At Best

In an »extraordinary blend of innocence of feeling and narrative sophistication« (Wolfgang Emmerich), Angela Krauß embraces the incredibility of the world. Esprit, tenderness, encouragement and great poetic strength flow in a warm, evocative tone. And what she evokes is nothing less than love, the universe and the future.

Secretly, this woman works, like every other person, on happiness. »The universe has to be built! After all, you have to live somewhere.« The world, meanwhile, shows itself in its true colours: a traumatized place, overloaded with data and gradually fading away.

Somewhere under the mountain of ever-present signs of decay lies the original recipe for complete harmony. How love can be saved in a time of worst-case scenarios, as the very best case – this is what this book seeks to find out.

»Prose and poetry of an extraordinary poetical intensity and veracity, whose power of language transforms the heavy to the light, and pain into beauty.« Jury statement for the Malkowski Prize 2010