In 736 pages, angela Merkel reflects on her life in her memoirs. The former Chancellor set a first week sales record.
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Angela Merkel’s book “Freedom” is the most successful book of the year so far. In the first week of sales, the former chancellor’s memoirs were sold more then 200,000 times. This is the result of an analysis by the company Media Control,which records book sales in Germany and also creates the spiegel bestseller list.
“No othre book has had such a brilliant start this year,” says Ulrike Altig, managing director of Media Control. Just a few days after its publication, Merkel’s work, written together with her long-time confidant Beate Baumann, took the bestseller lists by storm.
In “freedom. Memories 1954 – 2021” the seventy-year-old retraces her life in 736 pages. (dpa)