History confirms that a town called Rungholt once existed on an island just off the coast of Schleswig-Holstein. Purportedly home to 3,000 people, it sank beneath the sea in a 1362 storm tide known as ...
Seaside light can make reality less harsh. Hazy and diffuse with moisture, bright with reflection, it lends its subjects a particular glow. In “The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls,” her 11th novel, ...
In Hegi’s mesmerizing tale (after Children and Fire) the loss of three children in a freak accident transforms their parents. In 1878, Lotte and Kalle Jansen are walking along the shore with their ...