SIMONELLI

  • Family epic, thriller, and noir novel – all in one.
  • A book about a man – a master of deception – fighting for his dignity. A man who has the smallest of chances to get things right for once, as a father and a human being. Denis Pfabe tells us all in an exciting language.  

The adventurous story of a man who begins a dangerous game to win back his daughter and finds more than he bargained for. 

Prop master Jonathan Simonelli is building the anchor of the “Titanic” for a film shoot in England – and he is also pursuing a clandestine business on the side. He has come into possession of an old Japanese pistol with a rather explicit photograph of a woman on its handle – a “sweetheart grip”. Soldiers used to decorate their weapons with images of their girlfriends. Simonelli has two very good offers for this item and could really use the money. Business isn’t going well, and there’s more: Simonelli has a daughter he hardly knows and is looking for a way to win back her respect. One of the parties interested in the pistol is the old boss of a Yakuza clan who is convinced the photo shows his mother; his competitor believes the gun was owned by the evil Second World War General Yamashita. Simonelli realises what he’s let himself in for – but has no idea how to get out of this particular pickle.   

 

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Berlin
  • Release: 17.08.2021
  • ISBN: 978-3-7371-0104-2
  • 288 Pages
  • Author: Denis Pfabe

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SIMONELLI
Denis Pfabe SIMONELLI
Allan Larsen
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Denis Pfabe

Denis Pfabe , born in 1986 in Bonn, is a trained retail merchant and studied media communication and journalism in Cologne. He is a graduate of the Bavarian Academy of Writing, was a fellow at the Prose Writers' Workshop at the Literary Colloquium Berlin, and received a work grant from the Kunststiftung NRW. Pfabe lives in Bonn and works three days a week driving a forklift at a hardware store. His highly praised debut novel Der Tag endet mit dem Licht was published in 2018, followed by Simonelli in 2021. In 2024, he received the Deutschlandfunk Prize at the 48th Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt.