{"product_id":"we-would-have-told-each-other-everything-9780374619510","title":"We Would Have Told Each Other Everything","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wise and subtle work that explores the refractive power of memory, and what it means to exist in the lives of others-from one of the most highly regarded writers working in Germany today. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Judith Hermann runs into her psychoanalyst in the middle of the night on Berlin's Kastanienallee, the meeting sparks an exploration of the moments and memories that have made a life: an intense friendship with another young mother; an unconventional childhood with long summers spent on the German coast; and the ties of familial trauma that echo through generations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn three interconnected sections at once confessional and lyrical, \u003ci\u003eWe Would Have Told Each Other Everything\u003c\/i\u003e explores how the life and work of the writer converge and depart from each other when memory is no longer reliable and dreams intrude on reality.\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 shortlisted 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 (\u003ci\u003eHome\u003c\/i\u003e) 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\u003eKaty Derbyshire\u003c\/b\u003e is the translator of contemporary German writers including Inka Parei, Heike Geissler, Olga Grjasnowa, Annett Gröschner, and Christa Wolf. Her translation of Clemens Meyer's \u003ci\u003eBricks and Mortar\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2018 Straelen Prize for Translation. She is the cohost of a monthly translation lab and the bimonthly Dead Ladies Show.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fsg Originals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51864354980114,"sku":"9780374619510","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_aa9184b6-7b97-4c59-af3b-1d71392b15e3.jpg?v=1767786801","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/we-would-have-told-each-other-everything-9780374619510","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}