The brilliant second collection of stories from Germany's answer to Zadie Smith. Judith Hermann's first collection, 'The Summer House, Later', sold 250,000 hardbacks in Germany, and was shortlisted for both the IMPAC award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Judith Hermann's first book, 'The Summer House, Later' was described as 'a book about a certain kind of young woman, trying to get a boyfriend, to get some fun out of life, but with a sense of melancholy and a sense of loneliness that seems to define a generation'. Now in Hermann's second collection, 'Nothing but Ghosts', that generation has moved on, grown up perhaps, and the women have indeed found boyfriends but the relationships, described here with painstaking honesty, are all on the turn in some way and have passed their first flush of romantic love. We join many of these characters just as they have stopped communicating; the talking has stopped and the women, with their lives in stasis, have become watchful and disappointed and are starting to turn their gaze elsewhere!

朱迪特·赫尔曼于1970年生于德国柏林。在新闻专业毕业和在纽约一家报社实习后，她获得了艺术学院的阿尔弗莱德一都柏林奖学金。1998年，她的第一本书问世，并受到了不同凡响的评价。同一年，她获得了不来梅市颁发的文学推进奖，1999年获得雨果一伯尔文学奖，2001年获克莱斯文学奖。朱迪特·赫尔曼在柏林生活并创作。