Following the outstanding success of the novel Frohburg, which was awarded the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2016, the collected prose of Guntram Vesper is now being published, accompanied by an afterword from the essayist and critic Helmut Böttiger. Nördlich der Liebe und südlich des Hasses is a book about our country and our time. The invented, remembered, and reconstructed stories, the fragments, the short novels, and long anecdotes tell of city and countryside, suburban residents and villagers, neighbors and relatives, of home and foreignness, guns and dreams, idyll and brutality: the German reality and truth of our days. The new volume of the collected works edition presents the texts of the volumes Kriegerdenkmal ganz hinten and Nördlich der Liebe und südlich des Hasses in their entirety, as well as the scattered prose published elsewhere in as complete a form as possible.