POPPY: My Little Wife
The Bestseller no. 1 in Germany: Poppy is a six-year-old girl who lives with her mother in a run-down suburban neighborhood. One day, they move into a luxurious mansion with her mother’s new partner. Poppy’s mother is happy. She can finally buy anything she wants. This new ‘Daddy’ or “Mr. Rich”, as the young girl calls him, makes Poppy’s every wish come true. He showers her with gifts, washes her hair three times a week and takes her on long journeys in his big car, just the two of them. He calls her his little wife.In fact, everything would be just great, if it wasn’t for one thing … Critical Reviews: *Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung” (German newspaper): “One of the most powerful and daring novels of the year, based on a true story. This tale of mind games, abuse, and resilience is heart-warming as well as unbearable, powerful, and extremely alarming, and all at the same time is inspired by its lovable heroine.” *Stadtspiegel (German Newspaper): “In Poppy, Astrid Korten gives abuse a voice and successfully uses her light yet cutting tone to allow readers to imagine the unimaginable. She illuminates a dark topic and knows how to use humour to tell a harrowing story.”
THE SUPERFLARE
How far would you go to survive in a post-apocalyptic world? When a gigantic solar storm hits the earth in 2051, a worldwide EMP destroys almost all digital devices and power supplies. The artificial super-intelligence Tron disempowers the people. Life in the clean cities collapses. They sink into barbarism and chaos. In the turmoil of this apocalypse, Julia (17), a girl from the clean city “CC 12” turned living hell, meets Winston, an 18-year-old settler, whose village lies in the wilderness and whose people strictly reject any use of digital technology. The catastrophe made the once separate worlds collide. In the adventures and battles Julia and Winston endure together, they’re forced to confront the principles of their worlds and to fight tooth and nails to stay alive. But Winston and Julia discover also their love for each other and their destiny in the fight of the free people against Tron and his machines. For Julia possesses a special and powerful gift…