Ronya Othmann is an author, poet, and journalist whose work deals with themes of migration, homeland, and war. She has earned numerous awards, including the Leonhard and Ida Wolf Memorial Prize of the City of Munich and the MDR Literature Prize. Gary Schmidt, chair and professor of German at Coastal Carolina University, is the author of The Nazi Abduction of Ganymede: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Postwar German Literature, cotranslator of What Makes a Man: Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin, and coeditor of Quertext: An Anthology of Queer Voices from German-Speaking Europe.
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A sensitive story of being torn in two, of being caught in the middle." - MDR Kultur "The story of a search for identity, but above all it is a cultural archive that is laid out with sparse literary flourishes, but wide-awake attention to detail and atmospheric undercurrents." - SUEddeutsche Zeitung "Deals with the theme of identity without the usual kitsch that is so often used to write about origins." - taz "A stunning debut novel, told concretely and vividly, with strong characters and dialogues." - Deutschlandfunk Kultur Lesart "Captivating. . . .The Summers is an intricate, powerful novel in which a woman comes of age between two worlds." - Foreword Reviews