“A painful but necessary look at remembering and forgetting across generations.”- Frankfurter Rundschau
“Judith Hermann's books are unflinching explorations of human conditions." — Neue Zürcher Zeitung on "Home"
“A master storyteller.” — The Independent on "London on Summerhouse, Later"
“In the ‘Nobel Prize League’” — Frankfurter Rundschau on "We'd Have Told Each Other Everything"
Judith Hermann traces the footsteps of her grandfather, who was stationed in the Polish city of Radom during the Second World War as a member of the SS. She weaves her own writing together with his long-denied past, traveling on from Poland to Naples to visit her sister, and reflecting on how memory and forgetting shape the generations that follow.
Through subtle shifts and quiet undertones, Hermann senses what has been repressed—the silences and gaps within our society. With prose that is both magnetic and quietly magical, she tells of the fragility with which we arrange our lives, while revealing the unexpected beauty that can be found within it.