GIFTED

Do You Have the Gift, Do You Have the Power? (Vol. 1)

  • Ages 13+
  • Kerstin Gulden’s new novel takes the reader into a world in which everything is possible – if you know how. Her previous book Fair Play was awarded the Oldenburg Children's and Youth Literature Prize in 2021!
  • Rights to Fair Play were sold to Lithuania (Terra Publica).

Have you been chosen to determine your own life?

Are you still waiting for your Hogwarts letter? Are you dreaming about the force being with you, if only you could stumble across a light sabre? Do you secretly hope that a spider bites you, a vampire, anything? In Pear’s and Balthazar’s world, magic powers are a birthright or fate. At least, that’s what they believe. Because when Balthazar suddenly belongs to the magic shapers, the two of them get caught in the middle. In the power game of those with or without a gift, their friendship is put to the test. They increasingly fight on opposing sides in the question of what it really means to be “chosen”. Can their friendship survive? 

"Kerstin Gulden creates lively and independent characters, all with their own different motivations and different character developments. (...)
A story about trust, solidarity and friendship that reaches its target audience.” Oldenburg Children's and Youth Literature Prize, Jury Commments on 'Fair Play'

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Taschenbuch
  • Release: 13.09.2022
  • ISBN: 978-3-499-00844-3
  • 416 Pages
  • Author: Kerstin Gulden

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Kerstin Gulden

Kerstin Gulden studied literature, philosophy and communication in Tübingen, Munich and London. Since then she has worked in London, Munich and Brussels, among other things as a press spokesperson and in cultural promotion. For several years she was on the jury of the German Business Book Prize.