November Sky (26 page)

“True love is never all spent. The more you give, the more you have left.”

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
Wind, Sand and Stars

About the Author

Photo © 2014 Marleen Reichenberg

Marleen Reichenberg was born and raised near Munich, Germany. Before publishing her first novel in 2012, Reichenberg studied law and worked for several years as a lawyer. She currently lives in southern Germany with her husband and two children.

About the Translator

Photo © Nina Chapple

Gerald Chapple is an award-winning translator of German literature. He received his doctorate at Harvard and went on to teach German and comparative literature at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He has been translating contemporary German-language authors for over forty years. His prose work includes two books by the Austrian writer Barbara Frischmuth,
The Convent School
and
Chasing After the Wind
, completed with cotranslator James B. Lawson; Michael Mitterauer’s probing history of Europe from 600 to 1600,
Why Europe? The Medieval Origins of Its Special Path
; Anita Albus’s wonderfully idiosyncratic book
On Rare Birds
; and Bernadette Calonego’s English-debut thriller,
The Zurich Conspiracy
—plus three other titles for AmazonCrossing and 47North. He lives in Dundas, Ontario, with his wife, Nina, an architectural historian. When not translating, he can usually be found studying birds, butterflies, and dragonflies; reading; or listening to classical music.