Sommerrauschen

Christiane Adlung
SOMMERRAUSCHEN / SUMMER MURMURS
A Novel, ca. 272 pages, Spring 2026

A delicate yet powerful novel about seemingly endless, shimmering summers in France and a friendship that ended abruptly

Layer by layer, Christiane Adlung uncovers long-suppressed events

About a great loss and conflicting feelings between two women who meet again after decades

Five houses on stilts—the summer quarters of a handful of families in Médoc. Since childhood, Judith has spent every August here. Surfing in the Atlantic, swimming in the lake, temporary tattoos on sun-tanned skin. And always by Judith’s side back then: her little sister Lola and Natascha, the girl from the house next door. Years later, Judith, now a
successful sculptor, lives alone with her husband Robert and their twin daughters in house at the corner. Only Oda, Judith's eccentric mother, returns here as well after the death of her father. But even though the house is filled with people again, the painful gaps in Judith's life are most evident here.
When the vacant neighbouring house is put up for sale, Robert is immediately interested.For Judith, however, these four walls and their stories awaken deep-seated memories. And when Natascha suddenly shows up with her husband Simon, all the feelings Judith has been trying to suppress since that summer forty years ago suddenly come flooding back.

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