Brigitta, with Abdias, Limestone & the Forest Path

Richly evocative and brushed with mystery…a wonderful new translation.”” – Publishers Weekly. “”A writer who portrayed the development of people, how they overcome antagonistic forces of family and nature and very often have to pay a great price until a certain serenity in life can be achieved, if at all…Edited very carefully…a pleasure to read.”” – Choice. “”A chance to sample the works of a writer whom Thomas Mann once described as `one of the most remarkable, profound, secretly bold and strangely exciting story-tellers in world literature’. The selection itself is on the whole excellent.”” – TLS. “”The new translation…will make the text accessible to those Women’s Studies courses that discuss portrayals of gender.”” – New German Studies.