A Little Prince and a Little Blue Mermaid

A Modern Fairy Tale
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-384-72940-8
Verlag: tredition

Buch, Englisch, 96 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 261 g

A modern fairy tale about a young man who leaves his beloved homeland to discover the world and find love without thinking about the consequences.

Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a small kingdom on the Mediterranean where people lived happily.

In this small country, a boy was born one spring to a family of princes. He was the only son of the family and had been long awaited.
When he was old enough, he was sent with his old teacher to the Oasis of Knowledge so that he could learn everything he needed for his life. On the way to the oasis, he had many extraordinary experiences and encounters.
One of these was his encounter with the Fairy of Wisdom, who predicted a very long journey to an unknown land that would require all his strength and his full wits. She also told him that he would find happiness with an unknown being.
And the little prince left his home and travelled to the land of the blue people.
Did he find happiness there?
A modern fairy tale not just for children

Zielgruppe

A book for anyone interested in the fate of people who give up everything they were born with for love. Social status, family, education, recognition: exchanged for great love at first sight with a girl in a foreign country, but also for rejection and mistrust from a society that could never become his home.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ghanem, Michael

Über Autor(innen)

Ghanem, Michael
Born in 1949, he grew up in France and graduated from an elite French university for industrial engineers. After moving to Germany, he studied economics, sociology, political science, philosophy and ethics. In the field of philosophy, he was strongly influenced by the philosophy and teachings of Zarathustra, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Rabelais, Michel de Montaigne, Baruch Spinoza, Thomas Aquinas, Ibn Khaldun, Niccolo Machiavelli, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Gottfried W. Leibniz, Auguste Comte, Arthur Schopenhauer, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Karl Marx, Henri Bergson, Karl Popper, Karl Jaspers, and Erich Fromm. In the field of economics, he was strongly influenced by post-Keynesians and behavioural economists. He is highly critical of the teachings of Milton Friedman, the Chicago Boys, the Frederick School and Friedrich A. Hayek. His professional career first took him to an international organisation, where he worked for five years as a project controller for major water projects, mainly in Africa, and thanks to this, he was able to get to know a large number of countries and their leaders. He then worked for many years for a European organisation and several international consulting firms. He considers himself a critic of current globalisation and has been strongly committed to water management and economics issues since 1974. These experiences have given him a deep understanding of geopolitical issues and enabled him to assess current political developments, particularly in the context of economic interdependencies. Since his retirement, he has been living a secluded life in Bonn and working as a writer. In his publications, he focuses primarily on the pressing social, economic and political issues of our time, as well as water management. To date, he has published numerous works on politics and geopolitics, society and economics. Other key topics include health, identity, racism, the environment, migration, water management, Africa, demographic development and alternative economic systems such as anti-fragility economics. He has also published several short stories and fairy tales.