Helena Adler’s anti-home novel “Fretten”: news from the dark side – literature

Author Helena Adler leaves no doubt about the dire situation of her main character. She has “cystitis feet”, under which the floorboards “bulge, as if the dead were digging their graves”. Beef cuts are simmering on the kitchen stove, not the fine ones, the mother drums into the child: “There are only those who wear aprons and those who hunt aprons.”