El Fuego - Paperback

by Daniela Krien (Author), Isabel García Adánez (Translator)

Best seller #1 in Switzerland; Best seller #3 in Germany An intimate and current portrait of love and marriage in the equator of life. After a fire leaves their plans adrift, Peter and Rahel decide to spend the holidays on a farm outside Dresden, the place where she spent the summer during her childhood. It's a quiet, secluded space that should bring peace and tranquility to their long marriage; Instead, it removes some pains from the past. Traumas of raising their two children in East Germany, the challenges of the cultural crisis of reunification and the history of thirty years of union that have not been free of adversity. First quietly, then like a powerful roar, Rahel understands that the passion between them, and perhaps love too, has faded. Now, with three weeks ahead, they must decide whether or not there is a future together. In this acclaimed existential novel, Daniela Krien shows her ability to explore, with sensitivity and lucidity, desire, fear and human fragility, in a style that manages to be as simple as it is profound. A moving story that speaks of maturity and loneliness, and that considers the limits and elasticities of love crossed by time.

Author Biography

Daniela Krien (Neu Kaliß, 1975) worked in various jobs before 2010, when she decided to dedicate herself fully to film and writing. Considered one of the most prominent voices in contemporary German literature, she achieved international recognition since the publication of her first work, a novel about German reunification that earned her the prestigious Junger Literaturpreis and was translated to 17 languages. Her second installment, Love in an Emergency (2019), reached the top of the best-seller lists in her country, being translated into 18 languages and made into a film by Emily Atef. Isabel Garcí a Adá nez (Madrid, 1972), with a degree in German Philology and Hispanic Philology and a doctor in German Philology, is a Full Professor of German Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid and researches literature and arts from the 19th to 21st centuries. She lives in Madrid with frequent getaways to Berlin. In 2006 she received the I Esther Bení tez Prize for The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann and in 2020 the National Translation Prize for Always the Same Snow and Always the Same Uncle by Herta Mü ller.