THE CONSOLATION OF BEAUTY – A Quest

• The new poignant literary essay by the bestselling author!
• A moving account from within, expanding our perspective on the world around us and its transience, giving us the courage to endure ambivalence.
• 50,000 copies sold!
• More than 90,000 copies sold of her previous Spiegel bestseller!
• English sample translation available.

Embracing the present with open awareness.
Fearlessly accepting what is. Remembering the past as a part of our journey.

Finding comfort. In a world that can be so overwhelming, frightening, and demanding. Finding solace in the experience of beauty because, as Gabriele von Arnim says, it is nothing less than self-preservation. "I need beauty. The consolation of beauty. Because when I see, hear, read, feel beauty, I believe in possibilities. In paths, spaces, somersaults."

Der Trost der Schönheit is a shimmering blend of autobiographical and essayistic storytelling: not a cultural history seeking to confine its subject with theory, but rather a literary search for traces. Gabriele von Arnim explores the forms and effects of what we call beauty, the happiness and dark sides of sensitivity. The search takes us back to childhood, to a girl from a coldly managed home who must first learn to feel in order to perceive beauty in all its finite abundance.