Juras letzter Winter

In his new novel, the narrator, Edgar, comes across the story of a boy who starved to death during the German Wehrmacht’s siege of Leningrad. Jura left behind a diary that Edgar reads over and over again, until he soon feels as though he knows the boy. Jura becomes a character in the novel, just as Edgar does. Their relationship begins tentatively but grows closer throughout the story. A conversation unfolds between the two about youth, dreams, literature, mothers, farewells, alienation, and intimacy, and they share their most personal stories with one another.
Edgar Selge creates a memorial to a young man who was brutally murdered by the Nazis, bringing him to life for his readers. A moving read, a book of boundless literary imagination.