Creep
2022
Aufbau Verlage
About the Book
English title: Creep
ISBN: 978-3-351-03725-3
Fiction. 342 Pages
Aufbau. Hardcover
2022, January
Rights sold: Spanish World (Alianza/AdN)
Film rights sold
Sample Translation available
For his debut novel HOOL, Winkler received the ZDF aspekte Literature Prize for the best German-language debut, he was on the shortlist of the German Book Prize and invited to the Festival Neue Literatur in New York. HOOL was a Spiegel bestseller and sold over 50,000 copies. A film version is in the works. Rights sold to CZ | DK | FR | IT | NL | ES/Spanish World | US/English World | BY | CN/Simplified Characters
Synopsis
Fanni works for the leading provider of smart surveillance technology in Germany. She is still in the office when everyone else has long left because that’s when she can finally tap into the cameras of the Naumann family. Their home is the only place where Fanni feels something close to belonging and warmth.
On the other side of the world, Junya seems to never leave his bedroom. But at night he sneaks out of the apartment and onto the streets of Tokyo. He’s looking for that one moment when he can completely forget who he is. But he chooses an awful method to achieve this state of mind – violence and the recognition he receives for it in the darknet forums where he shares the videos of his forays.
Fanni and Junya live among us, but we don’t see them. They belong to the first generation that grows up with the Internet. Both seek in the life of strangers the things that they have otherwise given up hope for: control, belonging, liberation… In doing so, they cross boundaries that have long ceased to apply to them.
Creep is a novel about how digital hypermodernism distorts us and what we are prepared to do to escape the darkness – the darkness within us.
Praise for Creep
Already in 'HOOL' it was striking how close Winkler comes to his subject, how precisely he researches, how spot-on he describes. These qualities also distinguish 'Creep.' – TAZ
Another true Winkler – intense, grim and, unfortunately, frighteningly realistic. – WDR 5
What may sound like a dystopian near future is disturbingly contemporary. 'Creep' is a book about the brutalization caused by the digital world. Winkler presents this to us in a both entertaining and haunting way. – WDR 3
Highly suspenseful and deeply sad. – Deutschlandradio Kultur
About the Author
Philipp Winkler, born in 1986, grew up near Hannover, studied literary writing in Hildesheim and lives in Leipzig. He has lived in Kosovo and Japan. His debut novel HOOL was acclaimed by press and readers and sold over 50,000 copies.
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