Monika Helfer is the bestselling author of novels, short stories, and children’s books, including, most recently, Vati [Daddy], Die Bagage [Last House Before the Mountain], and Die Bar im Freien [The Outdoor Bar]. This is her first novel to be translated into English. She lives in Hohenems, Austria. Gillian Davidson is a literary translator based in London. She greatly admires Monika Helfer’s work and Last House Before the Mountain is her first published work of translation.

A novel about what’s hidden and what happens when it is revealed ... What distinguishes Last House Before the Mountain from a hundred other family stories is its charm: narrated by Maria’s granddaughter, it confides in the reader intimately. And when we learn that the story is based on Helfer’s own family, the final moving paragraph strikes the reader like a knife to the heart

Monika Helfer is the bestselling author of novels, short stories, and children’s books, including, most recently, Vati [Daddy], Die Bagage [Last House Before the Mountain], and Die Bar im Freien [The Outdoor Bar]. This is her first novel to be translated into English. She lives in Hohenems, Austria. Gillian Davidson is a literary translator based in London. She greatly admires Monika Helfer’s work and Last House Before the Mountain is her first published work of translation.

A novel about what’s hidden and what happens when it is revealed ... What distinguishes Last House Before the Mountain from a hundred other family stories is its charm: narrated by Maria’s granddaughter, it confides in the reader intimately. And when we learn that the story is based on Helfer’s own family, the final moving paragraph strikes the reader like a knife to the heart

Monika Helfer is the bestselling author of novels, short stories, and children’s books, including, most recently, Vati [Daddy], Die Bagage [Last House Before the Mountain], and Die Bar im Freien [The Outdoor Bar]. This is her first novel to be translated into English. She lives in Hohenems, Austria. Gillian Davidson is a literary translator based in London. She greatly admires Monika Helfer’s work and Last House Before the Mountain is her first published work of translation.

A novel about what’s hidden and what happens when it is revealed ... What distinguishes Last House Before the Mountain from a hundred other family stories is its charm: narrated by Maria’s granddaughter, it confides in the reader intimately. And when we learn that the story is based on Helfer’s own family, the final moving paragraph strikes the reader like a knife to the heart