ALL MY MOTHERS

  • A sensitive and movingly honest exploration of the most formative bond in our lives: the connection to mothers.
  • Recipient of numerous awards and nominated for the German Book Prize: a writer at the height of her artistry.

“Mothers shape us, even if we don't want them to. They nestle in our heads and hearts, whispering to us, scolding, comforting; they continue to do so even after they are gone, and even if we barely knew them. We set our steps upon what we became thanks to or despite our mothers. We carry them within us forever,” writes Lena Gorelik.

Alle meine Mütter tells the story of this special, often lifelong complex relationship and its many facets. It speaks of the mothers we try to be ourselves, how we fail, doubt, stumble, and what fears accompany us; what binds and shapes us, but also what holds us back; what it means to be an unwilling mother or not a mother, to adopt a child, to lose one, or to be unable to let go.

Deepest love, doubt, completely different forms of happiness - the entire cosmos of human relationships comes to light in the first and perhaps closest bond of our lives. This book concerns everyone.

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Hardcover
  • Release: 13.03.2026
  • ISBN: 978-3-498-00762-1
  • 272 Pages
  • Author: Lena Gorelik

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Lena Gorelik , born in 1981 in St. Petersburg, came to Germany in 1992 with her parents. Her debut novel Meine weißen Nächte (2004) brought her into the limelight, her second novel Hochzeit in Jerusalem (2007) was nominated for the German Book Prize. Her novel  Die Listensammlerin  (2013) was distinguished by the Stiftung Ravensburger Verlag. Null bis unendlich was published in 2015, the much-praised novel Mehr Schwarz als Lila from 2017 was nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize. Lena Gorelik lives in Munich with her family.