Enlarge image
Her new novel is not doing well in England: Joanne K. Rowling
Photo: Stuart C Wilson/Getty Images
The "Harry Potter" author Joanne K. Rowling has been publishing a crime series under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith for years, the latest being the sixth volume in the Cormoran Strike series.
"The Deep Black Heart" has already been published in England, and it's ready for Germany on September 7th.
One story line in particular is already causing a stir: a young woman is murdered, who is accused of transphobia by internet trolls.
Because of her views, Rowling herself is often referred to as
terf
, an acronym for Trans Exclusive Radical Feminist.
In a personal essay and on Twitter, she writes that "woman" should remain a biological term, and that she opposes throwing the doors of restrooms and locker rooms wide open to any man who thinks or feels he is a woman.
She was violently attacked for her opinion on social networks, and according to Rowling, she also received death threats.
Her new novel follows a YouTube cartoonist who is first terrorized online and later stabbed to death for posting a clip starring a dual-sex worm that some users have condemned as transphobic.
Speaking on a radio show hosted by Graham Norton, Rowling said she had no personal experience with the character.
"I had written the book long before these things happened to me online," says Rowling.
The press in England still does not give a good hair to "The Deep Black Heart", but this has more to do with the length of the novel than with the passage in question.
The Sunday Times complains: "No thriller should be 1,200 pages long," and the Telegraph critic groans: "It's really hard to fathom why the later books in the series have to be more than 1,000 pages long when they have no more depth or are more emotional than the earlier ones.«
kae
