Open and free to all literature friends we discuss the novel 'Widerfahrnis' by Bodo Kirchhoff. Books are available to buy from the library beforehand.
In his novella Widerfahrnis Bodo Kirchhoff tells a story of a double fall: into love, without being able to love enough and into humanity without being good enough.
Leonie Palm, former owner of a hat shop, takes Reither, a retired publisher, spontaneously on a journey through Italy. What unites them is that they are both not prepared to find love anymore. When they finally find happiness, they are followed by a girl who does not speak but is just simply there…
Winner of the German Book Price 2016.
Bodo Kirchhoff, born 1948, is living in Frankfurt am Main and at Lake Garda. After his from both critics and audience equally acclaimed novels »Die Liebe in groben Zügen« (FVA 2012) and »Verlangen und Melancholie« (FVA 2014), Bodo Kirchhoff was honored with the German Book Price for his novella »Widerfahrnis« (FVA 2016), which was translated into several languages.
Source: Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt
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