The stories in this triptych are about responsibility and the problems of conscience that each one of us must solve if we are to discover the deepest meaning of life.[...]

Driven by fear of her encroaching death, an elderly woman writes a letter to her granddaughter, in the shape of a diary. Part love-letter and part confession, it is above all a bequest of advice for life from a woman at last brave enough to acknowledge that she has too long repressed her feelings.[...]

Marta is raised by her grandmother in her house in Trieste, a haven of stories, books and enchantment. She knows that her mother died when she was young, and she believes that her father is a Turkish prince. But, as she grows older and this tale disintegrates, Marta feels anger towards her grandmoth[...]

Als Susanna Tamaro 1994 Geh, wohin dein Herz dich trägt veröffentlicht, ist sie so gut wie unbekannt. Das Buch wird zum Weltbestseller. Die 80-jährige Olga legt Rechenschaft ab über ihr Leben. In nie abgeschickten Briefen an ihre Enkelin Marta, die nach Amerika gegangen ist, erzählt s[...]