Part confessional, part thriller, Elke Schmitter's explosive first novel is the story of Margaret. Planning to run away with him, she seems unaware that her plan is a fantasy that can never come true,
After being jilted by a rich boyfriend, Margaret Sartoris, eighteen and heartbroken, throws herself into a comfortable but stifling marriage to Ernst, a war veteran with a penchant for routine and ord
An international sensation, Elke Schmitter’s explosive debut novel presents a modern-day twist on Madame Bovary.Margarethe can remember very clearly the last time she was happy: she was eighteen, priz