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“How We Grow Older” (title translated by AI)
Ruth Schweikert (born 1964)
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What time is it? Outside there is snow. Inside, 87-year-old Jacques prepares lunch, as he does every morning, for his wife Friederike, who needs care. For nine years he lived with another woman, then he went back to his old marriage. The lives of the grown-up children and grandchildren also see separations and changes, farewells and new beginnings, driven by a longing for freedom and for reliability at the same time. From changing perspectives, the novel circles the entanglements, secrets, loves and ruptures of two families and three generations, from the Second World War to the present: a family novel about the passing of time and the winding paths of love.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 270 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Love, Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Switzerland
- First published
- 2015 by S. Fischer Verlag
- Author's age
- 51 when first published
- ISBN
9783100022639 (original)