Synopsis
If the dead could speak, what would they say to the living?
From their graves in the field, the oldest part of Paulstadt’s cemetery, the town’s late inhabitants tell stories from their lives. Some recall just a moment, perhaps the one in which they left this world, perhaps the one that they now realize shaped their life for ever. Some...
Details
18 March 2021240 pages
9781529008081Imprint: Picador
Reviews
One of those rare novels that can move you existentially, and change you.SWR
This book about a village’s dead proves that subtle literary quality and bestseller success do not have to be mutually exclusive.Die Zeit
The whole thing is so wonderfully crafted . . . that you literally don't want to stop reading, that you're sad to come to the end . . . What he has mastered like few other authors in German literary history is to give all his characters a profound dignity.Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
