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You're Not Dying
Du stirbst nicht
Kathrin Schmidt (born 1958)
Translated by Christina Les
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You're Not Dying
Naked Eye Publishing · United Kingdom · 2021
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Helene wakes up in hospital after a brain haemorrhage, with no control over her body, no speech and gaps in her memory. Syllable by syllable, sentence by sentence, she searches for her lost language and her lost past, and her way back into life confronts her with a stranger who was herself. Sometimes laconic, sometimes mocking, sometimes eerie, her inner world gives rise to the story of her family, her marriage and an unexpected, unheard-of love, pieced together from fragments of the collapsing GDR and the years after reunification.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 347 pages in the original
- First published
- 2009 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch
- Author's age
- 51 when first published
- ISBN
9783462040982 (original)
9781910981139 (Naked Eye Publishing, United Kingdom)
- More
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