Where Love Beginns

Judith Hermann has written a novel about how love tries us – and about how vulnerable we really are in life.

Stella is married. She has a child, a job which fulfils her, and she lives with her family in a beautiful house on the outskirts of the city. Her life is simple and peaceful. Until one day, a man is standing at her door – a man Stella has never seen before, but who thinks all the same that his life is connected with hers. This day marks the beginning of a nightmare which builds slowly but inexorably.
In clear, uncompromising language and imagery of discomforting beauty, Judith Hermann weaves a tale of love’s mysterious beginnings and equally mysterious progression – and of the collapse of a life thought safe.

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  • Publisher: S. FISCHER
  • Release: 14.08.2014
  • ISBN: 978-3-10-033183-0
  • 224 Pages
  • Author: Judith Hermann
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Judith Hermann

Judith Hermann was born in Berlin in 1970. Her debut story collection Summerhouse, Later (1998) was extremely well received. It was then followed in 2003 by the story collection Nothing But Ghosts , and several of the stories contained in the latter were adapted for film in 2007. In 2009, she published Alice , five short stories that received international acclaim. Her first novel, Where Love Beginns , came out in 2014. It was followed in 2016 by the short story collection Lettipark , which was awarded the Danish Blixen Prize for Short Stories. Hermann has received numerous awards for her work, including the Kleist Prize and the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. Her novel Home was published in spring 2021. It was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and received the Bremen Literature Prize in 2022. Most recently, S. Fischer published We'd Have Told Each Other Everything , based on the Frankfurt poetry lectures given by Judith Hermann in spring 2022. The author received the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize for this work. Judith Hermann lives and writes in Berlin.