Theirs is a love against all odds, entwined with the twisting paths of German history, leading us from the late 19th to the early 21st century, from Germany to Africa and the Arctic, from the Baltic Sea to the German south-west. 'When she falls in love with Herbert, a local aristocrat obsessed with the era's dreams of power, glory and greatness, her life is irremediably changed.

'Smart and precocious, she fights against the prejudices of the time to find her place in a world that sees her as second-best,' reads the synopsis. The book follows Olga, an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century, who according to the book's author 'had to live below her capabilities – next to men who lived above theirs' but 'loves against all odds'. It has since been translated from the German by literary translator Collins, whose co-translation of Nino Haratischvili’s The Eighth Life: for Brilka was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020. Olga was a number one Spiegel bestseller and remained on the Spiegel hardcover fiction list for 35 weeks. W&N has acquired Olga by The Reader author Bernhard Schlink , a novel 'of love, passion and history', focusing on the life of one woman from late 19th-century Prussia to modern Germany, translated by Charlotte Collins.įederico Andornino, editorial director at Weidenfeld & Nicolson, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) in a deal struck by Susanne Bauknecht at Diogenes Verlag.

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