BERLIN, VICTORY AVENUE

  • The new book by the five-time winner of the German Crime Fiction Award. Engaging, thrilling, unique.
  • A crime novel bridging the past and present: Kaiser-era Berlin meets contemporary discussions on colonial history.
  • Rights to Die Mauer were sold to France (Éditions Belfond) and the US (Catalyst Press).
  • Rights to Illegal were sold to France (Éditions Belfond) and Japan (Tokyo Sogensha).

The Empire in Summer 1914: The genocide in German South-West is a thing of the past, and peace prevails in the colonies as if living in magnificent times. Three young men meet in Steglitz near Berlin. Joseph Ayang, the son of a Cameroonian colonial official, who wants to study theology. Friedrich Smith who was born in the Empire to a black American father, and third, Ernst who was brought from South-West by his master. United by their shared discontent, they resolve to take action to avenge the crimes committed in the colonies. They kill soldiers at night, but to no effect.
Florentine vom Baum, the daughter of a factory owner, cannot bear to live in a society where women are oppressed. When she meets the three men through her brother, she offers them her assistance. The four of them come up with a monstrous plan: the assassination of the Kaiser.

A novel about what drives people to use violence. It is set in a past whose consequences still resonate in our present.

"It's refreshing to find crime novels that unravel more than just a murder." Stern

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Hundert Augen
  • Release: 30.01.2024
  • ISBN: 978-3-498-00316-6
  • 288 Pages
  • Author: Max Annas

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Max Annas was a journalist and worked for many years in South Africa on a research project studying South African jazz. He now lives in Berlin. He was awarded the German Crime Fiction Prize five times.