'A rare beast: tender realism blended with a brutal, mythic surrealism. I can't stop thinking about this book' Kirsty LoganTHE STORY BEGINS with my great-grandmother, born a farmer's daughter on the first day of the new century in a village on the North Sea.Alma has grown up on her family's stories.The sowing in the spring, the haymaking in summer, the potato harvest in autumn. The day Grandmother heard the planes come, and knew the war had...

A Finalist for the 2025 Austrian Book PrizeFor readers of Nelio Biedermann's *Lázár*and Ottessa Moshfegh's Lapvona, from a dazzling new voice in European literature, this compact, magical realism epic tells the story of a rural farming family living on the edge of the German empire through the eyes of its final descendant.The story begins with my great-grandmother, born a farmer's daughter on the first day of the n...

A Finalist for the 2025 Austrian Book PrizeFor readers of Nelio Biedermann's *Lázár*and Ottessa Moshfegh's Lapvona, from a dazzling new voice in European literature, this compact, magical realism epic tells the story of a rural farming family living on the edge of the German empire through the eyes of its final descendant.The story begins with my great-grandmother, born a farmer's daughter on the first day of the n...