Fliessendes Land

"Flowing Land" is perhaps Angelika Overath's most personal book: a journey into her own past, into other countries and cultures, into the world of writing. Her stories recount encounters with unusual people and open the workshop of the reporter and writer. Step by step, from the diverse prose pieces, memories, travel images, reports, and essays, a special continent of perception unfolds. Writing is a form of traveling. In her new book, Angelika Overath returns to the lost Atlantis of childhood and youth. She tells of promise and shame, of paternal football rituals, of the irritations of first sexuality under cherry trees, and the shy gestures of hoped-for friendship. "Flowing Land" is also a book about being on the way. Angelika Overath.