Fiction
The Reason We Remain
by Marlen Pelny
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This novel begins with the murder of 14-year-old Etty – and ends with it, too. Just the way that for Heide, Etty’s mother, life is over to a certain extent but, at the same time, beginning again anew. Because: it’s governed by a new rhythm. From now on, Heide will always be half composed of her missing daughter. From now on, her existence will centre on the question of how to go on living. How to get out of bed each day. How to go on living in the apartment that was also Etty’s home. How to remember her laugh, her cheeky answers, her delicate facial features without falling apart. The people Heide can rely on for support are her closest friends. And us. With impressive precision, Marlen Pelny portrays violence where it actually happens: in our immediate vicinity. Writing with clarity but not voyeurism, unsparingly yet not brutally, she tells a finely drawn, complex story of loss and solidarity, of grief and love – of an aftermath. In the end, we are united. In the end, we are many. In the end, this novel is a linguistically powerful revolt: against fatal injustices. Against the violence we encounter on a daily basis and which we try to survive.
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Author Biography
Marlen Pelny (b. 1981) lives in Berlin. She studied at the Leipzig Literature Institute, where she founded the literary group augenpost. She papered the streets of various German cities with poetry posters and subsequently published two collections of verse: Prelude (Auftakt) in 2007 and Now we just need to slay the beasts (Wir müssen nur noch die Tiere erschlagen) in 2013. She has received grants from numerous bodies, including the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony (2009), the Schloss Wiepersdorf Cultural Foundation (2014), the Brandenburg Gate Foundation (2015) and the Art Foundation of Saxony-Anhalt (2016). In 2019 she was awarded a scholarship to the prose authors’ workshop at the Literary Colloquium Berlin.
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- Publisher Haymon Verlag
- Orginal LanguageGerman
- ISBN/Identifier 9783709981979
- Publication Country or regionAustria
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- Original Language TitleWarum wir noch hier sind
- Copyright Year2023
- Page size240
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