by Leonie Ossowski · Heyne Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783453032552
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«Weichselkirschen» is the novel by Leonie Ossowski, published by Heyne Verlag in paperback (378 pages, in German).
The novel recounts the return of journalist Anna, after thirty years, to the small village of her childhood. There she meets again people from her youth, an old love, and a reality very different from the one she remembered. Memory, identity, and the passage of time are the axes of this rural story.
The novel was originally published in 1976 and is the first installment of Leonie Ossowski's Silesia Trilogy (Schlesien-Trilogie).
For readers of contemporary fiction looking for stories of memory, childhood, and rural life in Germany.
Jolanthe von Brandenstein, known by her pen name Leonie Ossowski, was a German writer. She also wrote under the name Jo Tiedemann. She wrote novels, including the novel for young adults Die große Flatter which was filmed as an award-winning TV play, screenplays such as for Zwei Mütter, stories and non-fiction books. Notable awards include the Hermann Kesten Medal of the Pen Centre and the Adolf-Grimme-Preis.
