{"id":2727,"date":"2013-04-01T10:08:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T14:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2013-04-01T10:35:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T14:35:56","slug":"der-weg-der-gefallenen-sterne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/birthmarked\/der-weg-der-gefallenen-sterne\/","title":{"rendered":"Der Weg der gefallenen Sterne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third book in the Birthmarked trilogy, <em>Promised<\/em>, is being released today, April 1st, in Germany as <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/Der-Weg-gefallenen-Sterne-Roman\/dp\/3453267435\/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0\">Der Weg der gefallen Sterne<\/a> (The Path of the Fallen Star)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2728\" style=\"width: 355px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2728\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2728 \" alt=\"Book 3 in Germany comes out April 1, 2013.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/PromisedCoverGermany.png\" width=\"345\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/PromisedCoverGermany.png 345w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/PromisedCoverGermany-193x300.png 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Book 3 in Germany comes out April 1, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Naturally, I&#8217;m\u00a0thrilled about this.\u00a0 Oliver Plaschka has doubtless done a fantastic job with the translation, though regrettably I can\u2019t tell for myself since I know only the most paltry German. \u00a0(&#8220;Wo ist der bus\u00a0f\u00fcr\u00a0Igles?&#8221;) I find it very cool that Oliver is the same translator for Chbosky\u2019s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/Das-also-ist-mein-Leben\/dp\/3453267516\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1364821763&amp;sr=1-1\">Das also ist mein Leben<\/a><\/i> (<i>The Perks of Being A Wallflower)<\/i>, which I\u2019ve admired for ages.\u00a0 Oliver is also the author of the newly released <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/Das-Licht-hinter-Wolken-Zwei-Ringe-Lands\/dp\/3608939164\/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1364823304&amp;sr=1-5\">Das Licht hinter den Wolken: Lied des Zwei-Ringe-Lands<\/a><\/i>, which I would love to read if it becomes available in English.\u00a0 Thank you again, Oliver!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m reasonably certain that this is the description of <em>Der Weg der gefallenen Sterne<\/em> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.de\/Buch\/Der-Weg-der-gefallenen-Sterne-Roman\/Caragh-O-Brien\/e372138.rhd\">Heyne<\/a>, my German publisher:<\/p>\n<p><b>Der gro\u00dfe H\u00f6hepunkt von Caragh O\u2019Briens dystopischer Jugendbuchsaga<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Die junge Gaia Stone ist Hebamme. Doch in einer zerst\u00f6rten Welt kann auch sie den verlorenen Kindern nicht mehr helfen, und so trifft Gaia eine schwere Entscheidung. Gemeinsam mit einer Gruppe junger Siedler verl\u00e4sst sie das \u00d6dland, um zur Stadt hinter der Mauer zur\u00fcckzukehren und um Hilfe zu bitten. Werden sie die gef\u00e4hrliche Reise \u00fcberstehen? Und wird sich Gaias Hoffnung auf eine bessere Zukunft endlich erf\u00fcllen?<\/p>\n<p>Gerade hat Gaia in der Siedlung Sylum eine neue Heimat gefunden, da steht sie schon wieder vor gro\u00dfen Ver\u00e4nderungen. Denn die Menschen von Sylum leiden an einer sonderbaren Krankheit: Sie k\u00f6nnen den Ort nur um wenige Meilen verlassen, bevor sie lebensgef\u00e4hrliche Schw\u00e4cheanf\u00e4lle erleiden. Ein Hinweis in den Aufzeichnungen ihrer Gro\u00dfmutter zeigt Gaia jedoch, wie sie dieser gro\u00dfen Gefahr entfliehen k\u00f6nnen. Und so begibt sie sich mit einer Gruppe Siedler auf die gef\u00e4hrliche Reise zur\u00fcck zu dem Ort, dem sie einst entflohen ist \u2013 der Enklave, der Stadt hinter der Mauer. Weder die junge Gaia noch ihre Gef\u00e4hrten wissen, was sie dort erwartet \u2026<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2731\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2731\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2731 \" alt=\"The Birthmarked trilogy in Germany\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/GermanCovers350.png\" width=\"350\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/GermanCovers350.png 350w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/GermanCovers350-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Birthmarked trilogy in Germany<\/p><\/div>\n<pre>For a video on where it all began:\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Buchbesprechung: Caragh O&#039;Brien - Die Stadt der verschwundenen Kinder - Heyne fliegt\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tHgDvdJIlLc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\nGl\u00fcckliche dunklen Lesen! \u00a0(Happy dark reading!)<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third book in the Birthmarked trilogy, Promised, is being released today, April 1st, in Germany as Der Weg der gefallen Sterne (The Path of the Fallen Star). Naturally, I&#8217;m\u00a0thrilled about this.\u00a0 Oliver Plaschka has doubtless done a fantastic job with the translation, though regrettably I can\u2019t tell for myself since I know only the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,147],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthmarked","category-promised-2","tag-promised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2754,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions\/2754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}