World at My Back

"Books written out of great emotional distress are ... rarely great literature. Thomas Melle''s [The World at My Back] is great literature because he pulls it off without a single false note."
—Deutschlandfunk (German National Radio)

Longlisted for the 2024 National Translation Award in Prose • A Finalist for the German Book Prize • Translated into Eighteen Languages

Addicted to culture, author Thoma...