A fire broke out in the coal seams of their town years ago, and the flames are still smoldering underground. Margaret and Fritzi, the two sisters who are the heroines of Invitation to the
Bold�of Heart, the debut novel by Swiss writers Dorothee Elmiger, are the last remaining youth of this vanishing town. Their inheritance is nothing but an abandoned swathe of land ruled
by devastation. But the sisters won't accept this state of affairs��hey set out on an expedition, determined to piece together the fragments of their family history. Only by learning their
own story can they look to the future with hope. When they rediscover a long-forgotten river, the Margaret and Fritzi can sense a new life ahead.
Invitation to the Bold of Heart is a startling dystopian tale of hope and exploration and a testament to the timeless need of youth to rebel against authority.
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Praise for the German Edition
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��he reader, too, gets to be at the mercy of this text�� myself turned into an echo chamber when I read it.����Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, author of
My Secret Is Mine:�Studies on
Religion and Eros in the German Middle Ages
