"A book of radical beauty." Antje Rávik Strubel
Driven by gloomy thoughts in her everyday life and an incessant racing in her body, Johanna gets stranded in a surf camp in the Algarve. Instead of returning home after two weeks of summer vacation, resuming her career as a voice actress and saving her relationship with Rosa, she stays on the Atlantic coast. She starts working at the surf camp, falls in love with two women at once and seems to feel a little lighter with each day in the waves. But with the onset of autumn, what she actually wants to leave behind catches up with her.
"House of Wind" is a surf novel without surfer boys, a summer novel with a stormy winter. The belated coming of age of a child who grew up too early. And the story of a queer East German woman searching for her own voice.
Laura Nauman, born in Leipzig in 1989, lives in Berlin. Her plays have been performed and awarded numerous times in German-speaking countries, including commissioned works for Schauspielhaus Bochum, Schauspiel Frankfurt and Staatsschauspiel Dresden. She is co-founder of the performance collectives machina eX and Henrike Iglesias. She studied creative writing and cultural journalism at the University of Hildesheim until 2012 and screenwriting at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin since 2022. "Haus aus Wind" is her debut novel.
"Haus aus Wind", 336 pages, will be published on 24.07.2024 by S. Fischer Verlag