Description

In a series of three interconnected stories, Judith Hermann weaves together themes of psychology and friendship, unconventional childhoods, summers on the North German seashore and the act of writing itself. This is a literary narrative reflecting on when life becomes fiction, how dependable memory can be, and how close one’s dreams can come to reality.

Publisher Review

Very occasionally a book comes along that feels as if it were written just for me, and this is one of those rare books. All my life’s defining concerns, as a writer and a woman, are here, and Hermann conveys and examines them with generosity and honesty and insight. This book stimulated my mind and touched me to the core. — Claire-Louise Bennett In this book [Hermann] makes it admirably clear how confidently she can transform even the difficult, the barely bearable, the deadly dark into great literature * Der Spiegel * Judith Hermann’s books offer unflinching explorations of human relationships * Neue Zurcher Zeitung * With Judith Hermann you want to read every line, you don’t want to miss anything * Deutschlandfunk * This book . . . has incredible energy and beauty and brutality and radiance. On every page you feel ruthlessness and honesty and the necessity of the text * Die Zeit *