Born 1964 · Germany
Deutscher Buchpreis 2020 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Heart Thread”
Thomas Hettche · 56 when first published
Novel · 279 pages · Historical, Family
AI-generated summary:After a show at the Augsburg puppet theatre, a twelve-year-old girl finds a hidden door to an attic where the woman who carved the famous marionettes tells the story of the theatre and the family that founded it.
Deutscher Buchpreis 2014 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Peacock Island”
Thomas Hettche · 50 when first published
Novel · 343 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:On the Peacock Island in the Havel, a royal artificial paradise, Marie, a girl of short stature, grows up between palm house and menagerie in the years after the Napoleonic Wars, helping the royal family on their visits.
Deutscher Buchpreis 2006 · Shortlist
Woraus wir gemacht sind
Thomas Hettche · 42 when first published
Novel · 311 pages · Crime, Politics
AI-generated summary:Niklas Kalf, writing a biography of a Jewish émigré, travels to New York with his wife Liz in 2002. Soon after they arrive, Liz is kidnapped, and Kalf is blackmailed into uncovering a secret about his subject.