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The Have-Nots
Die Habenichtse
Katharina Hacker (born 1967)
Translated by Helen Atkins
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The Have-Nots
Europa Editions · United States · February 2008 · Paperback · 300 pages
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Isabelle and Jakob meet on 11 September 2001. They marry and move to London, where Jakob joins a law firm. They seem to have everything that marks a young, successful couple, and yet they stand there empty-handed. In their thirties, they know everything except themselves; they drift and are driven at the same time. Through the most pressing questions of the present, the story asks how you want to live, what your values are and how you can act, and how an inability to decide or to feel for others collides with a longing for real experience.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 308 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United Kingdom, 2000s
- First published
- 2006 by Suhrkamp Verlag
- Author's age
- 39 when first published
- ISBN
9783518417393 (original)
9781933372419 (Europa Editions, United States)
- More
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