Kummer aller Art

MARIANA LEKY
Kummer aller Art / Sorrow of All Kinds

Fiction, ca. 128 pages
Autumn 2022

Not a big, new novel, but a little book about sorrow that puts you in a surprisingly good mood by bestselling author Mariana Leky

"How small is that with which we wrestle, what wrestles with us, how great is that." Rainer Maria Rilke

"I have rarely encountered a book in which such an empathetic, sad, life-wise feeling resonated between the lines.“Benedict Wells on Was man von hier aus sehen kann

Warm-Hearted, Clever, Subtle, Comforting, Delightful

"Everyone seemed squeaky clean on the inside, only on the inside of us it looked like Hempel's under the sofa," kiosk owner Armin thinks to himself as he tries in vain to meditate successfully. And there is also disorder inside the other characters in these literary columns: Mrs. Wiese can no longer sleep, Mr. Pohl is permanently despondent, Lisa has her first lovesickness, Vadim's hands are trembling, Mrs. Schwerter urgently needs to relax, a sad patient has lost his flock and psychoanalyst Ulrich is messing with transience.
Grief of all kinds plagues the people who manoeuvre through everyday life, sometimes better, sometimes worse. But sorrow also unites them, for example when problems are not solved on walks, but at least come out into the open and into the light.
Clever, humorous and with a great sense of subtlety and absurdity, Mariana Leky portrays the situations of people who do not lack trustworthiness, but rather the courage to realise that, fortunately, one cannot permanently avoid life.

Rights sold to: Prostor (Czech); Dardanos Gutenberg (Greek)