It's the kind of love that sweeps Maria off her feet – and into the arms of a man who’s more than twice her age and hiding a dark secret. In the stifling hot summer of 1990, as world history holds its breath, a country stands on the brink of radical upheaval and the atmosphere fizzes with possibility, a young girl becomes a woman and a lover. 
What happens next shakes everything to its core – inside and out – and the two lovers’ fatal entanglement comes to a brutal end. 

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.

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Bestselling author Daniela Krien’s short story collection, including a previously unpublished story and a foreword by the writer.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