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Nightberries
Where is your husband? Nelli doesn’t seem to be in crisis—or does she? The quiet youngest daughter in a noisy, tangled German Mennonite family who fled from Russia in the 1990s, does she even know where she belongs? Marriage, loyalty, faith, family: memory can be deceiving. A tense and unusual situation boils over in this darkly entertaining psychological novel of contemporary German life.
Reflects on trauma identity and language in a dark and often humorous wayNelli lived as a devout Mennonite until one day her son discovered the mortal remains of his father carefully portioned in Ziploc bags tucked between zwieback and dumplings in the basement freezer As the story unfolds and facts of the case are slowly revealed the narrator illuminates the everyday life of German Mennonites from the Soviet Unionreview of German novel Nachtbeeren in Anabaptist World
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Dimensions:
152 Pages
9in * 6in * 0.4in
1lb
Published:
March 01, 2026
Publisher:
ISBN:
9781987986280
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Language:
eng
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