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Empty hearts : a novel
- Title
- Empty hearts : a novel / Juli Zeh ; translated from the German by John Cullen.
- Author
- Zeh, Juli, 1974-
- Publication
- New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2019]
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-5447 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Cullen, John, 1942-
- Description
- 270 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- A prescient political and psychological thriller ripped from tomorrow's headlines, by one of Germany's most celebrated contemporary novelists. Part suspenseful thriller, part wickedly effective social satire, "Empty Hearts" is a novel for our times, examining urgent questions of morality, politics, and culture, and presenting a startling vision of a future where empathy is a thing of the past. A few short years from now, the world is an even more uncertain place than it is today, and politics everywhere is marching rightward: Trump is gone, but Brexit is complete, as is Frexit. There's a global financial crisis, armed conflict, and mass migration, and an ultrapopulist movement governs in Germany. With their democracy facing the wrecking ball, most well-off Germans turn inward, focusing on their own lives. Britta, a wife, mother, and successful businesswoman, ignores the daily news and concentrates on her family and her work running a clinic specializing in suicide prevention. But her legitimate business is connected to a secret and far more lucrative operation known as The Bridge, an outfit that supplies terrorist organizations looking to employ suicide bombers. Using a complex candidate-identifying algorithm designed by Babak, a brilliant programmer and Britta's only employee, The Bridge has effectively cornered the market, and terrorism never takes place without Britta's services--which is why news of a thwarted suicide attack in Leipzig comes as a shock. Then The Bridge's database is stolen, driving Britta, Babak, and their latest recruit into hiding. On their heels is a new terrorist organization called the Empty Hearts, a group unlike any Britta and Babak have encountered before.
- Uniform Title
- Leere Herzen. English
- Alternative Title
- Leere Herzen.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Novels.
- Note
- "Originally published in Germany as Leere Herzen by Luchterhand Literaturverlag, a division of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH, Munich, in 2017"--Title page verso.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-5447
- ISBN
- 9780385544542
- 0385544545
- 9780385544559 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019002645
- 40029291334
- OCLC
- 1076497792
- Author
- Zeh, Juli, 1974- author.
- Title
- Empty hearts : a novel / Juli Zeh ; translated from the German by John Cullen.
- Publisher
- New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Cullen, John, 1942- translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Zeh, Juli, 1974- Empty hearts. First American edition. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2019] 9780385544559 (DLC) 2019013474
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029291334
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-5447