Melanie Raabe „Der längste Schlaf“ – Lesung und Gespräch

In the organizer's words:

Almost everything in the life of young scientist Mara Lux revolves around sleep. The Londoner-by-choice is a leading researcher in this field, but at the same time she herself has been suffering from tormenting insomnia for many years. She fears her dreams, which sometimes seem to inexplicably spill over into reality. Mara, who is not only rational through and through, but also likes to have everything under control, finds this very difficult. She is hardly ever in Germany and her parents died young, so Mara is not a little surprised when she receives a message from a notary in Frankfurt one day: Someone wants to bequeath her a large, old manor house in the German provinces, anonymously. Mara believes it is a case of mistaken identity - and yet, having become curious, she travels to the small town, which is foreign to her, to take a look. She is astonished to discover that she is strangely connected to this place through her dreams.

Melanie Raabe (*1981 in Jena) worked as a journalist during the day after her studies - and secretly wrote books at night. Her novels have been translated into 22 languages and several film adaptations are in the works.

Moderator: Emily Grunert, Literaturbüro NRW e.V.

Registration required: stadtbuechereien@duesseldorf.de

An event organized by the Freundeskreis der Stadtbüchereien Düsseldorf in cooperation with the Literaturbüro NRW e.V