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. Whenever Oskar comes to visit from his prestigious research post in Geneva, there is tension in the air, and it doesn't help their friendship that he feels Sebastian has not lived up to his intellectual capacities, having chosen marriage and fatherhood as an exit strategy. A few days after a particularly heated argument between the two men, Sebastian leaves his son sleeping in the back seat while he goes into a service station. When he returns, the car has disappeared without trace. His phone rings and a voice informs him that in order to get his son back he must kill a man. As Sebastian's life unravels, the only person he can safely reach out to is Oskar. Then Detective Schilf comes on the scene, with a most unorthodox method of uncovering the truth. With intelligence, wit, precision, and grace, Juli Zeh crafts a philosophical thriller which uses the clash of the ideal and the material worlds, the bending of reality, and the search for a definition of time to explore the ideas of guilt and innocence and the infinite configurations of love.

Dark Matter

Juli Zeh

Literature & Fiction

Vintage Books USA

In Free Fall

Publisher

HARVILL/SECKER

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", set in the middle of the twenty-first century, deals with pressing questions: to what extent can the state curtail the rights of the individual? And does the individual have a right to resist? Juli Zeh has written a thrilling and visionary book about our future, and our present.

The Method

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Der große Gesellschaftsroman von Juli ZehWer nur einen flüchtigen Blick auf das Dorf in Brandenburg wirft, ist bezaubert von den altertümlichen Namen der Nachbargemeinden, von den schrulligen Originalen, die den Ort nach der Wende prägen, von der unberührten Natur mit den seltenen Vogelarten. Doch hinter den Fassaden der kleinen Häuser brechen alte Streitigkeiten wieder auf. Und obwohl niemand etwas Böses will, geschieht Schreckliches.Mit "Unterleuten" hat Juli Zeh einen großen Gesellschaftsroman über die wichtigen Fragen unserer Zeit geschrieben, der sich hochspannend wie ein Thriller liest. Gibt es im 21. Jahrhundert noch eine Moral jenseits des Eigeninteresses Woran glauben wir Und wie kommt es, dass immer alle nur das Beste wollen, und am Ende trotzdem Schreckliches passiert

Unterleuten

Literary

btb Verlag

Ein Familienurlaub auf Lanzarote, der zum Albtraum wird.\nSie schreit nicht nach Mama, sondern nach ihm. Jedes Mal, wenn sie seinen Namen ruft, schneidet es ihm ins Fleisch wie ein Messer. Er geht weiter, schaut sich nicht um, hört sie nicht mehr, sieht sie nicht, stürzt, steht auf, läuft.\n"... vielleicht Juli Zehs bislang bestes Buch" 
Karin Janker, Süddeutsche Zeitung\n"Im Grunde ist Juli Zeh genau die Schriftstellerin, nach der sich alle sehnen." 
Volker Weidermann, FAZ

Neujahr

Light marks of use on the edges of the cover and signs of usage on some pages of the book. No highlights or notes.

Corpus delicti

Leere Herzen

Zwischen Welten

Simon Urban

Angriff auf die Freiheit: Sicherheitswahn, Ãœberwachungsstaat und der Abbau bürgerlicher Rechte

Ilija Trojanow

Hanser

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