PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Monika Helfer is the bestselling author of novels, short stories, and children's books, including, most recently, Vati [Daddy], Die Bagage [Last House Before the Mountain], and Die Bar im Freien [The Outdoor Bar]. This is her first novel to be translated into English. She lives in Hohenems, Austria. Gillian Davidson is a literary translator based in London. She greatly admires Monika Helfer's work and Last House Before the Mountain is her first published work of translation.
Last House Before the Mountain by Monika Helfer is a masterclass in literary compression. In just 125 pages, Helfer brings a whole world of wonder, loss and deep, deep longing to indelible life * Laird Hunt, author of Zorrie * Monika Helfer powerfully transfigures the lives of a family who exist physically and emotionally at the edge of their society, as the flames of war reshape their shadowed world forever * David Park, author of Spies in Canaan * The whole, biographically inspired family drama tells of the greatest feelings we have: Love, anger, envy and grief * Meike Schnitzler, Brigitte * Every sentence resonates in hazy, indescribable beauty * Alexander Solloch, NDR Kultur * In Monika Helfer's novel, not only every word is right, but every syllable * schreiblust-leselust.de * A powerful, autofictional family epic * TOPMagazin *
