A significant novel that stands out in contemporary literature. No one has told a story like this in a long time - Eva Menasse's family saga captures an entire century starting from Vienna. Only what is told remains from the past. Eva Menasse makes remembering the starting point of storytelling and sketches the vivid tales of a Viennese family with Jewish roots, creating a panorama of an era. "My father was a premature birth": headfirst, like the main character, the reader plunges into this novel and experiences how the grandmother almost misses the birth during her bridge game. Thus, the narrator's father is born at home, ruining the precious fur coat and providing the eloquent family with one of their favorite anecdotes. Here, where people constantly talk over each other and rarely agree, the one who tells the funniest story holds the most sway.