Caught in the Spider's Web

Caught in the Spider's Web

The story of David and Anna

A magnificent, moving family novel about people who dream of living in a fairer society. After "1848" and "Fünf Finger hat die Hand" (The Hand has Five Fingers), the third and last part of the Jacobi saga – a unique trilogy.

Berlin in 1890: 17-year-old David falls in love with Anna this summer, a sassy young girl who has her heart in the right place. She wants to wait for him in case he ends up in jail like his grandfather. He hangs up posters that were against the government, gets expelled from school and now they are threatening to charge him for violating the “socialist law”. Kordon’s new historic novel – perhaps his most warm-hearted and most charming – plays in a time when the German Kaiserreich flaunted its wealth on one hand and political randomness led to unbelievable poverty on the other. The Jacobis try to do something about it.