Amrum

About the connection to an island and its people that endures everything. Nanning is at home among oyster fishermen and curlews: Amrum, the wild North Sea island with its sandbanks and vibrant heather fields, is all he knows. But the war does not spare the small island community either. Food is scarce, and as long as his father is not with them, Nanning must take care of his heavily pregnant mother and his younger siblings. In the last months of the war, Nanning and his best friend Hermann turn it into a game to wrest food from the barren nature: they hunt rabbits, kick flatfish, and trade their catch for the essentials. Until the news of Hitler's death reaches the island community, shaking the certainty of old orders to its core.

"Amrum" tells a story of wild beauty about what origin means, what it makes of a person – how one learns to forge their own path. Torben Kessler gives the novel its voice.

"Amrum is the piece of earth that tells me I am home." Hark Bohm.