Ursula Poznanski YA/ All Age, 14+ • • • •
Thriller extraordinaire! Tense and electrifying Translation Grant guaranteed Great press reviews
HE CAN DO THINGS HE SHOULDN’T BE ABLE TO DO… HE KNOWS THINGS HE SHOULDN’T BE AWARE OF… 17-year-old Timo recovers from a serious accident at a remote rehab clinic. Soon, he realizes that there is something amiss. A boy in a vegetative coma. An otherwise hopeless case, walks around by night and threatens to kill Timo if he ever tells on him. Timo develops new abilities himself although his injuries still impair him immensely. He does things and knows stuff he shouldn't… “She thinks ahead in potential and risks of modern brain research, fingers on the pulse of time again – Dark mystery fraught with tension! Buchmarkt
Ursula Poznanski
Thalamus no. 8614, 448 pages,14+/All Age
“As in many of her books a Young Adult is confronted with an advanced technology that works in the background and gets noticed and understood only bit by bit: a progressively independent computer game in ‘Erebos’, glasses showing secret informations in ‘Layers’, a bracelet that surveys the biological data of its carrier in ‘Condemned’. ‘Thalamus’ is about biology too. (…) Ursula Poznanski is a well-versed author who easily manages to thrill over 450 pages. (…) That this novel mainly is about the ambivalence of medical research is obvious very soon. Like in her other stories an ethical dimension isn’t missing. (…) Humans are compared with models in a puppet theatre, they are being moved with great grace on strings, then they are lost quickly when the strings are being cut off. They loose the security they had before and need to move the strings on their own in this utopia. Puppet and marionette mover all in one.” Tilmann Spreckelsen, FAZ
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