Hey, Good Morning, How Are You?

Martina Hefter author Linda Gaus translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Publishing:18th Feb '27

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Hey, Good Morning, How Are You? cover

The internationally bestselling winner of the German Book Prize 2024: a woman finds solace in her interactions with internet scammers in this electric and moving novel about communication and isolation, needs and desires, and how far we are prepared to go for love

*** Recommended reading for Women in Translation Month ***

THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING WINNER OF THE GERMAN BOOK PRIZE

‘It thrums with energy and excitement . . . A brilliant novel’ Grace Murray, author of Blank Canvas

Juno Isabella Flock is a dancer and performance artist. By day, she cares for her ailing husband Jupiter, who cannot manage daily life without her. But by night, unable to sleep, she chats online with love scammers: men who confess their love to women on the internet, and then ply them for money. Juno, however, will not fall for their scams.

These conversations offer Juno a heady freedom to be who she wants to be, free from the stresses of her real life: always busy and on the go, always concerned about Jupiter. Instead, she plays games with these men who are lying to her, and starts to tell lies of her own. But then she meets Benu, and an immediate connection forms, despite the distance between them. Just as Juno sees through Benu’s lies, he sees clearly through hers too.

Hey, Good Morning, How Are You? is a profound and moving novel about needs and longing, about truth and connection, and about how far we are willing to go for love.

‘A triumph of sharp wit and profound humanity . . . A divine masterpiece’ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

TRANSLATED BY LINDA L. GAUS

A book like a tightrope walk without a net: a sheer drop to the left, a sheer drop to the right, you want to look away but you can’t and you don’t need to, because as long as Martina Hefter is telling this story, as long as her thoughts are so luminous and life and desire are so in- tense, nothing can happen * Anne Weber, winner of the German Book Prize 2020 *
A triumph of sharp wit and profound humanity [...] A divine master- piece * FAZ - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung *
Navigating between melancholy and euphoria, and reflecting on trust and deception, the novel combines gruelling everyday life with mythological figures and cosmic dimensions in a fascinating way. Martina Hefter writes about all this in her intelligently choreographed novel, which exerts an attraction of its very own * German Book Prize Jury 2024 *
A book that weaves atmospheric nuances into haunting images of tragedy and bliss, never slipping into sentimentality * NZZ *
Deserves to be a bestseller * Die Zeit *
Every line is ready to tear down the austere fac¸ade of society * Dinçer Güçyeter, winner of the 2023 Leipzig Book Fair Prize *
My book of the year. So sad and yet so funny, so elegant and tender [...] about illness and old age and loneliness and the internet and the beauty of fiction. There hasn't been a more worthy winner of the German Book Prize in a long time. * Daniel Kehlmann, author of Measuring the World *
A humorous yet profound prism of privileges, caring for seriously ill dependents, and the precariousness facing freelance artists * Spiegel Kultur *
The novel's great strength is its lightness. Hefter evokes the disparate everyday interplay of physical decline and romantic longing so entertainingly and elegantly that every detail begins to sparkle through her narrative art * Simone Unger, mdr *
An exceptional novel that is both profound and nimble * Nürnberger Zeitung *

ISBN: 9781405980364

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 17mm

Weight: 186g

256 pages