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“We Were Never in the Sea” (title translated by AI)
Meral Kureyshi (born 1983)
English editions
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Lili moves into an old people's home to be at the side of her husband, who needs care. Her family looks for someone to visit her regularly and help her day to day. I am that someone, says the narrator. She lives in the same house as Lili's granddaughter Sophie, and together they are raising Sophie's eight-year-old son Eric. But she has found a job in a distant city and hesitates to tell them she will soon move away. She looks after clever, know-it-all Eric and ever-complaining Lili, chats with a waiter who, like her, comes from elsewhere, and struggles with her fading friendship with Sophie and the dreariness of the home.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 213 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Migration (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Switzerland
- First published
- 2025 by Limmat Verlag
- Author's age
- 42 when first published
- ISBN
9783039260850 (original)