Eine idyllische Kindheit in der Lausitz am Vorabend des ersten Weltkriegs, das Berlin der goldenen Zwanziger, die große Liebe: So könnte das Glück klingen, denkt Helene. Aber steht ihr die Welt wirklich offen? Helene glaubt unerschütterlich...
Julia Franck's German-Book-Prize-winning novel, The Blindness of the Heart, was an international phenomenon, selling 850,000 copies in Germany alone and being published in thirty-five countries. Her newest work, Back to Back echoes the themes of The...
Amid the chaos of civilians fleeing West in a provincial German railway station in 1945 Helene has brought her seven-year-old son. Having survived with him through the horrors and deprivations of the war years, she abandons him on the station...