FOREIGN RIGHTS AUTUMN 2013 - Hanser Literaturverlage

YO U N G A D U LT S F I C T I O N
A story about lions’
manes, books that come
to life, glittering castles
and cheeky princes
When young lionesses fall in love…
Tova lives on the wrong side of town with her mother, her two siblings and her grandfather.
She doesn’t know her father and no one ever mentions him. There’s not a lot
of money to go round, but her mother has just opened a shop and they’ve all got their
fingers crossed… More and more often Tova is sent on errands, delivering floral bouquets
and wreaths uptown where the houses are a lot more elegant and the castle
lights glitter “like a shillion mining stars,” as her little sister Elseline would put it.
One day Tova is waiting for the streetcar with an especially heavy package when a boy
she doesn’t know walks right up and tells her that with a mane like hers she should
be in the circus. He’s a bit forward but he has friendly, dark brown eyes and a cheeky
grin. And he looks like he comes from a rich background. But what Tova can’t possibly
know is that the impudent young man is none other than Prince Borries himself...
Karla Schneider
Tova und die Sache
mit der Liebe
Tova and a Thing called Love
336 pages. Hardcover
From age 12
Publication date: July 2013
Karla Schneider
was born in Dresden in
1938. She worked as a
bookseller and journalist
before moving to Wuppertal
and becoming a full-time
writer in 1979. Die abenteuerliche
Geschichte der
Filomena Findeisen and
Die Reise in den Norden are
just two of her best-known
works. Previous publications
at Hanser include Glückskind
(2003), Die Geschwister
Apraksin. Das Abenteuer
einer unfreiwilligen Reise
(2006) and Marcolini oder
wie man Günstling wird
(2007).
19 C H I L D R E N ’ S B O O K S
F O R E I G N R I G H T S HANSER