Rediscover Vicki Baum - with her best novels! Vicki Baum wrote countless bestsellers from the 1920s to the 1950s and lived the life of a global star. Her publisher now honors her with a groundbreaking biography and a new edition of her most famous novels. "Hotel Shanghai," published in 1949, is considered a masterpiece of popular literature and is much more than that: The story of nine people who meet in a hotel from various parts of the world at the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War and are ultimately killed by a bomb serves as a plea for peace and life in its diverse, enchanting form. Also published simultaneously by Kiepenheuer & Witsch is Nicole Nottelmann's "The Careers of Vicki Baum: A Biography.".