โ Al K Line
๐ Fiction
๐
2018
๐ English
โ 142 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Empty Hearts
โ Scribed by John Cullen; Juli Zeh
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 173 KB
- Edition
- First American edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 0385544553
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โฆ Synopsis
A prescient political and psychological thriller ripped from tomorrow's headlines, by one of Germany's most celebrated contemporary novelists
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, 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...
โฆ Subjects
Terrorism -- Fiction
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