Juli Zeh is one of Germany's most established prestigious and bestselling authors. Her books
have been translated into 35 languages. In the US Juli Zeh's work has been published by
Penguin Random House. Her latest work Empty Hearts was published in HC in 2019 and sold 420
copies through BookScan. Empty Hearts received a starred Kirkus review and was reviewed by the
New York Times Book Review Los Angeles Times and Vulture among many other outlets. She has
worked at the United Nations in New York taught at the German Institute for Literature in
Leipzig and currently lives in Brandenburg where she is an honorary constitutional judge New
Year was a #1 Spiegel (the NYT equivalent) bestseller in Germany dominated the bestseller
lists for over 6 months and sold 365 000 copies in hardcover alone >New Year is Zeh's most
personal work. She was inspired to write it during one of her own bike rides during a family
vacation on Lanzarote and has experienced the feeling of being alone in the world with her
younger brother herself as a child. For Zeh New Year is the story of our society's excessive
demands on parents of parental exhaustion and burn out and children's utter dependence on
those overtaxed parents. In 2020 may parents have asked themselves how to keep their children
safe during a pandemic and how to care for them should they themselves get sick. New Year is
the story of how little sometimes separates a child's safety from utter disaster. With elements
of a psychological thriller and social commentary New Year is a page turner which should
especially resonate with any modern parent Rights have sold to: o World English (World
Editions) o France (Actes Sud) o Greece (Metaixmio) o Italy (Fazi) o Korea (Solbitkil) o The
Netherlands (Ambo Anthos) o Persian (Ibrahim) o Spain (Vegueta)
