Loving at a Distance

Loving at a Distance talks about the author’s experiences in the hotspots of the high-tech sector in California: the Silicon Valley and the college towns of Berkeley and Stanford. The regular transatlantic journeys to visit her children and grandchildren in California aren’t really helping the grandmother understand the Californian way of life and work.

Is she too old, too European, too much of a bibliophile? With self-irony and laconism, the book describes the connections between the generations, the different lifestyles and attitudes. Living on two different continents is always a big challenge for a family, in times of a pandemic, however, the challenge becomes almost insurmountable. This experience is one the German grandmother shares with millions of other families around the world.

The personal impressions and observations are complemented by flashbacks of the author’s career in international book trade. Why were the business trips to Beijing, Beirut and Kolkata so easy to manage while life in California is not? An entertaining and stimulating book about different ways of living and working in the age of globalism.

»... a surprisingly small great book, a memory of today, a pause after many years of travelling the world, with unconditional commitment to the authors, with fabulous successes in the worldwide distribution of the books of these very authors.« Klaus Schöffling, BuchMarkt

»An entertaining and inspiring book about ways of living and working in the globalised world.« Diplomatisches Magazin