What if one turned their back on everything familiar, just like that? And embraced the unheard?

A pub on the outskirts of the city, the Hellersdorfer Perle. A woman in her mid-thirties who wants to change her life and leave her certainties behind. An encounter with a man who is different from anyone she has met before. Katja Oskamp tells a story of longing and passion, of desire and power, and of a world on the fringes of the big city that defies norms and mediocrity.

"It is a small miracle that Katja Oskamp manages to make this modern fairy tale of a new life, with all its quirky elements, plausible. The Hellersdorfer Perle is not cool or trendy, but rough, shabby, and mundane. And that is precisely the wit of the novel.".