Der Literarische Salon mit Anne de Marcken

We became aware of Anne de Marcken because Clemens Setz is her translator, the winner of the Büchner Prize, who gave us one of the most beautiful salons ever. If Setz takes so much time for a foreign book, then it must be a very special one. And indeed: "It lasts forever and then it's over" captivated us from the very first pages, it is so quirky, so mysterious, so well told: The heroine lives in the afterlife, in the hotel of the undead to be precise, has one crow too many, but one arm too few. She also has problems with her memories, she doesn't even remember her name. But there was something, some kind of feeling. Was it called love? The nameless woman with the crow and only one hand sets off in search of what was once important in her life. Sounds a bit like Setz - and yet it's completely different! The artist and writer Anne de Marcken lives on the lonely Coast Salish in Olympia, Washington. For her new novel "It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over", she received the Novel Prize and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction in the United States - in addition to many glowing reviews. The book will be published in German by Suhrkamp on March 31, and as we have already had the pleasure of reading it, we are sure that Anne de Marcken will also delight the German public.