El día en que aprendí a volar

Spain - Catalonia / Edicions 1984

Transations rights for Spanish World, Brazil and Portugal: MB

Translations rights elsewhere: Kiepenheuer & Witsch

«Through a style reminiscent of the adventurous and overwhelming novels by the great Latin American narrators such as Mario Vargas Llosa and Isabel Allende. A powerful scenery, yet free from sentimentalism and prejudice.»
Sächsische Zeitung

«An enthralling and mesmerising family saga.»
Deutsche Presse Agentur

«A story that is tragic yet makes the reader really happy, written in a very melodic language.»
Freundin

«An engrossing narrative on migration, family and identity.»
Buecherrezension.com

«Extremely colourful and humorous [...] Kremser takes the reader on a journey to the lost El Dorado, filled with unsatiable, wanderlusty dreams of happiness and freedom.»
Mannheimer Morgen

«A highly entertaining and thoughtful novel about identity and what it is that defines us.»
Feinerbuchstoffwordpress.com

A warm-hearted novel that explores the extraordinary consequences of emigration, the desire to find one’s own roots, and the persistence of family legends.

Luisa’s life began with a bang: Her mother Aza threw her out of the window of the hospital in Munich where she was born and then disappeared without a word. Only thanks to an Englishman named Fergus her life didn’t end the same day it began. Her father Paul, helpless and heartbroken, has to nevertheless get on with his life now that he has a baby to take care of. Why did Aza do it? Where did she go? Those are questions he doesn’t dare to ask. Only as a growing Luisa begins to show an interest in her mother’s story and a long lost letter from Aza turns up, Paul realises that he needs to understand what happened in order to get closure for himself and his daughter.

Their journey of discovery will take them to Brazil, via a small Bavarian village where more than a century ago a group of villagers took off for America. They ended up in Brazil where they recreated their Bavarian village in the jungle stone by stone. And it’s from there that many years later a young woman name Aza departed for Germany in search of her roots. Now Paul and Luisa are going back to this Brazilian-Bavarian village to find some answers –and maybe even Aza.