The Possibility of Happiness - Couverture souple

Rabe, Anne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1836750358 ISBN 13 : 9781836750352

Editeur : Akoya Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

'We got used to the silence around us and to the stories we didn’t understand.' 

Stine was just four years old when the country she was born into ceased to exist. Too young to remember life before the fall of the Berlin Wall, she grew up in a household haunted by loss and fracture. Her family struggled to find its place in a newly unified Germany, and questions about the past were met with silence – a silence that transformed their home into a place of fear. 

Told in fragments that blend fiction, poetry and a searing investigation of the past, The Possibility of Happiness finds Stine, now an author, reckoning with her family’s – and her country’s – complex history. 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anne Rabe is a German writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. As a writer and essayist, Rabe’s work explores her personal experience and the collective experience of living in East Germany and the aftermath of German Reunification. As such, Rabe has a significant role in the collective effort to reconcile East Germany’s past and present. The Possibility of Happiness is her debut novel.

Lizzy Kinch is a translator of German literature. Her translations have appeared in Chicago Review, No Man’s Land, La Piccioletta Barca and in Deep Vellum's Best Literary Translations 2025 Anthology. The Possibility of Happiness is her debut book-length translation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Akoya Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1836750358
• ISBN 13: 9781836750352
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible