The End of Loneliness – the haunting story of love, loss, longing and fate
Sceptre Books and the Goethe-Institut London are thrilled to invite you to the UK launch of the international bestselling novel The End of Loneliness by award-winning German author Benedict Wells, translated by Charlotte Collins.
This will be the first time that Benedict Wells’ international bestselling novel will be available in the English language. Benedict will be in conversation with his translator Charlotte, talking about love, loss, longing and fate.
The End of Loneliness has sold over 200,000 copies so far in Wells’ native Germany, and the novel has been on the Spiegel Bestseller list for 80 weeks – 30 of which were in the top 10. To date The End of Loneliness has been published in 10 languages, and has sold in 27 territories. It was a winner of the European Union Prize for Literature, and the Ravensburger Verlag Foundation Prize. It was also voted #3 Book of the Year by German booksellers.
Synopsis
When Liz, Marty and Jules’ parents are killed in a car crash, they’re sent to a state funded boarding school, a far cry from their loving family home in Munich. With this change in scenery, there comes a change in personality: Liz rebels against the strict rules, Marty becomes obsessed with work, and Jules turns from a vivacious child to a shy young man. But it’s at the new school that Jules meets the mysterious Alva – beautiful, intelligent and damaged. As the siblings age, their lives diverge further from the course originally set out for them. Following them episodically, The End of Loneliness asks whether you can rise above a stroke of fate, and how something lost in life can later be rediscovered.
Tickets to the event include a glass of wine on arrival.
Tickets
You might also be interested in: Film: Beck's Last Summer by Friedrich Witter, based on Benedict's debut novel (2008). The film will be screened at the institute on Thursday 8th of March. For more information please click here.
was born in Munich in 1984, and moved to Berlin in 2003. He decided against university to concentrate on his writing, earning a living with various jobs. His widely praised debut Beck’s Last Summer was published in 2008 and adapted into a film in 2015. His third novel Almost Ingenious was published in 2011 and remained on the Spiegel Bestseller List for 12 weeks. This is his fourth novel.
is the Helen & Kurt Wolff prize-winning translator of Robert Seethaler’s A Whole Life (shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize and the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award) and The Tobacconist.
