In winter your heart
In Winter Your Heart is the fifth novel by the German writer Benjamin Lebert . It was published by Hoffmann und Campe in 2012 .
content
Two young men and a young woman, Robert, Kudowski and Annina, travel through a snowy world. You will meet few people along the way, as it has become a common practice to hibernate - a newly invented pill makes it possible. The young people, however, refuse to sleep long: the two men leave a therapeutic clinic, the young woman her job at a gas station to make her way to Munich, where Robert wants to visit his terminally ill father. Both men are in love with Annina, but in the course of the story a friendship develops between them, which gives the emotionally endangered new support and happiness.
background
In an interview in the magazine der Zeit , Benjamin Lebert reveals that the plot of the novel reflects some of his own experiences. The author had developed an eating disorder two years earlier, as a result of which he became so emaciated that a longer stay in hospital was necessary. The hero of the novel Robert also suffers from an eating disorder. Like Benjamin Lebert, he overcomes the disease.
criticism
The novel tended to have mixed and negative reactions. For example, wrote Maximilian Probst in time , "Lebert has been missing for foreigners at the end of courage. The hibernation country does not come to life, it remains, neglected, nothing more than a backdrop. The friendship story takes place in front of it with its well-known triadic structure: two men, one woman. Oh no, not again! ”The novel performed much better in the NZZ . The reviewer Alexandra von Arx criticizes Lebert's "strong expressiveness" every now and then slipping into "banality", but for the young author the novel is "a clear promise for the future."