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...
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...