The Summer House, Later

Informationen zum Autor Judith Hermann was born in Berlin in 1970. She has published two collections of short stories. Klappentext Coral bracelets 'as red as rage' from Russian lovers; a sad old woman who nonetheless 'sometimes sang and winked with her left eye and laughed till the tears came'; country houses 'away from Berlin, linden trees out front, chestnuts in the back, sky above'. The Summer House, Later is an elegant, measured, reflective collection of stories which captures beautifully the promise of bright colours lying just out of reach of our grey daily routines. "Exquisite, powerful...often spellbinding." SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY Tales of impressive quality and formidable originality...The feel throughout is of considerable narrative energy controlled by a cool, calming intelligence." SUNDAY TIMES An imaginative world of luminous clarity...The Summer House, Later is a work of vision, authority and humaneness - something to be savoured." TLS "Many writers have attempted to write about the essential moments of life in which everything happens, yet few have achieved the terrifying, numbing accuracy of Judith Hermann." IRISH TIMES Zusammenfassung The bestselling voice of Europe’s fastest-growing, fastest-living city: the new Berlin.

Product details

• Authors: Judith Hermann, Hermann Judith
• Assisted by: Margot Bettauer Dembo (Translation), Bettauer Dembo Margot (Translation), Margot Dembo (Translation)
• Publisher: Flamingo
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.06.2002
• EAN: 9780007115761
• ISBN: 978-0-00-711576-1
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Romance / Contemporary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Germany, Short Stories, FICTION / Satire, Fiction in translation, Cheshire, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, FICTION / Urban & Street Lit, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary