Empty Hearts
  • Published:
    Aug-2019 (Hardcover)
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Thriller
  • Time Period:
    Futuristic
  • Pages:
    288
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A prescient political and psychological thriller ripped from tomorrow's headlines, by one of Germany's most celebrated contemporary novelists

A few short years from now, the world is an even more uncertain place than it is today, and politics everywhere is marching rightward: Trump is gone, but Brexit is complete, as is Frexit; there's a global financial crisis, armed conflict, mass migration, and an ultrapopulist movement governs in Germany. With their democracy facing the wrecking ball, most well-off Germans turn inward, focusing on their own lives. Britta, a wife, mother, and successful businesswoman, ignores the daily news and concentrates on her family and her work running a clinic specializing in suicide prevention.

But her legitimate business is connected to a secret and far more lucrative operation known as The Bridge, an outfit that supplies terrorist organizations looking to employ suicide bombers. Using a complex candidate-identifying algorithm designed by Babak, a brilliant programmer and Britta's only employee, The Bridge has effectively cornered the market, and terrorism almost never takes place without Britta's services--which is why news of a thwarted suicide attack in Leipzig comes as a shock. Then The Bridge's database is stolen and a colleague at the clinic murdered, driving Britta, Babak, and their latest recruit into hiding. On their heels is a new terrorist organization called Empty Hearts, a group unlike any they've encountered before.

Part suspenseful thriller, part wickedly effective social satire, Empty Hearts is a novel for our times, examining urgent questions of morality, politics, and culture, and presenting a startling vision of a future where empathy is a thing of the past.
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EDITIONS
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    • First Edition
    • Aug-2019
    • Nan A. Talese
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0385544545
    • ISBN13: 9780385544542
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    • Aug-2019
    • Nan A. Talese
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Aug-2019
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0385544553
    • ISBN13: 9780385544559



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