Summer of Farewell
It all happened one summer, fourteen years after the war
Flensburg, 1959: Gustav spends his summer holidays on a campsite at the Baltic Sea. He can’t get his mind off Johanna, the daughter of a corsetière originally from East Prussia. If only he hadn’t slapped her out of jealousy ... He feels guilty, but what does guilt mean for him? His art teacher is the painter Gerhard Fritz Hensel, whose sister Hedwig was married to Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höß, though nobody knows about it. In everyday life, tales of people escaping from East Prussia and Silesia are more common – and popular – than stories about the Third Reich. More and more, Gustav gets to the bottom of abominable things, both great and small.
»Jochen Missfeldt knows every shade a story can take and how to make each one shine.« – Ulrich Rüdenauer, Literaturen
- Jochen Missfeldt’s most autobiographical novel yet shines a light on universal questions of memory, identity and heritage
- For readers of Per Petterson, Kent Haruf and Annie Proulx
Jochen Missfeldt
Jochen Missfeldt, born in 1941 in Northern Germany, was an aviation officer for the German Air Force and went on to study Musicology and Philosophy. He has published several novels, short stories and poems as well as a biography about Theodor Storm. Jochen Missfeldt has won a number of literary awards and lives in North Frisia.
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