Die zweite Heimat der Störche

Four women between Germany and Namibia – a sweeping novel about a past that does not fade. A family story full of secrets and betrayal. A look back at German colonial history. And four intertwined fates of women. Cosima lives with her husband and daughter in Frankfurt when one day her previously unknown grandmother appears at her door. Nele von Kavea reveals to her granddaughter that she is the rightful heir to an estate in Namibia. Cosima resists this inheritance from colonial times and the truth that unfolds during her investigations on-site. For her great-grandmother Arabella, who arrived in the German colony of South West Africa in 1899, is not the only family member who has kept secrets for decades. Confronted with her origins and the violence and guilt from another time, Cosima faces the responsibility of her ancestors and the question: What can one hold on to in the present if not one's own past?.