Kai Meyer The Flowing Queen, Volume 1 » The Flowing Queen « 12+, June 2001 288 pages, 14.0 x 21.5 cm ISBN 978-3-7855-4015-2 hardcover 14,90 € (D) Rights sold: Chinese (simplf.), Croatian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Slovenian, British English (UK, Ireland, British Commonwealth, Australia, New Zealand, Canada), French, American English, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Serbian, Portuguese, Thai, Hebrew, Czech, Turkish

Merle's world is full of magic. In a Venice where magic has never died, everyone is whispering about the Flowing Queen, but only Merle gains her friendship. When the powers of evil threaten this fantastic being, an exciting struggle is enacted in the labyrinth of dark alleys and canals. Mermaids and winged lions, master thieves and magic mirror makers are all interested in the Flowing Queen for reasons of their own. But then the earth opens up, flames shoot into the air and something indescribable ascends from below… Kai Meyer demonstrates his narrative skills in the first volume of his trilogy about Merle and the Flowing Queen. With an inexhaustible fund of ideas he creates a magic world which will fascinate readers of every age. “There is much that is open to interpretation in the magic realism woven out of dreams, myths and history that suggests the simultaneous existence of various worlds.“ Die Rheinpfalz

Kai Meyer published his first novel when he was 23 years old. Since then he has written about forty ...