Schönwald

A German family, a great novelUnlike Harry, Ruth Schönwald does not think that every feeling has to be articulated, every problem has to be addressed. She could have made a career for herself, but gave it up because of the children and in favour of Harry. What they saw in each other that evening at a ball is not always clear to both of them in the decades to come. In the meantime, their three children Chris, Karolin and Benni have grown up. When Karolin opens a queer bookshop, they all come together in Berlin, even Chris, who is a professor in New York and thus what Ruth always dreamed of. There, the old conflict finally breaks open. "Schönwald" is the stirring novel of a family and two generations who have never learned to talk to each other - and are bound together by a great secret.