Das Lieben danach

Reading this book is a radical experience. A luminous text about breaking pain and the beauty of self-reconciliation, as Gabriele von Arnim puts it. This book breaks the shame. What a discovery - it takes a whole lifetime to write such a text. "The story seemed completely insignificant to me for many years." From this sentence, seventy-year-old Helene Bracht recounts a long-buried experience that she shares with many women and men: that the journey of life with love and sexuality has not always been good and consensual. How does one love and desire when painful experiences are hidden behind? How does one continue to live and love? This text tells a powerful, taboo-breaking story about abuse and its boundaries, uniquely witty and confident. This account will change ways of thinking and mean a lot to many people.