Nothing But Ghosts: Stories by Judith Hermann (2/17/26)

“A fascinating writer who, in the short story, has found the perfect form for her belief in the ‘coincidence that causes a change.’”
—Michael Arditti, The Independent (London)

 

The brilliant second collection of stories from Germany’s answer to Zadie Smith. Judith Hermann’s first collection, Summerhouse, Later, sold over 250,000 hardcovers in Germany and was short-listed for both the IMPAC award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. In Nothing but Ghosts, she portrays a generation in a new and precarious stage—she describes relationships with painstaking honesty, filling in the silences where communication has begun to falter and the gaze begins to turn elsewhere.