Where Love Begins
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Stella is married, she has a child and a fulfilling job. She lives with her young family in a house in the suburbs.
Her life is happy and unremarkable, but she is a little lonely-her husband travels a lot for work and so she is often alone in the house with only her daughter for company. One day a stranger appears at her door, a man Stella’s never seen before. He says he just wants to talk to her, nothing more. She refuses. The next day he comes again. And then the day after that. He will not leave her in peace. When Stella works out that he lives up the road, and tries to confront him, it makes no difference. This is the beginning of a nightmare that slowly and remorselessly escalates.
Where Love Begins is a delicately wrought, deeply sinister novel about how easily the comfortable lives we construct for ourselves can be shattered.
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Margot
Bettauer Dembo
Margot Bettauer Dembo (10 January 1928 – 10 July 2019) was a German-born American translator of fiction and non-fiction. She translated writing from German to English, and is known for her translations of works by Judith Hermann, Robert Gernhardt, Joachim Fest, Ödön von Horvath, Feridun Zaimoglu, and Hermann Kant. Her work has won her the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize and the Goethe-Institut/Berlin Translator’s Prize. She has translated multiple non-fiction memoirs and historical accounts of World War II, as well as several works of fiction.
Margot Bettauer Dembo (10 January 1928 – 10 July 2019) was a German-born American translator of fiction and non-fiction. She translated writing from German to English, and is known for her translations of works by Judith Hermann, Robert Gernhardt, Joachim Fest, Ödön von Horvath, Feridun Zaimoglu, and Hermann Kant. Her work has won her the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize and the Goethe-Institut/Berlin Translator’s Prize. She has translated multiple non-fiction memoirs and historical accounts of World War II, as well as several works of fiction.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
Stella lives a happy life with her family in a suburban house. However, she is often alone with her daughter because her husband travels on business a lot. One day a stranger is standing in front of her door who wants to talk to her. Nothing else. This is repeated from day to day. He does not leave her alone – the beginning of a nightmare. Masterfully composed psychological drama about stalking and how quickly a life can get out of control.