Out Here
A white deer, a dark prophecy and a village turned upside down
In Fehrdorf, everybody seems to know where they belong. Only Ingo and Lara, who recently moved from the big city to this small village in the German countryside with their children, are struggling. Especially Ingo finds the commute to his start-up in Hamburg exhausting. When he hits a white deer with his car one evening, it disrupts the balance of the whole village.
- A gripping, warm-hearted and wise debut, the discovery of a new narrative voice
- Martina Behm skilfully weaves together different perspectives into an impressive panorama
- For readers of Juli Zeh, Mariana Leky and Dörte Hansen
Genre: Fiction, Nature / Knowledge
Martina Behm
Martina Behm trained as a journalist and is a mother of two children. She studied Economics in Konstanz and Oxford, and has come back to her roots in Northern Germany after having lived in Santiago de Chile and Hamburg. 'Out Here' is Martina Behm’s debut novel.
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496 pages,
ISBN: 978-3-423-28478-3
First published 2025