Stories of transition
On coming to terms with life - just as it is
"There is always a way out into a rescue, there is always a transition into a previously unseen, unimaginable solution."
In the early 1980s, a woman strolls through East Berlin after work because she doesn't want to be the first one home. In Moscow, a writer is supposed to portray the prima ballerina Ulanova, waits days for a meeting and then experiences something unexpected. A child breathes in for the first time, a grandmother breathes out for the last time. And a woman in her middle years tries to come to terms with a cancer diagnosis. These stories tell of longing and wanderlust, of dictatorship and inner freedom, of being human and remaining human. Only Helga Schubert can get to the bottom of life so unerringly, so laconically.
Reading with book sale and signing afterwards
"Helga Schubert is a confident author." Melanie Mühl, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
"Light doesn't mean lightweight; you can feel that the next morning when Helga Schubert's sentences resonate." Claudia Ingenhoven, hr2
"The result of a long, unyielding life. Touching and unmistakable." Klara Obermüller, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
