Judith Herman belongs to those lucky authors whose fame came with their first book. Her debut collection, Summer House, Later, was critically acclaimed in 1999, selling more than 200,000 copies and being translated into 17 languages. She is a winner of the Kleist Prize and other prestigious literary awards in Germany. The heroes of the stories “Summer House, Later” are approximately thirty years old, they are all in a kind of transitional period, reminiscent of a pause between study and work, in a situation of change and choice of the future. These are stories about love and restlessness, about what has come true and what has not come true.