The Weight of a Human Heart
by Daniel Mallen
Description
Spring 1944. Injured German soldier Max Jessen returns from the Eastern Front to find that his Roma wife has died of TB, and his son Manfred has been transported to Auschwitz. A desperate Max decides he has no option but to volunteer for camp duty as an officer in the SS, hoping he can find and rescue his son. THE WEIGHT OF A HUMAN HEART is an emotionally charged historical adventure that asks what lengths people will go to in order to protect their loved ones.
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Rights available: World, all languages
Contact: Brian Langan brian@storylineagency.com (World, UK & Commonwealth);
or Helen Edwards helen@helenedwardsrights.co.uk (US & translation)
Author Biography
Daniel Mallen is a firefighter from Cork, Ireland. An earlier novel, The Judging of Abigail Perdue, was represented by Steve Kasdin at Curtis Brown in New York, and published by Curtis Brown Unlimited in August 2015. Daniel was invited to read at The National Arts Club in Manhattan in September 2016. In a previous guise, Daniel was a member of Irish pop band Treehouse Diner, who had a couple of hits on the Irish charts in the 1990s. He is also a former stained-glass artist and a published songwriter.
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Copyright (c) Daniel Mallen 2020
Storyline Literary Agency
Based in Ireland, Storyline Literary Agency was set up in 2019 by Brian Langan, a former editor at Penguin Random House, with the aim of disovering and nurturing the very best in new and emerging literary talent, and finding the ideal publishers for our clients. Our primary focus is on literary and genre fiction, and narrative non-fiction. Recent publishing deals include Iron Annie by Luke Cassidy (Bloomsbury, September 2021); Line by Niall Bourke (Tramp Press, spring 2021); and Fallen by Mel O'Doherty (Bluemoose Books, June 2021).
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- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusUnpublished
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