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Parker has only one week left. His friend, an experienced player on the German political scene, invited him to become a media consultant and speechwriter for a promising young politician. Parker craves victory; he needs the contract and the money. But most of all, he needs a new start.

Parker’s book on coaching became a bestseller and earned him a global reputation as a genius of rhetoric. He was even invited to participate in a presidential election campaign. But many years have passed since then, and now he is going through his own turning point. It seems he never truly managed to stop and catch his breath since he left for the USA as a student. Parker — a working nomad with global connections — is always ready to drop everything and leave when someone gets too close to him. That is why his last girlfriend left him.

Now he is back in Germany. And Annelie Schneider, the ambitious and hardened assistant to his new client, constantly presents him with new challenges.

Matthias Göritz is a poet, playwright, translator, and novelist from Germany. Author of the novels “Der kurze Traum des Jakob Voss” (2005), which received the Mara Cassens Prize for the best debut novel in German, “Träumer und Sünder” (2013), honored with the Robert Gernhardt Prize, and “Die Sprache der Sonne” (2023). M. Göritz’s first poetry collection, “Tools”, was published in 2011. Since then, the author has published two more collections of poetry. He lives in St. Louis (USA), where he teaches and conducts research at the university. In Belarusian, his poetry collection “Karotkaja historyja serca” (A Short History of the Heart), translated by Volha Hapiejeva, was published in 2019.