Résultats pour "Marlen Haushofer" dans Vie de famille

Left alone for the weekend while her husband and two children are visiting her in-laws, the narrator of KILLING STELLA recounts the addition of her friend’s daughter, Stella, into their already tense and tumultuous household. Staring out the window at her garden, she worries about the baby bird in the linden tree, about her husband, Richard, who flits from one adulterous affair to another, about her son’s gloomy demeanor and her daughter’s obliviousness to everything, and, most of all, she worries about Stella, a confused teenager who has just met a sudden and disastrous end.

I 1950'ernes Østrig gør Anna alt for at opretholde familielivets tilsyneladende normalitet. En dag flytter den 19-årige Stella ind og skal bo hos familien i løbet af et helt skoleår. Selv da Richard får øjnene op for Stellas skønhed og indleder en affære med hende, ser Anna gennem fingrene med det. Og da Stella på tragisk vis kaster sig ud foran en lastbil, går der ikke længe, før Anna får overbevist sig selv om, at alt er tilbage ved det normale.