New Garden Stories / Neue Gartengeschichten
With pictures by Michael Sowa
»Spring had begun deceptively pretty, then the world came to a sudden halt. And the greening patch of land, with still a lot of room for improvement, lavishly adorned by forget-me-nots and early short-legged irises, seemed to be the only place with no threat of danger.«
Eva Demski has been with her garden for fifty years now. Time to think about what things should be like moving forward. In her New Garden Stories, she talks about challenges she would never have dreamed of. It’s not just climate change and dealing with the fear of a virus that are giving her a hard time, but also her own age and box hedges that have been ripped out. The only thing that helps is telling stories, and if you are no longer allowed to enjoy faraway gardens, you just have to...
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Eva Demski has been with her garden for fifty years now. Time to think about what things should be like moving forward. In her New Garden Stories, she talks about challenges she would never have dreamed of. It’s not just climate change and dealing with the fear of a virus that are giving her a hard time, but also her own age and box hedges that have been ripped out. The only thing that helps is telling stories, and if you are no longer allowed to enjoy faraway gardens, you just have to look nearby. There are undiscovered green worlds just around the corner.
This and many other things in fauna and flora is what Eva Demski talks about in her new book. »Be happy about everything you can get« is the conclusion that gardeners can draw from big, small and very small disasters.
An inspiring, clever and entertaining book about people’s favourite place.
2023, 189 pages
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Year of Publication: 2024
Eva DemskiYear of Publication: 2024
Treasure Chest
»I could no longer ignore them, my things, my utterly everyday, inconspicuous possessions. They wanted their own stories, every last one of them.«
A pair of broken flip flops, having given up the ghost after years of faithful service; a magnifying glass inherited from a wealthy poet; an ugly wooden spoon made of teak, unused for years; an old pocket watch, a family heirloom; and a...
A pair of broken flip flops, having given up the ghost after years of faithful service; a magnifying glass inherited from a wealthy poet; an ugly wooden spoon made of teak, unused for years; an old pocket watch, a family heirloom; and a...
Year of Publication: 2022
Eva DemskiYear of Publication: 2022
My Anarchist Album
God wants it that way. The state wants it that way. Your father wants it that way. But why is there a superior, invisible entity that tells me what to do, what not to do, what to think, what to believe, which profession to have and whom to love? Anarchism puts us on a political and philosophical merry-go-round of which you don’t know when it will stop. Anarchism is not satisfied with...
Year of Publication: 2017
Eva DemskiYear of Publication: 2017
I’ll Carry My Suitcase Myself
Despite the odds, a life which shouldn’t have been at all becomes colourful and exciting. Being a constant part of this life, farewells can be countered by encounters and stories though the feeling that this is all a game continues throughout unabated. Eva Demski gathers together others’ lives, those both known and unknown; leading lights of literature like Reich-Ranicki, Koeppen, Kempowski,...
Year of Publication: 2014
Eva DemskiYear of Publication: 2014
Dead Alive
Dead Alive is a novel about love in a time of great political unrest. In sensitive but never sentimental prose, Eva Demski tells the story of a woman faced with the challenge of fathoming a...
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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (Harper & Row), France (Albin Michel), Netherlands (De Boekerij), Sweden (Norstedts), Turkey (Can)
Year of Publication: 2009
Eva DemskiYear of Publication: 2009
Garden Stories
In many religions paradise is described as a garden. Countless people would love to have something resembling paradise in this life already. From this moment on, a question arises every day: Does the garden own us or do we own the garden?
Since Adam and Eve this question has been of some importance to humanity. In her book Eva Demski follows the relationship between garden and mankind...
Since Adam and Eve this question has been of some importance to humanity. In her book Eva Demski follows the relationship between garden and mankind...