This House Is Mine

ISBN-13: 9781250100856 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 336 str.

Doerte Hansen

Opis

All her life Vera has felt like a stranger in the old and drafty half-timbered farmhouse she arrived at as a five-year-old refugee from East Prussia in 1945, and yet she can't seem to let it go. Sixty years later, her niece Anne suddenly shows up at her door with her small son. Anne has fled the trendy Hamburg, Germany neighborhood she never fit into after her relationship imploded. Vera and Anne are strangers to each other but have much more in common than they think. As the two strong-willed and very different women share the great old house, they find what they have never thought to search for: a family.Told in skillfully crafted alternating points of view and a nonlinear storyline, Dorte Hansen's internationally bestselling debut novel This House is Mine showcases her impressive talent for characterization and dialogue in an exceptional book that combines emotional depth and humor. The author's sparse language and sometimes oblique references make for a deeply immersive reading experience, and the characters will resonate long after the last page has been turned.

O autorze

Dörte Hansen, geboren 1964 in Husum, lernte in der Grundschule, dass es außer Plattdeutsch noch andere Sprachen auf der Welt gibt. Die Begeisterung darüber führte zum Studium etlicher Sprachen wie Gälisch, Finnisch oder Baskisch und hielt noch an bis zur Promotion in Linguistik. Danach wechselte sie zum Journalismus, war einige Jahre Redakteurin beim NDR und arbeitet heute als Autorin für Hörfunk und Print. Sie lebt in der Nähe von Hamburg.