Paula
Sandra Hoffmann author Katy Derbyshire translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:V & Q Books
Published:15th Sep '20
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Winner of the Hans Fallada Prize
Sandra Hoffmann's PAULA is a moving piece of autofiction about the writer's relationship to her grandmother, a devout Swabian Catholic who refused to reveal who fathered her child in 1946. Growing up in a family where silence reigns, Hoffmann asks: What kind of person, what kind of writer, does this environment produce?"Sandra Hoffmann is one of Germany's most exciting contemporary writers. [...] An incredibly dense, finely woven text that immediately grabs you and pulls you mercilessly in." Brigitte Woman. Sandra Hoffmann's "Paula" is a moving piece of autofiction about the writer's relationship to her grandmother, a devout Swabian Catholic who refused to reveal who fathered her child in 1946. Growing up in a family where silence reigns, Hoffmann asks: What kind of person, what kind of writer, does this environment produce?
"'What makes a person?' asks the narrator of Paula, as she sets out on a quest for the woman behind her elusive late grandmother. A memoir written not to reminisce, but to smash the silence that sneaks up on all families 'like a virus': this is autofiction at its most meaningful, tapping into her child's spry imagination to fill in the gaps of wizened adult memory. There is so much clear-headed and effortless wisdom in Paula, and we have Katy Derbyshire to thank for an English text that reads just as clearly and effortlessly." Sophie Hughes, translator of Fernanda Melchor
- Winner of Hans Fallada Prize 2018
ISBN: 9783863912581
Dimensions: 200mm x 136mm x 10mm
Weight: 200g
143 pages