Tasting Sunlight

by Ewald Arenz Narrated by Julia Barrie

Overview

Teenager Sally has just run away from a clinic where she to be treated for anorexia. She's furious with everything and everyone, and wants to be left in peace. Liss is in her forties, living alone on a large farm that she runs single-handedly. She has little contact with the outside world, and no need for other people. From their first meeting, Sally realises that Liss isn't like other adults; she expects nothing of Sally and simply accepts who she is, offering her a bed for the night with no questions asked. That night becomes weeks and then months, as an unlikely friendship develops and these two damaged women slowly open up - connecting to each other, reconnecting with themselves, and facing the darkness in their pasts through their shared work on the land.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"It reminded me of reading Sally Rooney's Normal People . . . Ewald has a great talent for exploring emotion in a subtle, gentle way. My heart ached for both Sally and Liss, even before I knew their stories - and it takes a writer of immeasurable talent to make you feel that intensely, merely by evoking ripening late summer fruit and the sound of rain on dusty ground" —Elizabeth Haynes, author, Into the Darkest Corner

"Orenda Press have carved out a name for themselves as an indie publisher of exceptional literary fiction and Tasting Sunlight is yet more proof of this. . . . Translated from German by Rachel Ward, this feels like such a timely tale on so many levels. It’s hopeful and poignant and lyrically told. A truly compassionate and heartening book." —CultureFly

"A subtle, beautiful, luminous novel about the healing powers of nature, friendship and acceptance which has sold like hot Gugelhupfs in Arenz's native Germany." —Saga magazine

Tasting Sunlight has been shortlisted for the 2023 Schlegel-Tieck Prize - an annual award for translations into English of full length German works of literary merit and general interest.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940175495134
Publisher:	Oakhill Publishing
Publication date:	06/01/2022
Edition description:	Unabridged

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