Someday We''ll Tell Each Other Everything

Daniela Krien was born in 1975 in what was then East Germany and lives in Leipzig, where she is an editor and scriptwriter for Amadelio Film. Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything is her first novel.

About the author

Daniela Krien was born in 1975 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, then in the G.D.R. Her first novel, Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything, was published in English in 2013 (MacLehose Press) and in fourteen other languages. For a subsequent volume of short stories, Muldental, she was awarded the Nicolaus Born Prize. Love in Five Acts has been sold for translation into twenty languages. She lives in Leipzig with her two daughters.

Summary

It is summer 1990, only months after the border dividing Germany has dissolved. Maria, nearly seventeen, moves in with her boyfriend on his family farm.

A chance encounter with enigmatic loner Henner, a neighbouring farmer, quickly develops into a passionate relationship. But Maria soon finds that Henner can be as brutal as he is tender - his love reveals itself through both animal violence and unexpected sensitivity. Maria builds a fantasy of their future life together, but her expectations differ dramatically from those of Henner himself, until it seems their story can only end in tragedy.

Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything is a bold and impressive debut in which love and violence, conflict and longing, are inextricably entwined.

Report

'A candid tale of raw passion, whose essence and timelessness shines through the spare prose' Süddeutsche Zeitung. Süddeutsche Zeitung

Product details

• Authors: Daniela Krien, Krien Daniela
• Assisted by: Jamie Bulloch (Translation), Bulloch Jamie (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.06.2014
• EAN: 9781782062417
• ISBN: 978-1-78206-241-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Series: MacLehose Press
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, Germany, TRAVEL / Europe / Germany, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, East Germany, Ddr