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C.H.BECK
Susanne Simor
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German

For a Life

Ulrich Woelk

Embedded in the story of Niki and Lu, Ulrich Woelk tells German history of the last fifty years – containing very different life plans in a captivating, episodic and wide-ranging novel and gives a breathtaking picture of the mysterious intricacies of life. What is the hidden rule of our lives and who are we when we love? Woelk's novel "For a Life" is a terrific reading adventure.

Just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, young doctor Niki Lamont almost causes serious harm to a young man due to a misdiagnosis. Of course, she has no idea that she will marry him one day. The circumstances of their reunion years later are also more than unusual, as is the course of their wedding night. Niki, born in Afghanistan, raised in India and Mexico as a child of German hippies, also meets Lu in the hospital. Lu’s father regularly drinks himself into a coma after the death of his daugher’s mother. The encounter of the two women, both parentless to a certain extent, has consequences they would never have expected ...

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Published by C.H.Beck

Main content page count: 632 Pages

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“Clever and funny at the same time, contemporary German prose writers rarely entertain their readers” Der Spiegel on “The Summer of my Mother”

“He is very close to his characters, who can be quite individual and particular and yet are representatives of their time, its promises and its doom”. Süddeutsche Zeitung on “The Summer of my Mother”

For the completion of "For a life”, Ulrich Woelk received the Alfred Döblin Prize.