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Helen Wesendahl wakes up hospital, with no control over her body, speechless, with gaps in her memory. Her journey back into life confronts her with a stranger, but it's the woman she once was. Kathrin Schmidt makes it possible to feel the loss of orientation and speech after a brain injury and shows a road to recovery that leads in two directions, both backwards and forwards. This produces a very unique version of a novel that traces its character's development, riveting in its inner dynamism and fascinating in the unrestrained way in which its heroine confronts her past and present.


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Kathrin Schmidt, born 1958 in Gotha, has worked as a qualified psychologist, editor and social scientist. She has received numerous awards, include the Leonce-und-Lena-Preis for 1993. Her novel "Die Gunnar-Lennefsen-Expedition", published in 1998, was awarded the Förderpreis des Heimito-von-Doderer-Preises and the Preis des Landes Kärnten in the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Wettbewerb 1998. She lives in Berlin.