Used Book – The Taste of Apple Seeds, Katharina Hagena, Bernard Kreiss

After Bertha's death, her three daughters and granddaughter, Iris, the narrator, gather in their family home in Bootshaven, northern Germany, for the reading of the will. To her surprise, Iris inherits the house. A librarian in Freiburg, she initially has no intention of keeping it. But as she rediscovers each room, each part of the wonderful garden, her memories bring back the moving and tragic history of three generations of women. A great novel about memory and forgetting. If, between the pages, one smells the scents "of apple and old stones," it is because, in a style whose sobriety always strikes the right chord, she marvelously knows how to bring memory to life. Elvire Emptaz, Elle. Anything but insignificant, in a German family, whose "disposition to forget" deceives no one. Jeanne de Ménibus, Figaro madame.