{"product_id":"nothing-but-ghosts-9781250408228","title":"Nothing But Ghosts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA short-story collection following several women whose respective relationships are all on the turn in some way and have passed their first flush of romantic love.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe brilliant second collection of stories from Germany's answer to Zadie Smith. Judith Hermann's first collection, \u003ci\u003eSummerhouse, Later\u003c\/i\u003e, sold over 250,000 hardcovers in Germany and was short-listed for both the IMPAC award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. In \u003ci\u003eNothing but Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e, she portrays a generation in a new and precarious stage--she describes relationships with painstaking honesty, filling in the silences where communication has begun to falter and the gaze begins to turn elsewhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJudith Hermann\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Berlin in 1970. She is the author of several novels and story collections, including \u003ci\u003eAlice\u003c\/i\u003e, which was short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; \u003ci\u003eWhere Love Begins\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eSummerhouse, Later\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Kleist Prize. Her novel \u003ci\u003eDaheim\u003c\/i\u003e (Home) was a Spiegel bestseller, won the Rheingau and the Bremen Literature Prizes, and was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. Her work has been translated into thirty-five languages, and a number of her short stories have been adapted for film. She lives and works in Berlin. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargot Bettauer Dembo\u003c\/b\u003e (1928-2019) was the translator of works by Judith Hermann, Robert Gernhardt, Joachim Fest, Ödön von Horváth, and Feridun Zaimoglu, among others. She was awarded the Goethe-Institut\/Berlin Translator's Prize in 1994 and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize in 2003. Dembo also worked as a translator for two feature documentary films: \u003ci\u003eThe Restless Conscience\u003c\/i\u003e, which was nominated for an Academy Award, and \u003ci\u003eThe Burning Wall\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52033896579346,"sku":"9781250408228","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3615ea7b-b3b0-46b1-b5e9-5c1bab9dc787.jpg?v=1770977466","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nothing-but-ghosts-9781250408228","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}