The second volume in Monika Helfer’s internationally bestselling wartime trilogy, based on the history of her own family.
Monika Helfer grew up in Vorarlberg, Austria. Her novels
include the internationally bestselling, Schubart Prize-winning Die
Bagage (Last House Before the Mountain) and Löwenherz (Lionheart).
She has been awarded the Bodensee and Solothurn Literature Prizes,
the Johann Beer Prize, and the Austrian Cross of Honor. She lives
in Hohenems, Austria.
Gillian Davidson is a literary translator based in London.
Monika Helfer's Last House Before the Mountain was her first
published work of translation.
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