A life in Vienna – an impressive and poignant testimony.
»Is there a unique, significant event that turns a life’s path in a new direction?«
In her autobiographical, very personal debut novel, Ilse Helbich looks back on the first half of her life in particular: she was born into a Viennese industrialist family in 1923. In a patriarchal era, she grew up between the Roaring Twenties, the economic crisis and National Socialism.
Without glorification, the book tells of growing up, becoming herself and asserting herself, from a small child to a woman with a doctorate, of love, marriage and motherhood, tells of aberrations and the horrors of war, asks about justice and paths of faith.
Ilse Helbich’s first book from 2003 is now available in a new edition at Droschl.
»If you are interested in history, in women’s lives and, above all, enjoy wonderful language, you are in good hands with Ilse Helbich.« (Rotraut Schöberl)
»This is a great stroke of luck for us readers, because the late-coming author succeeds in creating a poetic, beautifully unpretentious, confidently unembellished self-portrait and soliloquy about how family and the course of time shape life and how an inexplicable stubbornness goes beyond the framework of the given.« (Ulrich Rüdenauer, WDR)
»A book that encourages us not to ›strike sail‹ and give up in old age, but to keep searching for ways to make our own ›true dreams‹ come true.« (Monika Stemmer, Monalisa Blog)
»The book is a venture. A novel, a literary monologue. A soliloquy. An autobiography. A literary intervention on the open heart. A debut to be celebrated. A great text.« (Anja Knocke, Lesart)
»How impressively Ilse Helbich describes the life of the upper middle class! She brings almost an entire century closer to the reader. With great sincerity and honesty, without sparing herself, she writes everything down, a moving document.« (buecher_mit_chris, Instagram)
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