- Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2022 · Shortlist · for the translation by Jo Heinrich
Marzahn, Mon Amour
Marzahn, mon amour
Katja Oskamp (born 1970)
Translated by Jo Heinrich
English editions
In EnglishMarzahn, Mon Amour
Peirene Press · United Kingdom · 15 February 2022 · Paperback · 144 pages
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At around forty-five, the narrator's life feels empty: her child has moved out, her husband is unwell and her career as a writer has gone nowhere. She takes a step many would see as a defeat and trains to look after people's feet, opening for business in Marzahn, the vast concrete estate on the eastern edge of Berlin built in GDR times. From her chair she listens and notes down her customers' lives: a man who moved in when the blocks were new, a woman slowly withdrawing from the world, a one-time party official in a flat cap.
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About the book
- Form
- Short stories
- Length
- 142 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany
- First published
- 2019 by Hanser Berlin
- Author's age
- 49 when first published
- ISBN
9783446264144 (original)
9781908670694 (Peirene Press, United Kingdom)
- More
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