Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl

A landmark of 20th Century literature about New York in the late 1960s, now in English for the first time.


Late in 1967, Uwe Johnson set out to write a book that would take the unusual form of a chapter for every day of the ongoing year. It would be the tale of Gesine Cresspahl, a thirty-four-year-old single mother who is a German émigré to Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and of her ten-year-old daughter, Marie—a story of work and school, of friends and lovers and the countless small encounters...