Книга - The Summer House, Later

The Summer House, Later
Judith Hermann

Margot Bettauer Dembo


The bestselling voice of Europe’s fastest-growing, fastest-living city: the new Berlin.‘The little jewellery box also held the red coral bracelet from Nikolai Sergeyevich. Its six hundred and seventy-five little coral beads were strung onto a silken thread, and they glowed as red as rage. My great-grandmother put the hairbrush down in her lap. She closed her eyes for a long time. Then she opened her eyes again, took the red coral bracelet from the little box and fastened it around her left wrist. Her skin was very white. That evening, for the first time in three years, she shared a meal with my great-grandfather.’Coral bracelets ‘as red as rage’ from Russian lovers; a sad old woman who nonetheless ‘sometimes sang and winked with her left eye and laughed till the tears came’; country houses ‘away from Berlin, linden trees out front, chestnuts in the back, sky above’: ‘The Summer House, Later’ is an elegant, measured, reflective collection of stories which captures beautifully the promise of bright colours lying just out of reach of our grey daily routines.Set in and around Europe’s fastest-growing, fastest-living city, these stories take as their starting point the monotony of modern urban life – the endless antennas and chimneys, the pigeons in the gutters – and looks beyond them to ‘the narrow strip of sky over the rooftops’. The literary sensation of the year in her native Germany, Judith Hermann is a wonderfully talented young writer whose ability to find drama and beauty in the smallest, most trivial moments makes ‘The Summer House, Later’ a very special debut indeed.









JUDITH HERMANN

The Summer House, Later


Translated from the German by

Margot Bettauer Dembo









Copyright (#ulink_9802d673-1127-5ecd-8cb4-480489c17567)


These stories are works of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in them are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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First published in Great Britain by Flamingo 2001

First published in German by S. Fischer Verlag as Sommerhaus, Später 1998

Copyright © S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt-am-Main 1998

Copyright in English translation © Margot Bettauer Dembo 2001

Judith Hermann asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

Margot Bettauer Dembo asserts the moral right to be identified as the translator of this work

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Ebook Edition © NOVEMBER 2012 ISBN: 9780007396962

Version: 2016-08-10




Contents


Cover (#u81f4a334-fe29-5c86-8227-6ec13f47063c)

Title Page (#u6b315a9c-7d34-5e06-883c-2bbd0a660c9d)

Copyright (#uc2ba8b90-8c4e-5325-826a-6c2ab56b7b21)

Dedication (#u65924d89-6903-5d04-bfb6-6ed82fca3e32)

The Red Coral Bracelet (#u4d3ba086-b62f-5d77-8256-9910fa3b2ddb)

Hurricane (Something Farewell) (#u7b850c0d-5c9e-5f5a-80c1-cf82f8845ff4)

Sonja (#u04a34fcd-149f-56d7-85bf-fec546eae037)

The End of Something (#u0932fc53-a3a7-5305-8f8c-ed3b0a05c5c7)

Bali Woman (#u507cfe72-e41d-5991-b534-80c17bbb5f24)

Hunter Tompson Music (#uc6c7290b-275f-59df-a07c-44d4eb17205c)

The Summer House, Later (#ufa26d0df-c4c4-5586-b7e0-eb7889463ad9)

Camera Obscura (#u7c01c453-462e-5c09-bc67-78f241a07143)

This Side of the Oder (#u53c7fb4a-d503-59b9-b5fd-878514fd6e05)

Keep Reading (#u02c5a103-acb0-5501-bfdb-5226b08ef63f)

Acknowledgements (#u11d3e8a5-6b8e-5fb3-8fe5-c4625fd5b83b)

About the Author (#ufefe6fc5-49e3-5cc6-a88b-7e962fe4b220)

Praise (#u38e678bc-044f-5841-91c0-70e501d8d594)

About the Publisher (#ud4c5ce5f-08fe-5861-bbce-379c75ccfcf3)




Dedication (#ucbaefeac-e18d-5e05-9190-8f32eb35fb2c)


For F.M. and M.M.


The doctor says, I’ll be alright but I’m feeling blue

Tom Waits





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