Der gläserne Garten: Zwei Novellen

A pair of novellas offers an intimate, lyrical confession by a sixteen-year-old narrator who traces her obsessive love for an older brother and the family's emotional distances. She portrays him as a poet alternately luminous and tormented, and records how music, art, and religious images shape their inner lives while parents remain remote. The narratives move between childhood memories, jealous awe, and anxieties about illness and spiritual longing, using rich symbolic detail and musical references to convey fragility and isolation. The tone balances devotional tenderness with unsettling estrangement, creating a compact study of devotion, artistry, and fragile domestic bonds.