ALL THIS HERE, NOW. by Anna Stern

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£11.99
Title All This Here, Now
Author(s)/Editor(s) Anna Stern
Publisher Lolli Editions
Pages 240
Dimensions 138 x 216 mm
Format Softcover
Year 2024

Translated from German by Damion Searls

Winner of the Swiss Book Prize
Winner of the Prisma Prize for LGBTQI+ Literature 

The haunting and intimate account of a group of young adults trying to come to terms with a friend’s premature death

Ananke’s death rips a huge hole in the lives of their friends. A member of the group reflects on their shared mourning, remembering times past: childhood holidays and idyllic summers, as well as tensions and arguments. Ananke is a constant, enigmatic presence, yet remains mysterious and out of reach. When the numbness of trauma becomes too much to bear, the group impulsively takes a road trip to dig up Ananke’s ashes and bring them back to the sea by the hut where Ananke used to live.

Stern’s contemplative, ethereal yet vivid prose brings heightened sensibility to the present moment and the obliquity of memory. Flouting gender pronouns and written entirely in lowercase, all this here, now. is a vision of a more collectively grounded fiction where ‘we’ is stronger than ‘I’. The effect is as meditative as it is compulsively engaging, delivered in Damion Searls’s distinctive translation.

ANNA STERN (b. 1990) works and lives in Zurich. The author of six books, Stern is the recipient of the 3sat Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann competition in Klagenfurt and the St. Gallen Cultural Foundation award for most promising writer. Her literary work has been honoured by the City of Zurich and the Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Foundation. In 2020, Stern was awarded the Swiss Book Prize for all this here, now., which also won the 2023 Prisma Prize for LGBTQI+ Literature.

DAMION SEARLS is a translator from German, Norwegian, French, and Dutch, and a writer in English. He has translated eleven books by Jon Fosse, as well as works by Thomas Mann, Victoria Kielland, Elfriede Jelinek, and Christa Wolf, amongst others.

  • Title

    All This Here, Now

  • Author / Editor

    Anna Stern

  • Publisher

    Lolli Editions

  • Pages

    240

  • Dimensions

    138 x 216mm

  • Format

    Softcover

  • Year

    2024

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