You Don’t Feel Her
Daniel GlattauerWhat is the price of a human life when it belongs to someone outside your privileged circle?
In his powerful social drama You Don’t Feel Her (Die spürst du nicht), Daniel Glattauer turns his sharp observational gaze toward the moral hypocrisy of the upper middle class. The Binders and the Strobl-Marineks are enjoying an exclusive, sun-drenched holiday in Tuscany. To keep their fourteen-year-old daughter Sophie Luise company, they have invited her school friend Aayana, a young refugee from Somalia. However, the idyll of prosecco and antipasti is shattered by a sudden, unthinkable catastrophe. As the families scramble to protect their reputations and peace of mind, Glattauer exposes the uncomfortable double standards of a society that claims to be compassionate until its own comfort is at stake. It is a gripping, dialogue-driven novel that lends a voice to those the world too often chooses not to "feel."
