Natascha Wodin
»Natascha Wodin does not grapple with language; she dwells within it and can authenticate any narrative through the power of her words.« (Der Tagesspiegel)
A slim volume of poetry chanced upon in a bookshop sets in train a passionate love story, an obsession, agony and entanglement. The woman who reads the poems feels “energy emanating from the very first lines, light and darkness, pain and beauty, power … and the world changed for me in an instant because it now held this voice.” The voice of a kindred spirit, the voice of someone lost…but also found, for she moves heaven and earth to meet the author of these poems. He lives a world away, in the other half of a divided Germany. She writes and she rings. And when one day he really appears, her dream comes true. And turns into a nightmare, because the man who arrives and stays is not the man she invented for herself.
The writer and translator Natascha Wodin was born in Fürth in 1945 and now lives in Berlin. Her previous publications include Die gläserne Stadt (The Glass City), Einmal lebte ich (Once I lived) and Erfindung einer Liebe (Inventing Love). She is a ...
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