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In rural Transylvania, a young wife fearing for her unborn child takes a cart ride through all-enveloping snow. That child, Samuel, grows up under the brutal Ceausescu regime in Romania, where language masks truth and even minor acts have repercussions.
What happens when one leaves, but others must stay behind?
Born behind the iron curtain in the medieval town of Sibiu, Transylvania, Iris Wolff emigrated as a child and now lives in Germany. Her original and captivating fiction explores the lost world of her childhood in a region that for centuries was a melting pot of ethnicities and languages. She has won over 20 awards and literary prizes.