The World at My Back
Melle, Thomas / von Flotow, Luise Contemporary issues: an immersive, no-holds-barred memoir of severe mental illness. Compare with Esme Weijun Wang's The Collected Schizophrenias, Susannah Calahan's Brain on Fire, Mary Karr's Lit. Melle is a translator, and the influence of his work on Cormac McCarthy is evident in his forthrightness and brutal honesty.
The first autofiction/memoir of its kind in Germany, The World at My Back was a runaway bestseller and has sold nearly 100k ...