Halbe Leben

Klara is dead, fallen while hiking, and the only person with her was Paulína, the Slovak woman she hired as a carer after her mother's stroke. With her mother looked after, Klara could return to her career and her husband enjoy his freedom, while Paulína's own children were cared for by their grandmother in Slovakia. Everything was well organized and simple; everyone liked Paulína and thanked her with generous gifts for her services and extra services. Perhaps they had even become friends. But something went wrong, and on the way to understanding each other the two women crossed boundaries, in a world full of inequality.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

192 pages in the original

Genres

Migration, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Austria, Slovakia

First published

2025 by Paul Zsolnay Verlag

Author's age

44 when first published

ISBN

9783552075238 (original)

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