The address book provides a comprehensive guide to the people, places, and objects of the four-volume novel "Anniversaries: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl" by Uwe Johnson. The reference book also offers suggestions for reading, for paths and detours on Johnson's literary journey into the dynamic New York present of the years 1967/1968, as well as into the history of a Mecklenburg village and a family since the Weimar Republic. The page numbers refer to the single-volume editions from 2000 and 2008, as well as to the new four-volume paperback edition of the novel from 2013.