Blood Book

WINNER OF THE GERMAN BOOK PRIZE, THE SWISS BOOK PRIZE AND THE JÜRGEN PONTO LITERATURE PRIZE'So powerful . . . [a novel] about what it means to be human in a gendered, classist, and sexist world' Times Literary Supplement'Formally adventurous'New York Times 'Everything about it is fantastic'Die Welt'One can only marvel'Die Zeit'An important new voice for a new form of writing'Tages-AnzeigerAs their grandmother slides into dementia, an unnamed narrator begins to question the silence that shrouds their family. Childhood memories resurface, revealing a path into the past - one that winds back generations, leading towards nature, witchcraft, freedom. Could this be where they belong?Bold and expansive, Blood Book is an astounding quest for liberation, and a mesmerising exploration of who we are.Published in the US as Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues