By the writer of the Spiegel bestseller Love in Case of Emergency: 3 weeks at # 1 with over 300’000 copies sold.

Bestselling author Daniela Krien’s short story collection, including a previously unpublished story and a foreword by the writer.

A country collapsed – what happens to the people who once lived there?

Every radical change has its victims, even a peaceful revolution. Daniela Krien bears witness to the fate of a generation by telling stories of people whose lives lost their equilibrium at a historical turning point. She writes about deep despair and loss of orientation. Yet these miniature novels go beyond individual fates; they sketch out a portrait of the people of today.

A book about keeping one’s head above water despite it all, about going on despite it all, about surviving and coping.

She had everything, and she lost everything. Following the death of her 17-year-old daughter Sonja and a cancer diagnosis, Linda leaves behind everything that had previously defined her: her work at a Leipzig art foundation; her husband Richard; her family and friends. Feeling distraught and vulnerable, she flees to an old farmhouse in the Saxon countryside.
And it ends up being another woman’s daughter who brings her back to life from the brink of the abyss.

Rahel and Peter have been married for almost 30 years. They have settled into their lives, appreciate and respect each other, and have raised two children.
Quietly and imperceptibly at first, then with a loud bang, the love has taken its leave from their marriage. They embark on a summer vacation, intended to salvage what still remains between them, and to answer the question of how and with whom they want to spend their later years.

Daniela Krien’s debut Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything has been translated into 15 languages and is being made into a film by director Emily Atef.

The new book by the award-winning (›Nicolas Born Debut Prize‹) outstanding writer is a touching and moving novel about five women, five lives, five fates.

Their names are Paula, Judith, Brida, Malika, and Jorinde. They know each other because fate or kinship holds them together. They are as different as they could be and yet their search for happiness unites them. But happiness is fleeting, turns sour and becomes pain, which the five women stand up against with all their might.