To which places have the memories retreated?
Judith Hermann follows the traces of her grandfather, who was stationed in Radom, Poland, during the war. She thinks about what effect the little knowledge and the speechlessness in the family had - and what influence it also had on her writing. From Poland, she travels to her sister in Naples and pursues remembering and forgetting in subsequent generations. In intermediate and undertones, Judith Hermann tracks down the voids and damages of every life, but brings us a little closer to the beauty hidden therein with her magical and magnetic stories.
“Judith Hermann's books are unflinching explorations of human conditions." — Neue Zürcher Zeitung on Home
“A master storyteller.” — The Independent, London on Summerhouse, Later
“In the ‘Nobel Prize League’” — Frankfurter Rundschau on We'd Have Told Each Other Everything
Awards: Wilhelm-Raabe-Literaturpreis 2023, The Prize of LiteraTour Nord 2022, The Bremen Prize for Emerging Writers 2022, The Rheingau Literature Prize 2021, The Blixen Prize 2018 for Lettipark, The Erich Fried Prize 2014, The Friedrich Hölderlin Prize 2009, The Kleist Prize 2001, The Hugo Ball Young Writer's Award 1999, The Bremen Prize Young Writer's Award 1999
"Hermann demonstrates that literature truly comes into its own when dealing with the harshest truths – and is, in doing so, of incomparable linguistic beauty." - Frankfurter Rundschau, Sven Trautwein
"Judith Hermann [is] one of the most interesting contemporary authors in Germany" and "truly a literary event" - ARD Druckfrisch, Denis Scheck
"Every single sentence here [...] is spot on [...], which is something you very rarely come across" and "masterful [...], the sentences are magnificent; it really is a truly great book" - SRF Literaturclub, Wolfgang M. Schmitt
"It is rare to find literature that is so deeply moving and yet so enchanting as this." - Südwest Presse, Georg Leisten
"[We] are dealing [...] here with one of the most talented writers of our time." - tip Berlin, Marie Ladstätter
