Maman
Sylvie Schenk’s book Maman paints a loving portrait of her own mother, which develops into a painful reckoning.
Sylvie Schenk’s mother was born in Lyon in 1916, and her ...
Sylvie Schenk
Sylvie Schenk was born in Chambéry, France in 1944, studied in Lyon and has lived in Germany since 1966. She has published poetry in French and has written in German since 1992. She lives near Aachen and in La Roche-de-Rame, Hautes-Alpes. Hanser has published her novels Schnell, dein Leben (2016) and Eine gewöhnliche Familie (2018).
Roman d'Amour
“This man, who cheated on his wife and lied to me, seemed like the most honest person I had ever met.” Roman d’amour is a finely-spun novel about adultery, packed with life experience and ...
moreA Normal Family
Following on from her novel Schnell, dein Leben, in which she tells a woman’s life story, Sylvie Schenk’s new novel now tells a family’s life story. In poetic, lucid and incisive language, ...
moreHurry, Your Life
Louise grows up in France, Johann in West Germany. They meet at a French university, marry, move to a German village, watch their children grow up and their parents die. For a entire lifetime, ...
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