AND THE WORLD WAS YOUNG (Vol. I)

  • Three families, three cities, a decade in Europe: the first of a new two-volume saga by bestselling author Carmen Korn!
  • Carmen Korn allows us to immerse ourselves in the "pioneer" post-war years in Cologne, Hamburg and San Remo.
  • 160,000 copies sold of And the World was Young (Vol. 1)!
  • 2 million copies sold of her previous saga!
  • The trilogy Daughters of a New Time entered the bestseller lists in Italy and the Netherlands, and is very suscessful in Spain.

 

January 1st, 1950: in Cologne, Hamburg and San Remo, people ring in the new decade. The one before left deep scars in the cities and in people’s minds and hearts. Gerda and Heinrich Aldenhoven’s house in Cologne is bursting at the seams. Heinrich’s art gallery is not making enough money to feed all the hungry mouths. In contrast, Gerda’s friends Elisabeth and her husband Kurt in Hamburg don’t have money worries. As press officer of the savings bank, Kurt can provide a modest existence for his family. But they also yearn for a little more lightness in their lives. Their son-in-law Joachim still hasn’t returned from the war. 

And Margarethe Aldenhoven has ended up in San Remo. Her life at her Italian husband’s side seems carefree, but she is tortured by her dependency on her mother-in-law. As differently as they all spent New Year’s Eve – out and about in Cologne, quietly at home in Hamburg, classily in San Remo – the questions on New Year’s Day are the same: will the wounds finally heal? What will the future bring?

 

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Kindler
  • Release: 22.09.2020
  • ISBN: 978-3-463-40704-3
  • 640 Pages
  • Series: Drei-Städte-Saga
  • Author: Carmen Korn

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AND THE WORLD WAS YOUNG (Vol. I)
Carmen Korn AND THE WORLD WAS YOUNG (Vol. I)
Charlotte Schreiber
© Charlotte Schreiber
Carmen Korn

Carmen Korn was born in 1952 in Düsseldorf. She is the daughter of the composer Heinz Korn. Following her studies at the Henri Nannen School of Journalism, she worked as an editor for various publications including Stern . She is married and has two grown-up children. The first volume of her trilogy, Töchter einer neuen Zeit , was an unexpected success. Her novels have sold more than 2 million copies so far and reached the top of the bestseller list.