by Hanns-Josef Ortheil · btb Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442770373
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«Der von den Löwen träumte» is the biographical novel by Hanns-Josef Ortheil, published by btb Verlag in paperback (352 pages, in German).
In 1948, Ernest Hemingway travels to Venice in the midst of a personal and creative crisis. Depressed and without publishing novels for years, he finds in the lagoon the friendship of a young fisherman and the love of an eighteen-year-old Venetian woman. The fisherman, meanwhile, senses the seed of another story: that of an old man and his love for the sea.
Novel originally published in 2019; this edition appeared in November 2020.
Aimed at readers of historical and biographical fiction, especially those interested in Hemingway and literature about writers.
Hanns-Josef Ortheil is a German author, scholar of German literature, and pianist. He has written many autobiographical and historical novels, some of which have been translated into 11 languages, according to WorldCat: French, Dutch, Modern Greek, Spanish, Chinese, Lithuanian, Japanese, Slovenian, and Russian.
