Elisa Hoven's New Novel 'Feine Risse' Launches with Three Readings

Elisa Hoven, a criminal law professor at Leipzig University and judge at the Saxon Constitutional Court, will release her new novel 'Feine Risse' on May 27. The book follows defense attorney Eva Herbergen as she confronts the blurred lines between law and justice, guilt and silence. Hoven, born in Berlin in 1982, has researched at Cambridge, Harvard, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Phnom Penh, Basel, and Sydney. She lives in Berlin with two children. Three launch readings are scheduled: May 26 at Berlin's Renaissance Theater/Bruckner Foyer (in conversation with Thomas Böhm), May 27 at Leipzig's Haus des Buches/Literaturhaus Leipzig (with Nicolas van Veen), and June 2 at Frankfurt's Romanfabrik (with Heike Borufka).