"Throw a Shadow"

Description

Elena Fischer's reading was nominated in 2023 for the debut prize at the Harbour Front Literature Festival with "Paradise Garden." Now she returns to Hamburg with her second novel "Throw a Shadow"! Joseph lives alone on the farm. His wife has left him and moved to the city with their son. The silence they left behind is not new to him; it has always been there. What Joseph has not learned: to talk about fear, about war, about love. Just as he begins to accept death as the best way out, there is a knock at the door.
Birdie is twenty, exhausted, and fleeing from her family. While she recovers on the farm and begins to tell about her beloved and her dreams, Joseph confronts truths he has run from all his life. Elena Fischer's new novel is set in the 1960s countryside and delicately tells how people save each other without knowing it. "Elena Fischer writes with great linguistic power about the fragility of human relationships." Jury of the Aspekte Literature Prize Elena Fischer, born in 1987, studied comparative literature and film studies in Mainz, where she lives with her family. "Paradise Garden" was nominated in 2023 for the German Book Prize and the debut prize at the Harbour Front Literature Festival and has already been translated into 15 languages.

Highlights

• Reading by Elena Fischer
• Second novel "Throw a Shadow"
• Return to Hamburg after debut nomination

General Information

Elena Fischer presents her new novel "Throw a Shadow" in Hamburg. The reading addresses the challenges of human relationships and the search for truth in a quiet, rural setting of the 1960s.

Location

Pinnasberg 80, 20359 Hamburg, Germany

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