Nevermore

About the passage of time, about disappearance and return, transience and eternity - Cécile Wajsbrot's new novel, masterfully translated by Anne Weber. After the death of a friend and fellow writer, a translator retreats to Dresden to work on the translation of Virginia Woolf's novel "To the Lighthouse." From her tentative attempts to approach the foreign language and time, and the reflections she makes in the process, a captivating music emerges. During her nightly walks, she believes she encounters her deceased friend and can speak with her once more. Her solitude expands into a vast echo chamber, stretching from the dilapidated house in Virginia Woolf's novel through the once-destroyed Dresden to the High Line, a former industrial ruin in New York, and the forbidden zone around Chernobyl. Places that are subject to decay and destruction yet come back to life, fragmented worlds where there is still potential for a new beginning. Translating as a crossing to other shores, to the vanished, into another temporality.