Parents don’t disappear on a whim. Certainly not Corinna, Lucy’s celebrity mother. So – where is she? Determined to find her mother, Lucy – a yoga teacher in present-day Berlin – sets out on a journey of discovery with her throwback hippie father, Lou, in tow. Their adventure will take them to India and into the very heart of the buried truth about her family and her own origins. In Rishikesh, the Yoga Town in the Himalayan foothills, where her parents once crossed paths with the Maharishi and the Beatles, and where, as she gradually learns, her own story began in the heady days of the late 1960s, Lucy’s and her family’s troubled present and past collide head-on ...

ISBN 978-1-935830-85-6 (pbk)
ISBN 978-1-935830-84-9 (hc)
ISBN 978-1-935830-86-3 (ebook)

Publication Date: February 13, 2027

ABOUT THE AUTHOR & TRANSLATOR

Daniel Speck is one of Germany’s bestselling authors and screenwriters. His first novel, Bella Germania, published in 2016 and translated into several languages, including English (as Anywhere but Home), spent eighty-five weeks on Der Spiegel’s bestseller list and was that year’s most success-ful German debut work of fiction. Speck is the recipient of the Grimme Prize and the Bavarian Television Prize.

Anna Galt is a translator from Dublin, Ireland, who lives in Berlin, Germany. She studied German, English Literature and Literary Translation at Trinity College Dublin, completed a PhD in German/Theatre Studies and has worked as a dramaturg for the prison theatre project AufBruch in Berlin. Notable translations include Hartmut Böhme’s Fetishism and Culture (2014) and Thomas Köck's Climate Trilogy (2026). Yoga Town is her first translation of a full-length novel. She is also a yoga teacher.