Lana Lux is a German-language writer, illustrator and presenter of Ukrainian-Jewish origin. She was born in Dnipro in 1986, emigrated to the Ruhr region in 1996 and has lived in Berlin since 2010. Her debut novel “Kukolka” was published in 2017 and her second novel “Jägerin und Sammlerin” (Huntress-Gatherer) in 2020. “Geordnete Verhältnisse” (Everything In Order) is her first novel published by Hanser Berlin.
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Hanser Berlin
When you have to leave your home country, everything depends on where you end up and the people you meet. Faina ends up in a small German town where at school she meets Philipp, a boy who throws temper tantrums, who likes plants better than people but desperately wants a friend. He wants Faina to be his friend, so he teaches her German and how to celebrate Christmas properly. He makes her his Faina. Years later, Philipp is the guy with a condominium and a steady girlfriend, and Faina shows up on his doorstep as an abandoned, debt-ridden pregnant woman. He lets her in, but at what price? “Geordnete Verhältnisse” is a story about anger and obsession – and a woman who refuses to become a man’s possession.