Two women, centuries apart - united by their desire for self-determination. "Marschlande" is the new novel by bestselling author Jarka Kubsova. In the Hamburg marshlands around the year 1580, Abelke Bleken lives alone on a farm, defying the seasons and tides. She struggles to assert herself against her neighbors in a time when independence for women is life-threatening. Almost five hundred years later, Britta Stoever moves to the marshlands with her husband and children. She has given up her work as a geographer for her family, and her new home still feels foreign to her. She takes long walks through the barren landscape, observes nature, and learns to read the traces of the past in the ditches and dyke lines. In the process, Britta discovers Abelke's life, encountering exclusions and injustices that are alarmingly relevant today. Fascinated, she dives deeper and deeper, realizing how much she learns about herself through the life of the other woman. "Jarka Kubsova tells a furious and stirring story of two women, one living around 1580 and the other in our present, and both destinies beautifully illustrate how small the steps in feminism have been so far. This novel resonates and is top-notch reading material." Daniela Dobernigg, cohendobernigg bookstore. "If I could brew up a good book: This would be it." Maria-Christina Piwowarski.