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Marzahn, Mon Amour - Paperback

by Katja Oskamp
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Availability:In StockContributor:Katja Oskamp, Jo HeinrichTheme:Cultural Region/GermanyPublish date:7/7/2026Pages:144
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Peirene Press Ltd.ISBN-13:9781908670694ISBN-10:190867069XUPC:9781908670694Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Biographical & Autofiction, MedicalSize:7.70 x 4.80 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.114Product ID:SCZMJ0HZ11
Winner of the Dublin Literary Award 2023.

As heard on BBC Radio 4 'Book at Bedtime', August 2022

Shortlisted for The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and the TA First Translation Prize.

Spiegel bestseller, selected for Berlin Reads One Book 2021. Over 180,000 copies sold worldwide.

A woman approaching the 'invisible years' of middle age abandons her failing writing career to retrain as a chiropodist in the East Berlin suburb of Marzahn, once the GDR's largest prefabricated housing estate. From her intimate vantage point at the foot of the clinic chair, she observes her clients and co-workers, listening to their stories with empathy and curiosity.

Part autofiction, part collective history, Katja Oskamp's love letter to the inhabitants of Marzahn is a tender reflection on life's progression and our ability to forge connections in the unlikeliest of places. Each person's story stands alone as a beautifully crafted vignette, but together they form a portrait of a community.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Peirene Press Ltd.ISBN-13:9781908670694ISBN-10:190867069XUPC:9781908670694Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Biographical & Autofiction, MedicalSize:7.70 x 4.80 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.114Product ID:SCZMJ0HZ11
Katja Oskamp was born in 1970 in Leipzig and grew up in Berlin. After completing her degree in theatre studies, she worked as a playwright at the Volkstheater Rostock and went on to study at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. In 2007 she published her first novel Die Staubfängerin. Her book Marzahn, Mon Amour, published by Hanser with the subtitle 'Stories of a Chiropodist', was selected for the 'Berlin Reads One Book' campaign and thus literally became the talk of the town. She is a member of PEN Centre Germany. Marzahn, Mon Amour is her first novel to be translated into English. Her collection of stories Half Swimmer was published in the UK in 2024.

Like the narrator in Marzahn, Mon Amour, Jo Heinrich found her ideal career in her middle years, and graduated in 2018 with a distinction in her MA in Translation from the University of Bristol. She was shortlisted for the 2020 Austrian Cultural Forum London Translation Prize and the 2019 John Dryden Translation Competition. She translates from French and German, and she lives just outside Bristol with her family. Marzahn, Mon Amour is her first literary translation.


Publisher: Peirene Press Ltd.

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Katja Oskamp, Jo Heinrich

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Katja Oskamp

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