Running

English sample translation by Deborah Langton available
NDR Book of the Month (September 2019)
SPIEGEL Bestseller

A moving novel about finding your way back to life

Thrown off course by a staggering loss, a woman takes up running. At first, she can only run for short stretches, but gradually running and living become more natural to her again. Step by step, the narrator takes back control of her life.

With great sensitivity Isabel Bogdan describes the journey of a woman who, after a long period of grief, learns to take heart again, recovering her thirst for life and sense of humor.

Written consistently as an internal monologue, this haunting novel shows what it means to convalesce, body and soul.