On Wanting to Hold On and Having to Let Go
Elke Rutzenhöfer’s daughter Ella fought her way back to life after a brain tumour and resumed her university studies. But then she suffers a relapse. Mother and daughter are left with only a few months to grasp the unspeakable, before Ella falls asleep forever surrounded by her loved ones and in her mother’s arms. A fate that leaves one speechless – yet Elke Rutzenhöfer finds the words in this profoundly personal book. Words for the incomprehensible suffering, the unbridled anger and the bitterness she feels. And for a mother’s almost incomparable love for her child: »I could feel what it is like when you want to give up your own life for that of a loved one. That is an existential truth I can still immerse myself in today.«
A true story of wanting to hold on and having to let go, which captivates through its literary quality and emotional depth. A testament to profound love and those tiny glimmers of hope that make it possible to go on living.
