About people

The bestseller by Juli Zeh at a special price, read by Anna Schudt.

Dora has moved to the countryside with her little dog. She urgently needed to get out of the city, even though she doesn't quite know what she's fleeing from. The big city, lockdown, a stressful job, an overzealous boyfriend, plus Donald Trump, Brexit, and right-wing populism – when did the world become so chaotic? It was clear to Dora that Bracken, this small village in the Brandenburg nowhere, is not the rural idyll that some city dwellers dream of. Everyone warned her about the provinces. Yet here she is, in an old house on a wild property, with a bald neighbor behind the garden wall who seems to fit all the stereotypes. But then things happen that shake her worldview. She meets people who don't fit into any mold and faces a challenge that demands an answer to the big question of what truly matters in life. Juli Zeh's new major novel tells of our immediate present and the people it brings forth. Of their biases, weaknesses, and fears. And of their strengths that come to light when they dare to be human. Unabridged reading with Anna Schudt, 1 MP3-CD, 10h 11min.