Parole Text:Buch

The factory worker Anna is worshiped as a psychic, and Johanna Schellmann is a writer. In the sanitarium Beelitz-Heilstätten, the two dissimilar women establish a connection from which both seem to benefit, until the fight for recognition and advancement makes them into rivals.

The sublime, crystalline style of Ulla Lenze’s prose is manifest in this novel about the seductive power of self-redemption. It portrays three different women’s life-stories and their fight for liberation and advancement spanning the period between the German Empire and the present.