The Week Thereafter / The First Week without Him – A Book of Hours and Hope
»I’m living in another world now.«
What happens when the person you have loved for over sixty years and have cared for for over a decade passes away? In her unmistakable, crystal-clear prose, Helga Schubert describes her own state of mind in the early days, the first week, after her husband’s death. She sees herself caught between grief and release.
If you have to, you can start over, even when you’re almost 90 – a book about love, death and a new beginning.
- Bestselling author Helga Schubert explores grief and loneliness, release and freedom in her heartening, pithy prose
- »Helga Schubert is an inspirational author« – Melanie Mühl, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- For readers of Joan Didion’s ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ and Siri Hustvedt’s ‘Ghost Stories’
Helga Schubert, born in 1940 in Berlin, was a psychotherapist and writer in the GDR. She had withdrawn from public literary life until she won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2020 with her story ‘On Getting Up’. The eponymous volume of short stories was published by dtv in 2021 and was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. ‘This Day. A Book of Hours on Love’ was published in 2023, and in 2024, Helga Schubert was awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit.
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