by Irina Korschunow · Tapa dura · ISBN 9783455040067
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«Glück hat seinen Preis» is the novel by Irina Korschunow, published by Hoffmann und Campe in hardcover (285 pages, in German).
Set in Kiel, the novel follows a chronicler who reconstructs her family's history between 1887 and 1980. Through the figure of her grandfather and several generations of women, it addresses the price of happiness, renunciation, and the role of memory in life.
The work originally appeared in 1983, published in Hamburg, and its cover bears the subtitle «Roman».
For readers of German fiction interested in family memory and the historical past of Kiel.
Irina Korschunow was a German writer. Her oeuvre comprises short stories, novels theatrical works and film scripts. Born in Stendal, she started her career as a journalist and writer for children's books and young adult literature but focused predominantly on writing novels in her later years since about 1983. She was also a translator.
