Clearing

When are you coming?

Four words on a postcard change two lives.

Lev leaves his remote village in Romania, travelling to the centre of Europe to meet his dearest friend, Kato, the outcast girl who had to get out.

But neither of them knows where they belong - or to whom. And in order to go forward, they must look back. 

Iris Wolff unfurls their story, journeying into the past through the incidents that illuminate a life.

‘A wonderful novel’ Die Zeit Book of the Month

‘A magnificently contemporary book’ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

‘Iris Wolff proves to be a superlative storyteller.’ The Times Literary Supplement

Clearing won two major literary prizes, was shortlisted for the German Book Prize and is a Spiegel bestseller.

Both Blurred and Clearing were translated by Ruth Martin, whose work with Shida Bazyar was recently shortlisted for the International Booker Award. 

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