Elly - A Gripping Tale of Grief, Longing, and Doubt

A missing child is a nightmare for any family. But what happens when they come back? Eleven-year-old Elly is missing. After an extensive police search she is presumed dead, and her family must learn to live with a gaping hole in their lives. Four years later, she reappears. But her family are plagued by doubts. Is this stranger really the same little girl who went missing? And if not, who is she?

About the author

Maike Wetzel was born in 1974 and works as a writer and screenwriter in Berlin. She studied at the Munich Film School and in the UK. The manuscript of her first novel, Elly, won the Robert Gernhardt Prize and the Martha Saalfeld Prize. Maike’s short stories have been translated into numerous languages and received multiple awards. Her collection Long Days was published by Comma Press in 2008, translated by Lyn Marven.

Lyn Marven is a translator from German specialising in contemporary literature, women’s writing, and short stories. Her previous translations include Maike Wetzel, Long Days (Comma Press, 2008), Berlin Tales (OUP, 2009), and Larissa Boehning, Swallow Summer (Comma Press, 2016). Lyn is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Liverpool, researching contemporary literature in German, with a particular interest in Berlin literature.

Product details

• Authors: Maike Wetzel
• Assisted by: Lyn Marven (Translation), Marven Lyn (Translation)
• Publisher: Faber Factory Plus GBS
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.04.2020
• EAN: 9781912854127
• ISBN: 978-1-912854-12-7
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Thrillers / General, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, Fiction in translation, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Crime & mystery fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary