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Zeh, Juli
Juli Zeh is a German author born in Bonn. She studied law and literature in Passau and Leipzig and publishes short stories, essays and novels alongside her work as a lawyer. In 2005, she received the Per Olov Enquist Prize, a new award for young European authors.
Juli Zeh lives in Leipzig. She is married to the photographer and author David Finck. They have two children together.
Zeh tackles...
Literary figures
Mike (Michael) Padillo
Gender: Male
After the Second World War, he was forced (through blackmail) to become a spy and executioner for an extremely secret American secret service. But he is also the part-owner, together with ‘Mac’ McCorkle, of a bar in Bonn. Michael (Mike) Padillo is half Estonian, half Spanish, and would like to live a life in calm and peace, but in a suite of novels by Ross Thomas he is obliged to undertake sev...