The incredible story of Henry N. Brown
World Rights:
Sold to Paperback (Rowohlt), Italy (Sperling & Kupfer), Spain (Grijalbo) and USA (Nortia Press).
Hardcover:
Thiele Verlag (416 pages). More than 75.000 copies sold in Germany.
Henry N. Brown came into the world on 16 July 1921. He had to wait until his second eye was sewn on before he could see, but from then on his life was never dull. His travels took him on a veritable Odyssey through Europe, from England to France and onto Germany, Norway, Italy and Hungary.
This is the story of the twentieth century in times of war and peace, triumph and defeat, as witnessed by a teddy bear. Like all soft toys, Henry can’t talk or move by himself. He is a natural listener, a mirror for the human soul. His gift is to provide people with what they can’t find elsewhere.
But over the years no one realizes that Henry is carrying something inside him, something that he calls „the love”. It’s a secret that he has kept for a lifetime, a secret that comes out in the very end when Henry causes the alarm at the Vienna airport where his new owner, a German author who bought him from an Austrian antique shop, tries to get through the security bars ... A secret that will touch every reader’s heart.
A warm-hearted story of life, loss and love, seen through the eyes of a teddy-bear who gets to know not only some of his „owners“ very close but also the history of our last century. A Teddybear’s philosophy at its best.