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11:00 AM
Reading and discussion with Melanie Raabe
Reading and discussion|The author reads from her novel "The Shadow" (Der Schatten)
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DE STIIL, Montreal
- Language English.
- Price Free of charge.
The reading and discussion will be moderated by Flora Roussel, Ph. D. Candidate in Comparative Literature (she/her), Department of World Literatures and Languages, Center of Asian Studies, Canadian Center for German and European Studies, Université de Montréal.
Melanie Raabe was born in Jena in 1981. After graduating, she worked as a journalist by day - and secretly wrote books by night. In 2015 The Trap was published, in 2016 Die Wahrheit, then in 2018 The Shadow and in 2019 The Woods. In 2020, her first nonfiction book, Creativity, was published, and in 2021 she published her contribution to the KiWi Music Library about Lady Gaga. Her fiction podcast Der Abgrund appeared in 2019, and in 2022 she submitted her novel The Art of Disappearing. In 2023, another fiction podcast, The Quest, and the film adaptation of The Shadow (ZDF neo) appeared.
Melanie Raabe publishes a monthly newsletter. She lives and writes in Cologne.
About the Book
"On February 11, you will kill a man named Arthur Grimm at the Prater. Of your own free will. And with good reason." Norah, a young journalist, has just moved from Berlin to Vienna, leaving her old life behind for good, when an old beggar woman on the street literally spits these words at her. Norah is disturbed, because on the night of February 11, of all nights, terrible things happened many years ago. Nevertheless, she dismisses the woman as confused, a lunatic she is, it can't be otherwise - until a mysterious man named Arthur Grimm appears in her life shortly thereafter. Soon Norah has a terrible suspicion: does she really have every reason to take revenge on Grimm? What really happened back then, on the worst night of her life? And can Norah get justice without becoming a murderer herself?