Summerhouse, later : stories
In nine luminous stories of love and loss, loneliness and hope, Judith Hermann's debut collection, an international bestseller and translated into twelve languages, paints a vivid picture of a generation ready and anxious to turn their back on the past, to risk uncertainty in search of a fresh, if fragile, equilibrium. A restless man hopes to find permanence in the purchase of a summerhouse outside Berlin. A young girl, trapped in a paralyzing web of family stories and secrets, finally manages to break free. A granddaughter struggles to lay her grandmother's ghosts to rest. A successful and simplistic artist becomes inexplicably obsessed with an elusive and strangely sinister young girl
Print Book, English, ©2001
1st ed
Ecco, New York, ©2001