El Fuego

Best seller #1 in Switzerland; Best seller #3 in Germany An intimate and current portrait of love and marriage in the equator of life. After a fire leaves their plans adrift, Peter and Rahel decide to spend the holidays on a farm outside Dresden, the place where she spent the summer during her childhood. It's a quiet, secluded space that should bring peace and tranquility to their long marriage; Instead, it removes some pains from the past. Traumas of raising their two children in East Germany, the challenges of the cultural crisis of reunification and the history of thirty years of union that have not been free of adversity. First quietly, then like a powerful roar, Rahel understands that the passion between them, and perhaps love too, has faded. Now, with three weeks ahead, they must decide whether or not there is a future together. In this acclaimed existential novel, Daniela Krien shows her ability to explore, with sensitivity and lucidity, desire, fear and human fragility, in a style that manages to be as simple as it is profound. A moving story that speaks of maturity and loneliness, and that considers the limits and elasticities of love crossed by time.