Judith Hermann Books

When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, Herman?s volume has changed the way we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims. In a new afterword, Herman chronicles the incredible response the book has elicited and explains how the issues surrounding the topic have shifted within the clinical community and the culture at large.Trauma and Recovery brings a new level of understanding to a set of problems usually considered individually. Herman draws on her own cutting-edge research in domestic violence as well as on the vast literature of combat veterans and victims of political terror, to show the parallels between private terrors such as rape and public traumas such as terrorism. The book puts individual experience in a broader political frame, arguing that psychological trauma can be understood only in a social context. Meticulously documented and frequently using the victims? own words as well as those from classic literary works and prison diaries, Trauma and Recovery is a powerful work that will continue to profoundly impact our thinking.

Take 100 people, 50 rolls of color film and a typical day in the separate lives of two pen-pals, and the result is 1,800 frames of double-exposed film and this book, from the editors of Shift magazine. Like the 80's "Day in the Life Of . . . " series - through a kaleidoscope. 7 x 9 inches, 320 color reproductions.

The brilliant second collection of stories from Germany's answer to Zadie Smith. Judith Hermann's first collection, `The Summer House, Later', sold 250,000 hardbacks in Germany, and was shortlisted for both the IMPAC award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

In nine luminous stories of love and loss, loneliness and hope, Judith Hermann's stunning debut collection paints a vivid and poignant picture of a generation ready and anxious to turn their back on the past, to risk uncertainty in search of a fresh, if fragile, equilibrium. An international bestseller and translated into twelve languages, Summerhouse, Later heralds the arrival of one of Germanys most arresting new literary talents. A restless man hopes to find permanence in the purchase of a summerhouse outside Berlin. A young girl, trapped in a paralyzing web of family stories and secrets, finally manages to break free. A granddaughter struggles to lay her grandmother's ghosts to rest. A successful and simplistic artist becomes inexplicably obsessed with an elusive and strangely sinister young girl. Against the backdrop of contemporary Berlin, possibly Europe's most vibrant and exhilarating city, Hermann's characters are as kaleidoscopic and extraordinary as their metropolis, united mostly in a furious and dogged pursuit of the elusive specter of "living in the moment." They're people who, in one way or another, constantly challenge the madness of the modern world and whose dreams of transcending the ordinary for that "narrow strip of sky over the rooftops" are deeply felt and perfectly rendered.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION Judith Hermann's masterly new stories reveal the inconceivable drama of what happens when we meet someone? In the stories of Letti Park , strangers wander into ordinary lives and change them in profound yet unknowable ways. Like us, Judith Hermann's characters have no defence against these intense and unpredictable encounters. They occur at random, without cause or provocation, and unfold beneath the threshold of comprehension. In Letti Park, Judith Hermann explores this all-important moment, our loneliness and rage and longing.

When someone very close to you dies your whole life changes. Everything is different. This title tells of days of transition, of waiting, of holding on and letting go and of how clear and dazzling such days can sometimes be.

Stella is married, she has a child and a fulfilling job. She lives with her young family in a house in the suburbs.Her life is happy and unremarkable, but she is a little lonely-her husband travels a lot for work and so she is often alone in the house with only her daughter for company. One day a stranger appears at her door, a man Stella's never seen before. He says he just wants to talk to her, nothing more. She refuses. The next day he comes again. And then the day after that. He will not leave her in peace. When Stella works out that he lives up the road, and tries to confront him, it makes no difference. This is the beginning of a nightmare that slowly and remorselessly escalates.Where Love Begins is a delicately wrought, deeply sinister novel about how easily the comfortable lives we construct for ourselves can be shattered.

»Judith Hermanns Bücher sind unbeirrbare Erkundungen der menschlichen Verhältnisse.« Roman Bucheli, Neue Zürcher Zeitung Eine Kindheit in unkonventionellen Verhältnissen, das geteilte Berlin, Familienbande und Wahlverwandtschaften, lange, glückliche Sommer am Meer. Judith Hermann spricht über ihr Schreiben und ihr Leben, über das, was Schreiben und Leben zusammenhält und miteinander verbindet. Wahrheit, Erfindung und Geheimnis – Wo beginnt eine Geschichte und wo hört sie auf? Wie verlässlich ist unsere Erinnerung, wie nah sind unsere Träume an der Wirklichkeit. Wie in ihren Romanen und Erzählungen fängt Judith Hermann ein ganzes Lebensgefühl ein: Mit klarer poetischer Stimme erzählt sie von der empfindsamen Mitte des Lebens, von Freundschaft, Aufbruch und Freiheit.