Pretty best friends with a difference: an event with Mia Raben and her novel "Unter Dojczen"
About the book
About the special friendship between a Hanseatic matriarch and her Polish caregiver. Burnt out and yet full of hope, Jola sits in a minibus that comes from Poland and delivers care workers to Germany like parcels. Jola has only heard good things about Ursula "Uschi" von Klewen, the matriarch of a family of doctors in Hamburg, from her placement agency. Experience teaches her to adapt in order to please her German boss. But when the spirited Uschi treats her with respect and appreciation, Jola slowly regains her strength. The two women have a few adventures together in their everyday lives. And finally, Jola even confides her biggest secret to Uschi. Read more here!
About Mia
Mia Raben, born in 1977, worked as a freelance correspondent in Warsaw, studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig and now lives as a journalist and author with her family in Hamburg. She has a Polish mother and a German father. "Unter Dojczen" is her first novel.