The bestselling voice of Europe's fastest-growing, fastest-living city: the new Berlin.`The little jewellery box also held the red coral bracelet from Nikolai Sergeyevich. Its six hundred and seventy-five little coral beads were strung onto a silken thread, and they glowed as red as rage. My great-grandmother put the hairbrush down in her lap. She closed her eyes for a long time. Then she opened her eyes again, took the red coral bracelet from the little box and fastened it around her left wrist. Her skin was very white. That evening, for the first time in three years, she shared a meal with my great-grandfather.'Coral bracelets `as red as rage' from Russian lovers; a sad old woman who nonetheless `sometimes sang and winked with her left eye and laughed till the tears came'; country houses `away from Berlin, linden trees out front, chestnuts in the back, sky above': `The Summer House, Later' is an elegant, measured, reflective collection of stories which captures beautifully the promise of bright colours lying just out of reach of our grey daily routines.Set in and around Europe's fastest-growing, fastest-living city, these stories take as their starting point the monotony of modern urban life - the endless antennas and chimneys, the pigeons in the gutters - and looks beyond them to `the narrow strip of sky over the rooftops'. The literary sensation of the year in her native Germany, Judith Hermann is a wonderfully talented young writer whose ability to find drama and beauty in the smallest, most trivial moments makes `The Summer House, Later' a very special debut indeed.

The Summer House, Later

Literature & Fiction

Judith Hermann

Contemporary

Flamingo/ HarperCollins

When someone very close to you dies your whole life changes. Everything is different. Alice is the central figure in these five inter-connected narratives, which tell of her life at times of loss. Suddenly it is no longer possible to say what the person looked like, how he spoke, cursed, smiled, how he lived his life. Objects are left behind, books, letters, pictures and every now and again you think you can see them in a crowd.  Judith Hermann tells of days of transition, of waiting, of holding on and letting go-and of how clear and dazzling such days can sometimes be. Alice is a book of extraordinary power and great literary beauty from one of Europe's finest writers  Alice is translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo.

Alice

Clerkenwell

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S.Fischer Verlag

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S.Fischer

Sommerhaus, spater (German Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

S. Fischer Verlag GmbH

<p>Judith Hermann hat einen Roman geschrieben über die Zumutungen der Liebe und die Schutzlosigkeit im Leben. Stella und Jason sind verheiratet, sie haben eine Tochter, Ava, sie leben in einem Haus am Rand der Stadt. Ein schönes, einfaches Haus, ein kleiner Garten, ein alltägliches ruhiges Leben, meist ohne Jason, der viel arbeitet. Aber eines Tages steht ein Mann vor der Tür dieses Hauses, ein Fremder, jemand, den Stella nie zuvor gesehen hat. Er sagt, er wolle sich einfach einmal mit ihr unterhalten, mehr sagt er nicht. Stella lehnt das ab. Der Fremde geht und kommt am nächsten Tag wieder, er kommt auch am Tag darauf wieder, er wird sie nicht mehr in Ruhe lassen. Was hier beginnt, ist ein Albtraum, der langsam, aber unbeirrbar eskaliert. In einer klaren, schonungslosen Sprache und irritierend schönen Bildern erzählt Judith Hermann vom Rätsel des Anfangs und Fortgangs der Liebe, vom Einsturz eines sicher geglaubten Lebens.</p>

Aller Liebe Anfang

Literary

Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH

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