The Rediscovery of Happiness

  • For over 50 years, the lives of four people on Madagascar intertwine
  • Antonia Michaelis makes the people on the edge of society into heroes
  • Total sales of Antonia Michaelis: more than 300,000 copies

Clothes, bottles, shoes - they can all be recycled. Why not happiness as well?

Madagascar was once a paradise, but today the island is almost completely deforested and stricken by poverty. It survives by recycling. Maybe that is why it is where the fate of four life journeys cross, allowing them to ultimately break free of their chains. There is Biscuit, the street urchin, who simply refuses to give up on his dreams. There is young Maribelle, who never learned to have dreams until she discovered the power of her spirit. And there are Terje and his daughter, Nora, who will set everything in motion twice.

A novel that is as poetic as it is haunting about the courage of going beyond limits.

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  • Publisher: Droemer HC
  • Release: 01.09.2021
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-28260-1
  • 336 Pages
  • Author: Antonia Michaelis
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Antonia Michaelis

Antonia Michaelis, born in 1979, is a well-known author of numerous books and theatre pieces for children, young adults and adults. Her novel ‘Der Märchenerzähler’ was nominated for the Deutsche Jugendbuchpreis and the Buxtehuder Bullen in 2012. Antonia Michaelis lives in a village near the island of Usedom with her husband and two daughters.