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Die Alchimistin
1998
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Der Roman um das größte Mysterium der Menschheit - die Unsterblichkeit. Die letzten Tage des 19. Jahrhunderts. Im düsteren Schloß ihrer Ahnen wächst Aura Institoris inmitten eines Labyrinths endloser Gänge und Säle heran. Als ihr Vater, der Alchimist Nestor Nepomuk Institoris, im Auftrag seines ärgsten Widersachers Lysander ermordet wird, gerät Aura unversehens zwischen die Fronten eines Konflikts, dessen Wurzeln weit zurück ins Mittelalter reichen. An der Seite ihres verhaßten Stiefbruders Christopher nimmt das Mädchen den Kampf gegen den alten Feind ihres Vaters auf, der in den Katakomben unter der Wiener Hofburg seine Ränke schmiedet. Eine spannende Verfolgungsjagd beginnt, die von den Mooren des Nordens über Wien, Venedig und Siebenbürgen bis nach Swanetien führt, einem vergessenen Bergland jenseits des Schwarzen Meeres.
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Kai Meyer
Kai Meyer
Author · 59 books

With millions of books sold worldwide, Kai Meyer is one of Germany's most successful authors. His novels have been translated into 27 languages including English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Chinese. Kai Meyer was born in 1969 in northern Germany. He began college at the University of Bochum, Germany, where he studied film, theatre, and philosophy. After a year, he dropped out to work for a newspaper as a trainee journalist, followed by two years as a staff journalist. Kai wrote his first novel in his early 20s, and it was published when he was just 24 years old. He has been a full-time novelist since 1995. To date, Kai has written nearly 50 books – some for adults, some for teenagers. Kai’s books are mostly historical with strong fantastical overtones. There are over 1.5 million Kai Meyer books in print in Germany, and he is quickly gaining popularity in other countries as well: THE WATER MIRROR went into its third US printing before it was even delivered to bookstores, and his young adult dark fantasy series SIEBEN SIEGEL is a substantial hit in Japan. The British edition of THE FLOWING QUEEN / THE WATER MIRROR won the 2007 Marsh Award for Best Children´s Book in Translation. In 2007 his historical novel DAS GELÜBDE (The Vow) was turned into a movie by celebrated German director Dominik Graf. SIEBEN SIEGEL is set to be filmed in 2008, other books are optioned. Kai has also written screenplays, two of which have been made into TV movies. He is the author of a hardcover comic book, PANDORAMICUM, and is one of the creators of the fantasy role-playing game ENGEL (US edition by White Wolf). Kai Meyer lives in Westphalia near the Rhine in Germany.

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