FAIR PLAY

Join in, or You'll Lose Everything!

  • A gripping novel about an experiment that spins out of control, told from the four perspectives of the main characters.
  • English sample translation available!

  • Oldenburg Children's and Youth Literature Prize in 2021! 

  • "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.” Jury of the Oldenburg Children's and Youth Literature Prize

  • Thrilling like "The Wave" by Morton Rhue, frighteningly real like a new edition of George Orwell's 1984 with a focus on climate policy and the responsibility of each individual in society.

A competition. A school. Four students. And a bold idea: what if everyone could see your environmental sins on your social media accounts?  Would you get your act together? Only consume so much energy, food, everything, so that the icon of your app stays green instead of red? Would you play fair? Or...

What starts as a project quickly develops into a movement that soon claims its first victims. Friendships, family ties and loyalties are put to the test. One question hovers over everything: How far would you go to defend your convictions and what will it cost you?

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  • Publisher: Rotfuchs
  • Release: 01.07.2024
  • ISBN: 978-3-7571-0081-0
  • 336 Pages
  • Author: Kerstin Gulden
  • 14 +
FAIR PLAY
Kerstin Gulden FAIR PLAY
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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.