Spoil the Harvest: A Novel

A Finalist for the 2025 Austrian Book Prize

For readers of Nelio Biedermann's Lázár and Ottessa Moshfegh's Lapvona, from a dazzling new voice in European literature, this compact, magical realism epic tells the story of a rural farming family living on the edge of the German empire through the eyes of its final descendant.

The story begins with my great-grandmother, born a farmer's daughter on the first day of the new century in a village on the North Sea.

Alma has grown up on her family's ...