Anne Cathrine Bomann

Agathe

August 29, 2019
Novel
176 pages
128 × 190 mm
18 €
9782924898352
978-2-9248-9835-2
Translated from the Danish by Inès Jorgensen
																Anne Cathrine Bomann, Agathe
																Anne Cathrine Bomann, Agathe

“Everybody knows you shouldn’t mix therapy and real life; look what happened to good Jung.”

Seventy-two years past, half a century of practice and eight hundred interviews remaining before the closure of his practice: this is what remains of the career path of a psychoanalyst at the end of his career. But the unexpected arrival of one last patient, Agathe Zimmermann, a German woman with an apple smell, turns everything upside down. Fragile and transparent as glass, she has lost the will to live. Agathe is the story of a small miracle, the meeting of two empty beings who fill up again. Anne Cathrine Bomann has written an intelligent and unexpected novel, tenderly dissecting human anxieties: to be, to become someone, to desire and to grow old. Would it be possible to finally discover what we are really afraid of?

The author

Anne Cathrine Bomann is a psychologist and lives in Copenhagen. She is a twelve-time Danish table tennis champion and is now conquering the literary world. Translated into some twenty languages, Agathe is her first novel.

August 29, 2019
Novel
176 pages
128 × 190 mm
18 €
9782924898352
978-2-9248-9835-2
Translated from the Danish by Inès Jorgensen