The price of survival
Evelyn Roll, star reporter for the SZ newspaper, had spent years almost obsessively researching the functioning of the brain and memory, as if she had suspected and prepared herself for the day when an artery in her brain would burst. It is almost a miracle that she survived the following emergency surgery and fought her way back to life. In doing so, she reacquaints herself with her own memory because the monster in her head, a pericallosal artery aneurysm, appears to have released what has long been lost: the repressed memories, blind spots and secrets of her family and her own generation. In her brilliant investigation, Evelyn Roll also discovers a part of herself that she had pushed away. A German story about the power of memory.
“My journey into my brain became a journey into myself - I am new-born and I look through new eyes at my family history, blind spots and the grand delusions of my generation.” Evelyn Roll
