Originally published in 2011, under title: Manchmal luge ich und manchmal nicht.
Contents:
How we forgive. Death and Ophelia -- How it is -- It's about crocodiles, stones and diving, says Hannes -- Hunger -- Ginger light -- A sliver of moon -- Dust motes in the air -- C.'s smile -- I don't know -- Someplace else -- Auntie Anna and Selma and Selma and -- Before Max came -- Pine shoots and fish cans -- Nighthawks -- Flickering lights -- Fatherland -- Lisa and Elias and me -- What Björn did not imagine -- How we forgive.
Summary:
Love, injury, deception, uncertainty, and self-sacrifice: debut author Nadja Spiegel is hardly the first person to write about these things, but the way she has written about them is incomparable. Constructing virtuoso depictions of life in a style that lets them get right under your skin, Spiegel's precise, brittle, seemingly straightforward prose paints a vibrant picture of human compromise and cooperation with both humor and restraint. Bittersweet, made up of just a few simple strokes, these stories herald the arrival of an important new voice in European literature. -- Provided by publisher
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