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We Would Have Told Each Other Everything

Judith Hermann author Katy Derbyshire translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Granta Publications Ltd

Publishing:10th Apr '25

£12.99

This title is due to be published on 10th April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

We Would Have Told Each Other Everything cover

The first title in the Granta Magazine Editions series: a work of subtle, perceptive autofiction from one of the most highly regarded writers working in Germany today.

When Judith Hermann runs into her psychoanalyst in the middle of the night on Berlin's Kastanienallee, it sparks an exploration of the moments and memories that have made a life: an intense friendship with another young mother; an unconventional childhood with long summers spent on the German coast; and the ties of familial trauma that echo through generations. In three interconnected essays at once confessional and lyrical, Judith Hermann explores the life and tasks of the writer when memory is no longer reliable and dreams intrude on reality.

In this book [Hermann] makes it admirably clear how confidently she can transform even the difficult, the barely bearable, the deadly dark into great literature * Der Spiegel *
Judith Hermann's books offer unflinching explorations of human relationships * Neue Zurcher Zeitung *
With Judith Hermann you want to read every line, you don't want to miss anything * Deutschlandfunk *
This book . . . has incredible energy and beauty and brutality and radiance. On every page you feel ruthlessness and honesty and the necessity of the text * Die Zeit *

ISBN: 9781738536207

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

208 pages