Max has been married to Tina for twenty-five years. She is the love of his life, but now he must come to terms with the fact that she is to spend a year away on a work assignment—away, for the f
As 1933 draws to a close, the pair arrive in Basel from Wuppertal, Germany. Rebels on the run, they are searching for an escape from the confines of a callously regimented society left impoverished by
In 1913, three German shipbuilders were ordered to reassemble a steam ship on Lake Tanganyika. At the same time, Winston Churchill sends Commander Geoffrey Spicer-Simson to transport two dilapidated a
In Search of Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson. Alex Capus is a French-Swiss novelist who writes in German. He is the author of the novels A Matter of Time and Lon and Louise, recently longlisted
Longlisted for the German Book Prize.A life-long love affair that survives the tribulations of two World Wars, Leon and Louise tells the story of Alex Capus' French grandfather. It charmed readers in
