Parker

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 a contract and money. But most of all, he needs a new beginning.

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

Now he is back in Germany. And Annelie Schneider, the ambitious and hardened assistant to his new client, continually poses new challenges for him.

Matthias Göritz's novel is a thrilling story of intrigue, power, and love, exploring the irresistible temptation of success and its cost.

Matthias Göritz – a poet, playwright, translator, and novelist from Germany. He is the author of the novels Der kurze Traum des Jakob Voss (Jakob Voss's Short Dream, 2005), which received the Mari Cassen Prize for a debut novel in German, Träumer und Sünder (Dreamers and Sinners, 2013), which was awarded the Robert Gernhardt Prize, and Die Sprache der Sonne (The Language of the Sun, 2023). M. Göritz's first poetry collection, Tools, was published in 2011. Since then, the author has published two more collections of poems. He lives in St. Louis (USA), where he teaches and conducts research at the university. His poetry collection "A Short History of the Heart," translated into Belarusian by Volha Hapeyeva, was published in 2019.