Elisabeth von Heyking – Life and Work

Elisabeth von Heyking was an exceptionally cosmopolitan writer—she knew Beijing, New York, and Cairo firsthand and navigated the world of high politics and personal longing. Her epistolary novel, initially published anonymously, became a literary sensation.

This volume combines her fascinating life story with “Letters That Never Reached Him”: a moving tale about a woman who writes to a man who is closer to her than she can openly admit—all while world history intrudes ever more menacingly into her life.

A thoughtful and emotional novel about love, longing, distance, and all the things people can't bring themselves to say to one another.