{"product_id":"nothing-but-ghosts-paperback","title":"Nothing But Ghosts - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJudith Hermann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMargot Bettauer Dembo\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA short-story collection following several women whose respective relationships are all on the turn in some way and have passed their first flush of romantic love.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe brilliant second collection of stories from Germany's answer to Zadie Smith. Judith Hermann's first collection, \u003ci\u003eSummerhouse, Later\u003c\/i\u003e, sold over 250,000 hardcovers in Germany and was short-listed for both the IMPAC award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. In \u003ci\u003eNothing but Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e, she portrays a generation in a new and precarious stage--she describes relationships with painstaking honesty, filling in the silences where communication has begun to falter and the gaze begins to turn elsewhere.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJudith Hermann\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Berlin in 1970. She is the author of several novels and story collections, including \u003ci\u003eAlice\u003c\/i\u003e, which was short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; \u003ci\u003eWhere Love Begins\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eSummerhouse, Later\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Kleist Prize. Her novel \u003ci\u003eDaheim\u003c\/i\u003e (Home) was a Spiegel bestseller, won the Rheingau and the Bremen Literature Prizes, and was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. Her work has been translated into thirty-five languages, and a number of her short stories have been adapted for film. She lives and works in Berlin. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargot Bettauer Dembo\u003c\/b\u003e (1928-2019) was the translator of works by Judith Hermann, Robert Gernhardt, Joachim Fest, Ödön von Horváth, and Feridun Zaimoglu, among others. She was awarded the Goethe-Institut\/Berlin Translator's Prize in 1994 and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize in 2003. Dembo also worked as a translator for two feature documentary films: \u003ci\u003eThe Restless Conscience\u003c\/i\u003e, which was nominated for an Academy Award, and \u003ci\u003eThe Burning Wall\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 17, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52031556518189,"sku":"9781250408228","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/Rq-FRXWK49781250408228.webp?v=1777556871","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/nothing-but-ghosts-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}