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Sandra Hoffmann’s »Paula« is a moving piece of autofiction about the writer’s relationship to her grandmother, a devout Swabian Catholic who refused to reveal who fathered her child in 1946. Growing up in a family where silence reigns, Hoffmann asks: What kind of person, what kind of writer, does this environment produce?

 

»Sandra Hoffmann is one of Germany’s most exciting contemporary writers. [...] An incredibly dense, finely woven text that immediately grabs you and pulls you mercilessly in.«

Brigitte Woman

»[Hoffmann] creates a biography that goes beyond the individual destiny of the cleaning lady Paula. [...] A clever and touching book of memories.«

Deutschlandfunk Kultur

»Paula is a touching piece of contemporary history, in which the writer artfully links reality and fiction and sketches a cautious portrait of a woman who had to deal with repeated blows of fate during World War II and the post-war era.«

Hans Fallada Prize 2017

»Hoffmann’s novel is a book of memories that faces up to the writer’s own history and family. Sandra Hoffmann does so by turns gently, touchingly, drastically; but always truthfully. Her writing is marked out by clarity and intense density. There is always a brightness shining into her work, a brightness aware of the dark.«

Deutschlandfunk

»Sandra Hoffmann’s new book Paula revolves undisguisedly around her own childhood, her difficult grandmother. Despite its introspection, we also find out plenty about our own society, about war and trauma.«

Süddeutsche Zeitung

»Sandra Hoffmann approaches what nobody speaks about. The scraps of memory, tiny imaginings that form a leifmotif in the book. […] The narrator refuses to sugar-coat a thing. That too makes this small book a big reading experience.«

SWR2

»All of this is narrated on different time levels, densely atmospheric, skilfully interweaving past and present, and the writer needs only 158 pages to tell the essence of her story. [..] Despite the brevity, the narrator creates a vivid picture of a generation and an era.«

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Lucy Fricke Sinéad Crowe (Translator)

V&Q Books Title Lucy Fricke’s »Daughters« tells the story of two women, pushing forty, on a road trip across Europe, each of them dealing with difficult fathers along the way. A bestseller and booksellers’ favourite in Germany, »Daughters« evokes laughter and tears by way of life and death, friendship and family.

  • Daughters
    book 15.00 EUR
    Novel
    Paperback
    208 pages
    15. September 2020
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  • Daughters
    ebook 6.49 EUR
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    2,3 MB
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Francis Nenik Katy Derbyshire (Translator)

V&Q Books Title Francis Nenik’s thrilling slice of narrative non-fiction »Journey through a Tragicomic Century« is about the life of the forgotten writer Hasso Grabner, told with great joy in language and love of absurdity. The journey takes us from the Young Communists in 1920s Leipzig to wartime Crete, with Grabner falling from steelworks director

  • Journey through a Tragicomic Century
    book 15.00 EUR
    Narrative non-fiction
    Paperback
    192 pages
    15. September 2020
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  • Journey through a Tragicomic Century
    ebook 6.49 EUR
    ePub
    474,7 kB
    15. September 2020
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