Eine sehr kleine Frau

The sensitive exploration of his own family history In this great novel, Peter Henisch remembers his grandmother, from whom he learned to tell stories. In 1945, on walks through bombed-out Vienna, the grandmother told her grandson stories that were decisive for his life - and now, decades later, he is searching for her own story. Thirty years after 'Die kleine Figur meines Vaters' - a classic of Austrian literature - Peter Henisch once again deals with his family history in a very impressive way. In 2007 on the shortlist for the German Book Prize "A quiet masterpiece: in simple, melodic sentences it has suspended time. Ulrich Weinzierl in 'The Literary World'.