The Time of the Cicadas
Published by Diogenes as Die Zeit der Zikaden
Original Title: Die Zeit der Zikaden

Retirement is finally here for Alex. But instead of kicking back, she plans to venture into the unknown: in a tiny house on wheels, she plans to leave everything she knows behind her.
Johann, in his mid-fifties, is searching for an escape from a job that now feels questionable and a marriage that’s grown cold – and an inherited stone house in Liguria seems a good place to do it.
Alex accepts Johann’s invitation: two not-so-young and very different individuals start the next chapter of their lives in this place of longing.

Contemporary Literature
304 pages
2024

978-3-257-07274-7
Moritz
Heger

Moritz Heger, born in Stuttgart in 1971, studied German, Protestant Theology and Theatre Studies in Mainz. He received the ›MDR Literature Prize‹ and its associated ›Audience Prize‹ in 2007. Alongside being an author, he is also a teacher at a Stuttgart high school. From the Depth of the Lake (2021) is his debut with Diogenes, and his second novel following In the Snow (2008).

Photo: Maurice Haas / © Diogenes Verlag

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Jörg Magenau
Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Cologne

»That is what this gentle, thoughtful, careful, and finely wrought novel is all about. It impressed me a lot.«