Books

ROSE was bored in 2009 when her three children were at school, but the irregular Swiss timetable meant she couldn't move far from the house. The children flew in and out like bees in a hive.

 

Sitting at the kitchen table, waiting, she remembered her trip on a freighter to Australia in 1988. And when Juanes appeared on the kitchen counter and wouldn't budge, Rose's journey as a novelist and biographer began.

 

Book number eight was published in German this year. All the books are gradually being translated into English, Spanish and French. 

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A famous department store in Germany and the correspondence between a Jewish merchant and his non-Jewish advisor during the Holocaust is Rose's current biography project.

 

The two men's friendship against all odds humbles her.

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