Born 1966 · Germany
Deutscher Buchpreis 2025 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Wax”
Christine Wunnicke · 59 when first published
Novel · 176 pages · Historical, Love
AI-generated summary:Eighteenth-century France, before and during the Revolution: Marie Biheron, who dissects corpses to model their insides in wax, and Madeleine Basseporte, who draws the anatomy of flowers, fall in love.
Deutscher Buchpreis 2020 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Lady with the Painted Hand”
Christine Wunnicke · 54 when first published
Novel · 165 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Bombay, 1764: the explorer Carsten Niebuhr is stranded on the island of Elephanta, though he should be in Arabia, together with Meister Musa, a Persian maker of astrolabes from Jaipur who meant to be in Mecca.