Breathing Life – Stories of Transition
Coming to terms with life – just the way it is
A woman strolls through 1980s East Berlin after work because she doesn’t want to be the first home. In Moscow, a writer, tasked with writing a portrait of the prima ballerina Galina Ulanova, waits for days for a meeting before suddenly, the unexpected happens. A baby takes its first breath; a grandmother takes her last. And a middle-aged woman tries to come to terms with a cancer diagnosis. Stories of longing and wanderlust, of dictatorship and inner freedom, of being and remaining human.
- After the overwhelming success of ‘On Getting Up’: another volume with a selection of stories from the 1970s to the present
- With her trademark precision and laconic style, Helga Schubert takes us on a deep exploration of life
- A committed writer tirelessly raising her voice for an open society
Genre: Fiction, Contemporary Fiction
288 pages,
ISBN: 978-3-423-28513-1
First published 2025