AMBER

  • Full of poetry, sophistication and warmth.
  • The new edition of an impressive German-Polish family chronicle.
  • A novel about a family’s psychological wounds, which are inextricably linked with the painful history of their city.
  • Sabrina Janesch' novel Die goldene Stadt spent several weeks on the Spiegel bestseller list and sold over 50,000 copies. Rights were sold to Italy (Neri Pozza) and Spain (Almuzara).

“In this city everyone has a secret, and a silence they cover it up with.”

The autumn wind is howling through the narrow streets as Kinga Mischa arrives in the faraway city by the sea. Following her father’s death, she has come to meet her Polish relatives here in Gdansk. In her luggage is a piece of amber with a spider inside. She already suspects that the bearer of this stone inherits not only the jewellery itself but also the gift of second sight: a dark and fascinating gift which increasingly becomes a torment to Kinga. For when two people close to her disappear, she herself is suspected of having used her powers for evil …

“Gdansk has a German literary voice once more.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Taschenbuch
  • Release: 31.01.2023
  • ISBN: 978-3-499-01220-4
  • 352 Pages
  • Author: Sabrina Janesch

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Sabrina Janesch

Born in 1985, Sabrina Janesch studied cultural journalism at the University of Hildesheim and polonistics at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Her novel Katzenberge was published in 2010, with Ambra (2012), Tango für einen Hund (2014),  Die goldene Stadt (2017) and Sibir (2023) following. Sabrina Janesch has been awarded many prizes for her literary work, including the Mara Cassens Prize, the Nicolas Born Prize and the Anna Seghers Prize. She was a resident writer at New York’s Ledig House and held the post of official writer of the city of Gdansk. Sabrina Janesch lives with her family in Münster.