Für das richtige Leben ist es nie zu spät
EWALD ARENZ
LOVE ON BAD DAYS / DIE LIEBE AN MIESEN TAGEN

A novel, ca. 384 pages
Spring 2023
English sample available

#1 SPIEGEL Bestseller List

More than 180,000 copies sold

“Especially on bad days, and there are quite a few of them at the moment, self-care and cynicism don't warm you up. This book does.”Elisa von Hof, DER SPIEGEL

"It is a great pleasure to read how Arenz captures the magic of the beginning.”
Anne Burgmer, KÖLNER STADT-ANZEIGER

"Reads brilliantly!"
Katja Nele Bode, BRIGITTE WOMAN

"Ewald Arenz has [...] once again succeeded in writing a wonderful book. Sensitively, he tells of great, wild feelings."
Andrea Gerk, NDR KULTUR


A Book About Love and the Courage to Let it Happen

From their first meeting, Clara and Elias know that they are meant for each other. This changes everything: Elias can no longer suppress the fact that he is stuck in a false life with his girlfriend. And Clara realisesthat it is time to give up her self-imposed solitude. But there is the age difference and her unresolved feelings of guilt following her husband's death. Elias, on the other hand, doesn't really know how to stand by anything in life, because as an actor he knows how to rescue himself from reality into the play again and again. The wild happiness of the first days is followed by the first test, and the two doubt and fight with and for each other. Can one, no longer quite young and laden with life experience, find and live love once again, or even for the first time? The answer is: Yes!
Is it possible to find love again –or for the first time –when you’re no longer young, and weighed down with heavy baggage?

Rights sold to: Host (Czech); Nieuw Amsterdam (Dutch); Varrak (Estonian)

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Ewald Arenz

Ewald Arenz, born in Nürnberg in 1965, studied English and American literature and history. He is a teacher at a secondary school in Nürnberg. His...
Ewald Arenz, born in Nürnberg in 1965, studied English and American literature and history. He is a teacher at a secondary school in Nürnberg. His novels and plays have received many awards. The author lives near Fürth with his family.