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In her searing debut novel, Charlotte Gneuss tells us stories from a country that no longer exists and asks whether innocence in a totalitarian state is possible. Her literary thriller is set in the former East Germany, in the Dresden suburb of Gittersee – a gripping debut from a new talent on the German literary scene.

A road novel about the reverberations of the past and about what it means to find one's own language:During an unbearably hot summer, Adkou finds herself needing to escape Paris. From the West African coast all the way to the United States, Adikou searches for her place in history, crafting a legacy made of snakeskins, skylines, and sticky nights.