Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
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Love at first sight: Amina and Sten run into each other in Dresden.
After a romantic dinner in a back room of the Semper Opera House, they see each other more often. But something stands between them. Not only Amina's past, but also Sten's racism.
Against the backdrop of Dresden's Elbe Baroque, the pretty Amina falls in love with Sten with the ice-blue eyes. But do they really fit together? Because he belongs to a racist movement, and she hates prejudices. She also carries a heavy package of a bad party night during her school days, in which he seems to be somehow involved.
In her debut novel, the young author Arunika Senarath creates a contemporary staff of young people who study, love, argue, celebrate between Neustadt and the Frauenkirche. And who is not unaffected by the political jolt to the right.
With a sample translation into English of the first chapters.
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Endorsements
"Arunika Senarath’s 2017 novel Diese eine Nacht [That One Night] addresses political themes ranging from right-wing extremism to racism to sexual assault, which are combined with the day-to-day life of the main character, a young woman attending university in Dresden. This combination is aimed to increase political engagement in young people by making difficult or complicated topics accessible, while also exposing them to a more diverse range of perspectives. The novel is situated in contemporary Dresden, examining the prominence of right-wing populist movements such as PEGIDA in former East Germany (GDR) and their impact on people of color." Malcolm A. Goldman, Portland State University
Reviews
"Love in times of Pegida. Arunika Senarath proves with That One Night that she can write darn well. Vividly, atmospherically dense."
Neue Rottweiler Zeitung
"Dresden novel."
BILD Dresden
"Enchanting presence. A beautiful constellation of people, love and passion in Saxony.
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Author Biography
Arunika Senarath was born in 1993 in Colombo, Sri Lanka and grew up in a small town in Baden-Württemberg. She studied political science and communication science at the TU Dresden and lives in Berlin. That One Night is her debut novel.
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mikrotext / Nikola Richter
mikrotext is a publisher for texts with attitude and for new narratives, founded in 2013 in Berlin by Nikola Richter The independent publishing house focusses on new literary texts that comment on contemporary questions and allow insights into tomorrow. The texts are inspired by discussions on social media platformes and reflect today’s global debates. All titles are published digital first. A selection is available in English. In 2020 and 2019, mikrotext was awarded the German Publisher Award by the Federal Ministry of Culture and Media.
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- Publisher mikrotext
- Publication Date January 2017
- Orginal LanguageGerman
- ISBN/Identifier 9783944543468
- Publication Country or regionGermany
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 16.99 EUR
- Pages224
- ReadershipTeenage/Young Adult
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleDiese eine Nacht
- Original Language AuthorsGerman
- EditionFirst edition / Original
- Copyright Year2017
- Dimensions17x10.8 cm
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