HARD BEACH PARTY

  • A timeless and profoundly contemporary novel about what connects us all.
  • Inga Machel’s debut, Auf den Gleisen, was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2024.

Three people, three continents, three lives on the margins: of childhood, of society, of existence.

A girl somewhere in Germany, an outlaw in Aotearoa (New Zealand), a woman on death row in the US - three lives at the margins: of childhood, of society, of existence. The girl, convinced she is no longer a child, spends a summer full of contradictions in the village where she must live. Her only friend: a knife. The aging outlaw sets off on a road trip to the limits of freedom with a corpse and a pile of drugs in his luggage. The woman condemned to death waits in her cell for execution, while a guard meticulously records her final hours.

The three have never met. What connects them lies beyond time and space - it is the instinct for survival that every human being carries within.

Inga Machel views her struggling characters with empathy and tenderness, and her language creates a powerful pull that is impossible to resist.

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Hardcover
  • Release: 19.06.2026
  • ISBN: 978-3-498-00772-0
  • 224 Pages
  • Author: Inga Machel

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Inga Machel , born in 1986, lives in Berlin. She studied Creative Writing and Cultural Journalism at the University of Hildesheim. In addition to her freelance work as a radio author and editor, she is also a licensed practitioner of psychotherapy. Her short story  Lieber A. received the New German Fiction Prize. Her debut novel, Auf den Gleisen, was nominated for the Prize of the Leipzig Bookfair for Fiction 2024.