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The Week in Germany: Culture January 26, 2007 Bestsellers - a look at what Germany is reading
Frank Schätzing is more than a jack of all trades; it seems he is a master of most of them as well. The audio version of his 2003 eco-apocalyptic thriller The Swarm, features Schätzing reading the text accompanied by music he composed himself, and the marketing firm he runs when he isn’t too busy penning international bestsellers handled the commercial side of things as well. Schätzing’s latest, Messages from an Unknown Universe, is a foray into yet another new territory for the polymath from Cologne: non-fiction. It is the true story of the oceans that our evolutionary ancestors crawled out of millennia ago, and explains how our relationship to the oceans has deteriorated ever since we lost our gills. The book is an outgrowth of four years of research for The Swarm, a sci-fi thriller about scientists tracking a revolt of the world’s flora and fauna against mankind. Although the book weighed in at about 1,000 pages, he had so much material left over from the research that he crafted into Messages, to the delight of millions of Swarm fans. As TWIG reported in 2004, a trio of international film moguls including Uma Thurman have acquired the rights to The Swarm. Filming is set to begin in 2008, but there is still no word whether Schätzing will be playing the lead, designing the sets, doing the make-up, mixing the audio, or providing catering services on the set: given his track record, nothing would surprise us. Author, title, English title, and publisher follow. (If an English title is unavailable, a translation will be provided). FICTION
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*These books were not originally English-language books or have not yet been translated into English Der Spiegel's bestseller list is compiled by an electronic data collection system that surveys the weekly sales of 250 book stores in Germany. It is divided into fiction and nonfiction, and does not include paperbacks, special editions, reference works, guidebooks, and children's books. Links: |
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