The brilliant second collection of stories from Germanys answer to Zadie Smith. Judith Hermanns first collection, The Summer House, Later, sold 250,000 hardbacks in Germany, and was shortlisted for both the IMPAC award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Judith Hermanns first book, The Summer House, Later was described as a book about a certain kind of young woman, trying to get a boyfriend, to get some fun out of life, but with a sense of melancholy and a sense of loneliness that seems to define a generation. Now in Hermanns second collection, Nothing but Ghosts, that generation has moved on, grown up perhaps, and the women have indeed found boyfriends but the relationships, described here with painstaking honesty, are all on the turn in some way and have passed their first flush of romantic love. We join many of these characters just as they have stopped communicating the talking has stopped and the women, with their lives in stasis, have become watchful and disappointed and are starting to turn their gaze elsewhere

Binding: Paperback;274 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 384 g; Dimensions: 215 x 137 x 22

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