The World at My Back

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Contemporary issues: an immersive, no-holds-barred memoir of severe mental illness. Compare with Esme Weijun Wang's The Collected Schizophrenias, Susannah Calahan's Brain on Fire, Mary Karr's Lit. Melle is a translator, and the influence of his work on Cormac McCarthy is evident in his forthrightness and brutal honesty. The first autofiction/memoir of its kind in Germany, The World at My Back was a runaway bestseller and has sold nearly 100k copies to date. First published in 2016, foreign rights have since sold in eighteen languages. Melle has been thrice shortlisted for the German Book Prize and won the Franz Hessel Prize, the Berlin Art Prize, and the Klopstock Prize. He studied comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Texas.