Blurb Four women between Germany and Namibia - a great novel about the past that never fades A family story full of secrets and betrayal. A look back into German colonial history. And four women's fates that are closely interwoven. Cosima lives with her husband and daughter in Frankfurt when one day her previously unknown grandmother shows up at the door. Nele von Kavea reveals to her granddaughter that she is the rightful heir to an estate in Namibia. Cosima defends herself against this legacy from colonial times and against the truth that opens up to her during her research on site. Because her great-grandmother Arabella, who arrives in the German colony of South West Africa in 1899, is not the only family member who has kept secrets for decades ... Confronted with her origins and the violence and guilt from another time, Cosima faces the responsibility of her ancestors and the question: What can you hold on to in the present if not to your own past?   Biography (Robert Habeck) Robert Habeck, born in 1969, lives with Andrea Paluch and her four children in Lüneburg. He studied German language and literature and philosophy in Freiburg and Hamburg, among other places, earned his doctorate in Hamburg and worked as a lecturer. Together with his wife, he writes short stories, radio essays, translates mainly English poems and has received several awards. He has written features and children's stories for the radio.   Biography (Andrea Paluch) Andrea Paluch, born in 1970, lives with Robert Habeck and their four children in Lüneburg. She earned her doctorate in Hamburg, worked as a translator mainly of English poems and wrote features and children's stories for radio.