Barbara Stirbt Nicht [Foreign Language]

Bronsky, Alina

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Mr Schmidt is thawing. Walter Schmidt is an old-school man: he has reached retirement without knowing how to make himself a bag soup and without ever having operated a vacuum cleaner. After all, there was always his wife Barbara. But she doesn't get up one morning. And from then on, everything will be different. With bitter wit and great warm-heartedness at the same time, Alina Bronsky tells how the unapproachable Walter Schmidt suddenly has to reinvent himself at the end of his life: as a caregiver, as a househusband and caring partner, whom he has never been in all the years together with Barbara. And of course, it's not just in the kitchen that everything goes wrong. But then Walter discovers the TV chef Medinski and his Facebook page, where he soon finds not only step-by-step instructions, but also unexpected support. Little by little, Walter's rough façade begins to crumble – and with it the old certainties about his life and his family." Barbara does not die« is the hilarious portrait of a marriage whose decades-long routines are overridden in one fell swoop, and a touching novel about the chances of an involuntary new beginning.» Barbara was perfect, he thought surprised. Of course, there were more old women in the world, if only because of the statistics, but Mr. Schmidt had seen them all: no comparison to Barbara.