End in Sight
Fiction, Literary Fiction
“About all the good reasons to die and all the much betterreasons to stay alive.”
At the age of 70, Hella wants to die. In Switzerland, in a hospital. And so she sets depression. out on her journey. Her aging Passat will manage this final trip. But then, just as she gets onto the Autobahn, something heavy plummets onto the hood of her car.
Julie, 16, wanted nothing but to end her life by jumping off the highway bridge. Now she is just slightly injured – and so she climbs into Hella’s car.
Two women who wish to die – but now that they are together, do they still desire what they separately thought was their last option? Deeply sad and elegant, Ronja von Rönne has crafted a laconic tale about two women for whom death seems to be the only way out.
• An unpredictable, dramatic, darkly humorous reading pleasure
• Laughing and crying: only Ronja von Rönne can write about depression as vividly, wryly and touching as this
Ronja von Rönne, born in 1992, is a writer, journalist, and host. In 2015, she read at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize ceremony. Since 2017 she has hosted the 'Streetphilosophy' program on Arte. She writes for the DIE ZEIT and ZEIT Online. Her novel 'End in Sight' ('Ende in Sicht') became a critically acclaimed bestseller.
“About all the good reasons to die and all the much betterreasons to stay alive.”
At the age of 70, Hella wants to die. In Switzerland, in a hospital. And so she sets depression. out on her journey. Her aging Passat will manage this final trip. But then, just as she gets onto the Autobahn, something heavy plummets onto the hood of her car.
Julie, 16, wanted nothing but to end her life by jumping off the highway bridge. Now she is just slightly injured – and so she climbs into Hella’s car.
Two women who wish to die – but now that they are together, do they still desire what they separately thought was their last option? Deeply sad and elegant, Ronja von Rönne has crafted a laconic tale about two women for whom death seems to be the only way out.
• An unpredictable, dramatic, darkly humorous reading pleasure
• Laughing and crying: only Ronja von Rönne can write about depression as vividly, wryly and touching as this