It lasts forever and then it's over

Anne de Marcken's heroine is in the afterlife: she lives in the inhospitable hotel of the undead and has one arm too few, but one crow too many. She can't remember her name or her childhood - did she like strawberry ice cream? Did she have a green toy truck? Since the mysterious "great catastrophe", she has found herself in the realm of the nameless and history-less, and yet she simply won't give up. Because she has one precious memory left: The memory of one person. With her...in the dunes... Who was the mysterious lover, where has she gone? Full of questions, she sets off with Crow and without an arm to the west, to the sea, in search of who and what she actually is. And in search of what was once called love. "It lasts forever and then it's over", winner of the Novel Prize 2022 and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 2024, is an enchantingly bizarre, extremely funny and poignant journey through a dystopian world without certainties. A world that, despite all the staggering zombies and all the apocalyptic weather lights, seems not so dissimilar to our own - and in which the question of what defines us as human beings at our core can nevertheless be answered in a hair-raisingly plausible way. De Marcken is a writer, artist and publisher living in Olympia, Washington.

Admission: € 11 / 7 (CSH members)
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Event language: English, selected readings in German
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