The Taste of Apple Seeds

For Iris, childhood memories are of long, hot summers spent playing with her cousin in their grandmother's enchanted garden. But Iris is now a young woman and her grandmother, after a long battle with dementia, is now dead. When she returns to the small village for her grandmother's funeral, Iris learns that she has not only inherited the old house and garden, she has also inherited her family's darkest secrets...

About the author

Katharina Hagena, geboren 1967 in Karlsruhe, Sie studierte Anglistik und Germanistik in Marburg, London und Freiburg und promovierte über James Joyce. Sie erhielt ein Forschungsstipendium der Zürcher James-Joyce-Stiftung und arbeitete als Lektorin am Trinity College in Dublin. Heute lehrt sie englische Literatur an der Universität Hamburg und schreibt an einem Buch über Türme in der Literatur.

Summary

The bestseller that has captivated readers across Europe, The Taste of Apple Seeds is both an enchanting story of first love and a heartbreaking journey through loss.

Foreword

The bestseller that has captivated readers across Europe, The Taste of Apple Seeds is both an enchanting story of first love and a heartbreaking journey through loss.

Report

This melancholy novel about lifting the layers of history is packed with gorgeous imagery and undertones of buried secrets... Sultry, tragic and intensely atmospheric The Times

Product details

• Authors: Katharina Hagena, Katharina (Author) Hagena, Hagena Katharina
• Assisted by: Jamie Bulloch (Translation), Jamie (Author) Bulloch (Translation), Bulloch Jamie (Translation)
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Original title: Der Geschmack von Apfelkernen
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.01.2014
• EAN: 9780857891006
• ISBN: 978-0-85789-100-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 122 mm x 193 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 194 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, Fiction: general and literary