Falling is like flying

Title: Falling is like flying

Writer: Manon Uphoff

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789021408026

Condition: Good

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Description:
Shortlist Bookspot Literature Prize 2019.

When her sister, sixteen years older, starved and dehydrated, falls down the stairs and dies, it ignites the writer's anger like a spark. The death of Henne Vuur, once her 'shadow mother', forces her to face a gruesome and frightening past.
As an accuser and chronicler, she records that past in a book full of stories: about father Holbein, who was a designer, magician, scientist, failed seminarian and god of a personal, labyrinthine world; about Libby and Toddiewoddie, her other sisters, with whom she can take revenge as witches in their own Walpurgis Night and laugh until redemption follows; about their lives full of crushing impressions, physical limitlessness, abuse, violence, beauty and pain.

Falling is like flying is a novel rooted in reality about the ever-expanding, painful past. Like no other, Manon Uphoff knows how to portray the search for love, for an identity, hard and at the same time poetic, with power and humor.