При входа на морето

Anastasia arrives with her daughter Ana at a sanatorium by the sea, among cliffs, cormorants and a boat anchored in its own shadow, where the strange patients have no illness anyone has managed to find. What brought her there is never explained; her right hand is bandaged and she cannot write. Over five weeks, told day by day through her stream of consciousness, she watches and listens, protests that she hates waiting, objects that her diagnosis was written down wrongly, and is slowly drawn out of her solitude into the company of the other patients, who wait dinner after dinner for an elusive doctor who never comes. Starting from her suffering, melancholy and sadness, the story leads her towards cleansing, insight and a renewed bond with the Other, with Someone who is always missing.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

338 pages in the original

First published

2014 by Obsidian

Author's age

56 when first published

ISBN

9789547693487 (original)