Im Gespräch mit Jackie Thomae: „Glück“

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Our "In conversation" series is dedicated to well-known authors and their latest works.

Marie-Claire, MC for short, known as the good-humored voice on the radio, hears this sentence from her gynecologist when she is almost forty: 'You've had a quarter of a century. And now it's too late, or as good as. The most important deadline in life: missed. Or not yet? Because when MC wakes up the next morning, she is truly happy for the first time, much to her own surprise. Anahita is a walking success story: a senator at not even forty, a media professional, in a few years she could be sitting in Brussels. But something is missing, even if nobody dares to say it. A politician has to be competent, and isn't motherhood still a woman's most important competence?

"Glück" is a novel about women under pressure, about the phase in life in which they are too old to wait any longer and too young to have the election behind them. Clever, humorous and honest. But what if this phase could be artificially prolonged? If women, like men, simply had more time?

Registration required exclusively at the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland: im.gespraech@rsgv.de.

A cooperative event of the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland, the Literaturbüro NRW and the Heine Haus Literaturhaus Düsseldorf.