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EMPTY HEARTS - JULI ZEH GEBUNDEN

A prescient political and psychological thriller ripped from tomorrow's headlines  by one of
Germany's most celebrated contemporary novelists 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. 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.

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