Marion Poschmann was born in Essen in 1969. She is the author of four novels, the last three of which have all been nominated for the German Book Prize. She won the prestigious Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize in 2013. The Pine Islands is her first novel to be translated into English.
‘Gilbert Silvester woke up distraught. Mathilda’s black hair lay spread out on the pillow next to him, tentacles of a malevolent pitch-black jellyfish.’
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