Atlas unserer spektakulären Körper

A touching, poetic novel about the end of one life and the beginning of another, and about the limits that a weak body can set for a strong spirit.
This is the story of an intangible being. Slowly but inexorably, it wanders through a fascinating landscape: that of the human body. It rests inside, explores cells, tissues, organs. Eloquent and full of unexpected insights, the creature tells of the topography of this body, from which it wrests a little more vitality with each stop on its wanderings.
This is also the story of Lia, a young woman full of life, happily married and mother of a daughter. It is Lia's life whose story this being tells because it knows the young woman inside out: the hidden secrets of her past, the unspoken truths of her present and the inevitability of a future that will be the destination of its journey.Maddie Mortimer's debut is an incredible journey through the human body, telling of spectacular places without which our lives would not exist.