Homepage / Annuschka Blume
Coverabbildung von "Annuschka Blume"

Marjana Gaponenko - Annuschka Blume

This book is full of miracle and wonder! A novel filled to the brink with colors, soul, love, pathos and humor.

Annuschka is a teacher living in provincial Ukraine, Piotr is a journalist and globetrotter who is always far, far away to prove that that there is no difference between steppe and mountains. Just like there is no difference between humans and animals, men and women, happiness and unhappiness, here and there. It all depends on how far you distance yourself from plain facts. That is exactly what these two do full of ardor and passion by writing each other letters. Writing letters? They rather fire them like rockets, catapulting themselves and the world into outer space, from where things actually do look different than with your feet on the ground. And so they float and flirt and intoxicate themselves with feelings, telling each other stories that are funny and sad at the same time – because what’s the difference? This truly is no book for bureaucrats or goodie-two-shoes. Hands off!

Book details

256 pages
format:125 x 205
ISBN: 9783701715442
Release date: 09.09.2010

License rights

  • World rights available
License requests

Sie können dieses Buch vormerken:

Authors
Marjana Gaponenko

was born 1981 in Odessa, Ukraine, where she studied German Studies. Today she lives in Mainz, Germany after stops in Krakow and Dublin. Since 1996 she has been writing in German and has published texts in several literary magazines and anthologies. In 2009 she received the Frau-Ava literary award. “Annuschka Blume” is her first novel.

Press

Das ist ein Buch für Träumer und solche, die es werden wollen. Eine wunderbare Erzählung, die eine ungewöhnliche Liebesgeschichte in einem mit klugem Witz und menschlicher Wärme ausgestatteten, sehr poetischen deutschem Idiom erzählt.
FAZ, Sabine Berking

Marjana Gaponenkos Debütroman ist eine Hommage an das Leben und an die Phantasie.
WDR, Dina Netz

Ein Buch voller Liebe zu Worten und zur Welt, eines, das einen eigenen Büchertisch verdient, unbedingt.
BUCHMARKT, Susanne Wengeler

Gaponenko ist mit ihrem Debüt direkt ein besonderes Buch gelungen, das trotz der postmodernen literarischen Tendenzen zur klassischen Tradition des Briefromans zurückkehrt und in dem sich eine mitreißende Liebesgeschichte zwischen Annuschka und Piotr entwickelt. (…) Eine besondere Lektüre während der winterlichen Tage, die den Blick von LeserInnen für das Besondere im Unscheinbaren schärfen will.
[Quelle: Irine Beridze, READOST]

You might also be interested in

Coverabbildung von 'the voice above the roofs'

Verena Mermer - the voice above the roofs

Baku, Azerbaijan, spring 2011: the city is in uproar, protests against the authoritarian regime are growing louder. In the midst of it are Ali and Nino, Frida and Che, two young couples fighting not only against state repression but for their love, for freedom and self-determination, for happiness and a life they can call their own. Yet Verena Mermer evokes more than just the political struggles and everyday life in one of the last dictatorships on Europe’s borders. Her wonderful debut also plays an enthralling game with its characters, with the times and places, the myths of revolution and love and lures us into the labyrinth of poetic invention.