In English
National Book Award 2020 · Finalist
High as the Waters Rise
Wie hoch die Wasser steigen
Anja Kampmann · 35 when first published
Novel · 320 pages
Translated by Anne Posten
AI-generated summary:A worker on an offshore oil rig loses his only friend one stormy night, takes the dead man's belongings to his family in Hungary and then drifts north across Europe towards the Ruhr he once called home.