Liebesperlen

She had imagined everything so beautifully and struggles to maintain her composure when things don't go quite as happily. The narrator of these stories has a tough time. Mariana Leky skillfully portrays a young woman in the delicate transition to adulthood, highlighting the comedy in the tragic. "I once tried to leave, just like that, and as I had just started. I packed all the important things into a box, locked my room, and placed the key on the door frame." But something always gets in the way - a new acquaintance, a horde of slugs, or simply the landlord on the stairs. So she keeps going, "because you can't just always start something; you also have to finish something properly." Compelling, turbulent, charming: Mariana Leky's young narrator explores life.