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Verena Teke celebrates its premiere in the book box!
Event by: Buchbox Buchhandlung
Location: BUCHBOX! Buchhandlung Kastanienallee, Kastanienallee 97, Berlin - Bezirk Pankow
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Book premiere! On October 8th we will celebrate the debut and premiere of "Under Different Circumstances" in the BUCHBOX - be there when the two authors Verena Teke and Caroline Rosales exchange ideas about the novel, the writing process and many other exciting insights in our bookstore.
After a failed relationship, Hanna, in her mid-thirties, flees to Berlin. The signs for a new start are good. She meets Taner, who actually wants the same thing as her: a baby. But after two years, Hanna is still not pregnant. Initially optimistic, the couple sought help from a fertility clinic. But while everyone around her gets pregnant without any problems, Hanna finds herself getting further and further caught up in the grind of reproductive medicine, cycle by cycle. She faces schedules, hormone injections and their impact on her body. The relationship begins to have a crisis and Hanna loses more and more courage and nerves, when she should actually only be doing one thing: staying relaxed. The novel tells of nine months of hope and fear, of shattered dreams and the harsh reality of an unfulfilled desire to have children, of other circumstances that are sad, painful, absurd and often funny at the same time.
Verena Teke, born in Stuttgart in 1985, studied theater, film and television studies and German and worked in the theater. She lives with her family in Berlin.
Caroline Rosales, born in Bonn in 1982, studied regional studies in China and classical archeology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. During her college years, she lived in Beijing for a year, where she studied modern and classical Chinese. She is the author of several non-fiction books. “Sexually Available” and “Single Mom”, published in 2019, followed in 2021 by her first novel “The Life of No Woman” and her children’s book “Very Best Sisters” in 2021. From March 2021 to February 2023 she was an editor at ZEITmagazin ONLINE in the family department. Her first television series, a film adaptation of the book “Sexually Available,” ran in March 2024, and her novel “The Unlived” was published in the same month. She lives in Berlin with her four children.
The event is a cooperation between the publishing house Antje Kunstmann and BUCHBOX.
Verena Teke: © Leona Goldstein
After a failed relationship, Hanna, in her mid-thirties, flees to Berlin. The signs for a new start are good. She meets Taner, who actually wants the same thing as her: a baby. But after two years, Hanna is still not pregnant. Initially optimistic, the couple sought help from a fertility clinic. But while everyone around her gets pregnant without any problems, Hanna finds herself getting further and further caught up in the grind of reproductive medicine, cycle by cycle. She faces schedules, hormone injections and their impact on her body. The relationship begins to have a crisis and Hanna loses more and more courage and nerves, when she should actually only be doing one thing: staying relaxed. The novel tells of nine months of hope and fear, of shattered dreams and the harsh reality of an unfulfilled desire to have children, of other circumstances that are sad, painful, absurd and often funny at the same time.
Verena Teke, born in Stuttgart in 1985, studied theater, film and television studies and German and worked in the theater. She lives with her family in Berlin.
Caroline Rosales, born in Bonn in 1982, studied regional studies in China and classical archeology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. During her college years, she lived in Beijing for a year, where she studied modern and classical Chinese. She is the author of several non-fiction books. “Sexually Available” and “Single Mom”, published in 2019, followed in 2021 by her first novel “The Life of No Woman” and her children’s book “Very Best Sisters” in 2021. From March 2021 to February 2023 she was an editor at ZEITmagazin ONLINE in the family department. Her first television series, a film adaptation of the book “Sexually Available,” ran in March 2024, and her novel “The Unlived” was published in the same month. She lives in Berlin with her four children.
The event is a cooperation between the publishing house Antje Kunstmann and BUCHBOX.
Verena Teke: © Leona Goldstein