Pepsi loves life and the shimmering sleep of summer. Her parents work in Hesse and only spend the summer holidays on her grandfather's lonely farm in Dalmatia. She also stays with other relatives from time to time, but wherever she is, she remains a stranger.

She only feels at home in nature, and spends her days barefoot in the grass. When her parents take her to live with her siblings in a one-room apartment in a village in the Taunus, Pepsi wants to leave immediately. Her mother's hands, cracked from cleaning, are incapable of any tenderness. Her father starts his days with schnapps.

But the new life also has things that the girl feels magnetically drawn to:

the world of books and letters, the German language, which she falls in love with as suddenly and intensely as she later does with Aleksandar. But when she wants to take her high school diploma and study, she is forbidden to do so because she is not a boy. It is like a stab in the heart, a farewell - and at the same time a new beginning.

"Marica Bodrožić pursues a poetics that includes all the senses." Bayern 2

Marica Bodrožić was born in Dalmatia in 1973. In 1983 she moved to Hesse. She writes poems, novels, short stories and essays that have been translated into over 16 languages. She has received numerous awards for her work to date, most recently the Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize (2020), the Manès-Sperber Literature Prize (2021) and the Irmtraud Morgner Prize (2023). Marica Bodrožić lives with her family in Berlin and in a village in Mecklenburg.

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