You're Not Dying

Kathrin Schmidt · 2009 CE · Novel · German · Contemporary

A woman wakes in hospital after a brain haemorrhage without language or memory, and slowly reassembles her marriage, her children and the East German past from fragments. The novel draws on the author's own stroke. It won the German Book Prize in 2009.

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