We'd Have Told Each Other Everything

Translated by Katy Derbyshire

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Winner of the Wilhelm Raabe Prize in 2023On a dark night in Berlin’s Kastanienallee, acclaimed writer Judith Hermann runs into her psychoanalyst — a chance encounter that begins an exploration of the fluid boundaries between truth and invention, memoir and fiction. Through three interconnected essays — in prose, precise yet dreamlike — Judith Hermann captures those moments when reality shifts: a friendship that unravels, salt-bright summers on the North Sea, an unconventional childhood, and the weight of familial trauma. Part literary meditation, part memoir, part novel, this work explores the delicate art of transforming life into literature, challenging our deepest and sometimes darkest assumptions about memory, identity, and the stories we tell ourselves.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-04-10
Mått129 x 198 x 19 mm
Vikt198 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor192
FörlagThe Mercier Press
ISBN9781781178119
ÖversättareDerbyshire, Katy
UtmärkelserWinner of Wilhelm Raabe Prize 2023 (Germany)

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Judith Hermann was born in Berlin in 1970. Her debut Summer House, Later (1998) was extraordinarily well received. She followed up in 2003 with the short stories Nothing But Ghosts, some of which were dramatised for cinema in 2007. Her internationally celebrated collection Alice came out in 2009. Judith Hermann published her first novel, Where Love Begins, in 2014, followed by Letti Park in 2016, which was awarded the Danish Blixen Prize for short stories. Her 2021 novel Daheim was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. Judith Hermann has won numerous awards for her work, including the Kleist Prize and the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. Her most recent book, We’d Have Told Each Other Everything, was awarded the Wilhelm Raabe Prize in 2023. She lives and writes in Berlin.

'Katy Derbyshire’s translation is elegant and polished . . . Children are born and grow up, careers established and abandoned, love affairs, marriages and friendships made and dismantled. Contemporaries sicken and die, parents get old. The past seems stickier in one’s fifties and the reckonings loom large . . . Her “beautifully sad, tough life” endures in this luminous dialogue of self and soul.'