Volker Widmann, THE NEWTS

Heyne - Novel - Hardcover - March 2022 - 336 pages

Sad, funny and hopeful. The story of two people who could not be more different.

What do we know about our parents? Much less than we think. And sometimes nothing at all. Fifteen-year-old Kim has never seen her father when her mother sends her away to live with him over the summer vacations. Instantly, the man proves to be not only rather strange, but also the most unsuccessful salesman in the world. But when she helps him to sell his dreadful awnings in the hard-hitting door-to-door business, father and daughter's lives change forever.

A book about growing up and aging, about the secrets in our families, about guilt and responsibility, and the orange-yellow flicker of summer evenings.

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