The brilliant second collection of stories from Germany's answer to Zadie Smith. Judith Hermann's first collection, `The Summer House, Later', sold 250,000 hardbacks in Germany, and was shortlisted for both the IMPAC award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
Un quarantenne senza qualità che sembra aver raggiunto quello stato per unanaturale disposizione è stato appena lasciato dalla donna con cui viveva,accusato di incapacità di progettare il futuro. La sua è un'odissea quotidianaambientata nelle strade e nei sobborghi di una piccola città tedesca, ma ciòche la rende interessante è la curiosa attività che il protagonista esercita:provare nuovi modelli di scarpe di lusso e fare dettagliate relazioni inproposito.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION Judith Hermann's masterly new stories reveal the inconceivable drama of what happens when we meet someone? In the stories of Letti Park , strangers wander into ordinary lives and change them in profound yet unknowable ways. Like us, Judith Hermann's characters have no defence against these intense and unpredictable encounters. They occur at random, without cause or provocation, and unfold beneath the threshold of comprehension. In Letti Park, Judith Hermann explores this all-important moment, our loneliness and rage and longing.
Stella is married, she has a child and a fulfilling job. She lives with her young family in a house in the suburbs.Her life is happy and unremarkable, but she is a little lonely-her husband travels a lot for work and so she is often alone in the house with only her daughter for company. One day a stranger appears at her door, a man Stella's never seen before. He says he just wants to talk to her, nothing more. She refuses. The next day he comes again. And then the day after that. He will not leave her in peace. When Stella works out that he lives up the road, and tries to confront him, it makes no difference. This is the beginning of a nightmare that slowly and remorselessly escalates.Where Love Begins is a delicately wrought, deeply sinister novel about how easily the comfortable lives we construct for ourselves can be shattered.
Er tötet mit archaischen Mitteln. Er schickt verschlüsselte Botschaften. Er folgt seiner Überzeugung. Und er hat ein Ziel. Beim Sonnenaufgang über Cormons läuten die Glocken eines Morgens Sturm und die Stadt wird Zeuge einer Steinigung per Fernbedienung. Willkommenes Futter für die Medien, die aufgrund der Grausamkeit rasch auf islamische Dschihadisten schließen. Zumal in der Folge noch mehr achtbare Katholiken sterben müssen. Dass ein Papstbesuch bevorsteht und Ferragosto das Land lahmlegt, erschwert die Ermittlungen für Bruno Vossi und sein Team. Schon bald sieht sich der Commissario in einem undurchsichtigen Netz aus Interessen und Interventionen verstrickt. Was bezweckt der geheimnisvolle Mörder? Und wer zieht die Fäden beim finalen Showdown wirklich?
Divadelní adaptace slavného ruského románu. Česká premiéra 27. dubna 2012 v divadle Reduta.