Sarah Pines liest: Der Drahtzieher

In the organizer's words:

Theodor Hugo Hasselt is a wire rope manufacturer. Tall, straight, clean-shaven and smelling of cologne, he sits on the sofa folded up like a paper hat, forever looking for a quiet place to spread his toes. Theodor is the head of the second richest family in western Sauerland, an entrepreneur and respected citizen. During a stay in Transvaal, he falls irrevocably in love with his step-cousin Alba - clever, educated, artistic, sometimes perky, sometimes wilting like old vegetables, with a significant shock of hair. At home on the estate in Iserlohn, however, Alba does not fit into the role of demure wife as intended. Alba is everything Theodor had imagined, but always at the wrong moment and not for him. Where he is duty, she is lethargy; where he is tradition, she is modernity; where he upholds morality, she wants to provoke. And then Alba meets Albert, Theodor's best friend from childhood and eternal rival, son of the richest family in Sauerland, and a veritable amour fou begins.

About the author

Sarah Pines grew up in the Sauerland and in Bonn, studied literature in Cologne and at Stanford University and received her doctorate in Düsseldorf with a thesis on Baudelaire. She writes for the culture sections of 'Die Zeit', 'Die Welt' and 'NZZ'. Pines lives as a freelance author in New York. 'Der Drahtzieher' is her debut novel.

Publisher: Diogenes

Hardcover linen
320 pages
Published on August 21, 2024

978-3-257-07278-5