Sina Scherzant liest "Taumeln"

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"Taumeln" is Sina Scherzant's second novel - her literary debut "Am Tag des Weltuntergangs verschlang der Wolf die Sonne'' was published in 2023 and was shortlisted for the Ruhr Literature Prize.

Where is Hannah? They would love to know. Her family, the whole village. No one has seen her for two years. Her sister has been leading a group of seven people through the forest for almost as long, because Hannah might be there, but she could be anywhere else.

Taumeln delves sensitively, fearlessly and finely observing into the lives of those who do not give up searching. There used to be hundreds of searchers, but now there is only Frank, whose broken heart nobody is allowed to know about, Inge, who drives everyone in the forest while the unpredictable lives in her own home, Amaka, who is trying to shake off a diffuse phantom pain, Emma, Enrico, Christina and Hartmut. And there is the sister, Luisa, who wavers between despair and anger and sadness, who, as the child who is still there, experiences her very own form of loneliness in a family that has collapsed. They all doubt and fathom, they hope and they hide from each other until it is no longer possible, until they have to ask themselves what they are looking for in this forest when the possibility of finding it is so unrealistic.

Staggering poses the essential question of who our compassion is for.

"Like a seismograph, Sina Scherzant traces grief, loss and hope in Taumeln.
The result: tender, wistful, touching."
Marija Latković

"Sina Scherzant courageously and carefully brings together all these lonely people. What an ingenious temporary community."
Daniela Dröscher

Price information:

VVK € 15 / B.O. € 18