The Scent of Ancient Pears

Sally and Liss couldn't be more different from each other. Sally, seventeen, has just run away. Anorexic, she resents the whole world. Liss, in her fifties, works alone on the farm, in the silence of the fields and vineyards.
By offering hospitality to Sally, Liss unknowingly opens a door to her life. The young girl, who was only supposed to stay one night, finds refuge with a woman different from other adults: no hasty judgments, no suspicious questions.
As they work in the fields, harvest pears, tend to the bees, they timidly begin to open up, to share what sets them apart from others.
In this luminous novel, Ewald Arenz evokes the encounter of two wounded souls who, together, will find their place in the world. A praise of difference and freedom, like the many varieties of fruit that grow in Liss's garden without human hands shaping them, The Scent of Ancient Pears is an ode to nature and friendship.