Since the March morning when I broke through the ice of Lake Lyck, Siegfried Lenz recalls, I have had a special relationship with water - a kind of twilight homesickness connects me to it. Just as water thematically runs through his life, it is also present in his literary work. Lenz's novels and stories take place on the sea and along the coasts, on beaches, in ports, and on ships; his characters are often fishermen, anglers, dockworkers, or sailors. This volume gathers Lenz's most beautiful texts about rivers, seas, and lakes.