The April Story – Ein wirklich erstaunliches Ding

German, Hank Green, 2024
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Who are you when the whole world is watching you? When April uploads a video of a mysterious sculpture to YouTube, she suddenly becomes the centre of global attention. Because identical statues have appeared all over the world and they don't seem to be from Earth. April dedicates herself to solving the mystery at all costs. She shares all her experiences on social media, becomes a regular guest on talk shows and even the government gets in touch with her. Soon April is no longer a person, but a brand, a symbol - and she becomes both victim and perpetrator in the uncompromising fight for fame. By the time she realises how much the media attention has changed her, it is too late to back down. Meanwhile, solving the mystery turns into a race against radical conspiracy theorists - and their attacks are not limited to the virtual world."Simply brilliant - the best book I've read about what our 'here and now' feels like." John Green "Popularity as a drug: Hank Green's debut novel is about the unfortunate side effects of fame. [...] Reading it develops a pull that is hard to resist." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "The [...] exciting thing is the novel's observations on virality, social media and popularity." Süddeutsche Zeitung "A fast-paced and deeply humanising novel with its finger on the pulse of the times, which immediately stormed the New York Times bestseller list." Kulturnews "Green pushes the boundaries of the genre." Spiegel Online "Hank Green's book went straight to number one on the fiction charts - and rightly so." jetzt.de "Blockbuster-worthy! Original, highly topical, fast-paced." SRF 1.

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