Swallow Summer

Fisrt published in the German language as Schwalbensommer, 2003.

About the author

Larissa Boehning was born in 1971, lives in Berlin and works as a graphic designer, lecturer and freelance writer. Larissa's short story from this collection, Silent Fish, Sweetheart, won the 2002 Prenzlauer Berg Literature Prize. Her debut novel Lichte Stoffe, Light Materials (Eichborn, 2007) was longlisted for the German Book Prize and received the city of Pinneberg's Culture Prize and the Mara Cassens Prize for best debut novel in 2007. Her novels since include Das Glück der Zikaden, The Song of the Cicadas (Galiani, 2011), and most recently Nichts davon stimmt, aber alles ist wehr, None of it's Right, but it's All True (Galiani, 2014).

Summary

The debut collection from German author Larissa Boehning, translated into English by Lyn Marven.

Product details

• Authors: Larissa Boehning
• Assisted by: Lyn Marven (Translation)
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9781905583447
• ISBN: 978-1-905583-44-7
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 167 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature