THREE CITIES SAGA: Between Today and Tomorrow (Vol. II)

  • More than 70,000 copies sold!
  • Three families, three cities, a decade in Europe: the second volume of a new saga by bestselling author Carmen Korn!
  • 160,000 copies sold of Und die Welt war jung (Vol. I)! Rights were sold to Italy (Fazi), the Netherlands (Signatuur) and Spain (Planeta).
  • 2 million copies sold of her trilogy Töchter einer neuen Zeit! The trilogy was translated into 8 languages and entered the bestseller lists in Italy and the Netherlands. It is very successful in Spain.

A moving family history set in the swinging sixties – the long-awaited sequel to the bestseller Und die Welt war jung.

A new decade begins for the families from Cologne, Hamburg and San Remo who are old friends. The 1960s promise progress, prosperity and fun.

Gerda and Heinrich’s gallery in Cologne is doing well. Their daughter Ursula in Hamburg is expecting her first child. She really appreciates her parents’ old friends, Elisabeth and Kurt, offering her and Joachim a home. But these living arrangements are not easy. Elisabeth doesn’t allow the young couple much space, and her husband Kurt tries to escape whenever he can, while she struggles to accept that everyone is going their own way. Ursel and Joachim. Daughter Nina and her husband Vinton. Nina prefers to have her four-year-old daughter taken care of by a nanny rather than by her grandmother. While the next generation searches for its place in the here and now, Elisabeth holds onto the past.

The coexistence of the generations in San Remo is not easy, either, and brings change and partings. Gianni is especially worried about his friend Pips, the pianist in his jazz club, who is confronted by a dark chapter in his past that will change his life far into the future.

Carmen Korn makes the past come alive. She writes about people. The smallest moments in big world events. The things that make up a life well-lived.

“There is probably another reason for Korn’s success: the tone with which she tells her stories. The stance that it reveals.” Stern

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Kindler
  • Release: 13.09.2022
  • ISBN: 978-3-463-40705-0
  • 576 Pages
  • Series: Drei-Städte-Saga
  • Author: Carmen Korn

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Carmen Korn

Carmen Korn was born in 1952 in Düsseldorf. She is the daughter of the composer Heinz Korn. Following her studies at the Henri Nannen School of Journalism, she worked as an editor for various publications including Stern . She is married and has two grown-up children. The first volume of her trilogy, Töchter einer neuen Zeit , was an unexpected success. Her novels have sold more than 2 million copies so far and reached the top of the bestseller list.