Jahre später

The anatomy of a toxic partnership. With "Das Mädchen" and "April" - both shortlisted for the German Book Prize - Angelika Klüssendorf wrote the story of a strong young woman who makes her way under adverse circumstances. "Years Later" now tells of the adult girl April's most intense but also most destructive relationship - her marriage. At a reading, April meets a man who initially catches her eye with his brazenly spacey manner. It is not sympathy that brings them together. It is another form of attraction: intensity. A fateful encounter. Because Ludwig, the surgeon from Hamburg, will become a life person for April - and April for him. For better or for worse. Angelika Klüssendorf tells how a love develops between two radical loners, both of whom try to enter the social sphere with their own means.