Späte Kinder

A smart, sad, and comforting novel about the pain that is family.Twins Sophia and Thomas have always been close, as different as they are. The devoted mother and wife of an art dealer, Sophia fulfills the bourgeois ideal of her parents. Thomas, the maladjusted one, makes his way as a freelance journalist. His choleric father has been dead for years. When their mother also dies, the twins meet at their parents' house, and both have news: Thomas has broken up with his girlfriend, and the new one is much younger than he is. And Sophia is terminally ill with cancer; she has only months left. More than the approaching death, she is tormented by the question: Have I lived at all? While sifting through the estate, the twins are haunted by memories. They argue, hurt each other, and delve deep into their family's history. Sophia decides to put her life in order. This includes one last trip with her daughter and brother. But on the way, tempers escalate. And once again the siblings have to dare to look far back in order to be able to look forward and walk the last part of the way together.