Nachtfrauen

When Mira gets into the car to set off for southern Carinthia, she knows that she is in for a difficult time: Her elderly mother has to be prepared to move out of the house where she found shelter decades ago as an unskilled worker with her then young children. The unresolved conflicts bubble to the surface and take up new space in the old house. Mira begins to realise that they are fuelled by the long-silenced life stories of her ancestors. In her latest novel, Maja Haderlap tells of the lives of three generations of women with devastating clarity.