallcreeper, was published by Dorothy, a publishing project in the US in 2014 and named one of 100 Notable Books of 2014 by The New York Times. Zink lives in Bad Belzig, Germany.
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