Trine and her mother live in a cottage on the German coast. The mudflats that surround them disappear and reappear with the North Sea tides. The family leads a lonely existence, but each person has adapted in their own way. Anna roams the beaches collecting flotsam and jetsam to make art, while Trine loves playing on a war-time shipwreck. That is, until Trine’s brother appears. Everyone assumed that he had been killed in the war but what if he survived?
In her taut style, Meike Ziervogel tells a coming-of-age story from 1950s Germany – a place still haunted by war. A place where people pretend not to notice the ghosts.
About the author
Meike Ziervogel grew up in Germany and came to Britain in 1986 to study Arabic. In 2008, she founded Peirene Press. Flotsam is Meike’s fifth novel. Find out more about Meike at www.meikeziervogel.com
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