Katja Oskamp

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• Marzahn, mon amour

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  Warwick Prize 2022 · Shortlist

  Marzahn, Mon Amour

  Marzahn, mon amour

  Katja Oskamp · 49 when first published

  Short stories · 144 pages · Autofiction

  Translated by Jo Heinrich

  AIAI-generated summary:In her mid-forties, with her child grown, her husband ill and her writing a source of disappointment, a novelist retrains as a chiropodist in Berlin-Marzahn, once East Germany's largest prefab housing estate, and writes down what her clients tell her.