Checkout 19 Tsujimura Mizuki free from the expectations and

free from the expectations and burdens of her town’s history

HEINZ LIESBROCK (*1953) was the long-standing director of the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat in Bottrop

Winner of the Books are My Bag Reader's Choice Award

Solzhenitsyn was deported from the USSR

Alec Leamas is tired

Checkout 19 Tsujimura Mizuki free from the expectations and'We read in order to come to life.' With fierce imagination, a woman revisits the moments that shape her life; from crushes on teachers to navigating relationships in a fast paced world; from overhearing her grandmothers' peculiar stories to nurturing her own personal freedom and a boundless love of literature. Fusing fantasy with lived experience, Checkout 19 is a vivid and mesmerising journey through the small traumas and triumphs that define us as