by Bodo Kirchhoff · Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt · tapa dura · ISBN 9783627002282
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«Widerfahrnis» is the novel by Bodo Kirchhoff, published by Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt in hardcover (223 pages, in German).
Reither, a former editor from a big city, now lives in an Alpine valley and finds a book without a title in the local library. That same night he sets off on a three-day journey to Sicily, where he meets Leonie Palm, the last owner of a hat shop. Both feel unprepared for love and share a silent crossing.
Published in 2016, it was awarded the Deutscher Buchpreis 2016.
It is suitable reading for those who enjoy contemporary German intimate narrative, with love and loss as its core themes.
Bodo Kirchhoff is a German writer and novelist. He was born in Hamburg before moving with his family to Kirchzarten in the Black Forest in 1955, which he describes as a culture shock. In addition to writing literary fiction, he has worked on various projects for German television, such as long-runner Tatort, and has written movie screenplays. One of his best-known novels is Infanta (1990), which has been translated into more than a dozen languages. In 2016, his novel, which features an African migrant in Italy, Encounter won the German Book Prize.
