When Umberto Eco was asked which woman from the world of art history he would like to spend the evening with, he named Uta Naumburgskaya. The narrator of this story, Nobel laureate Gunther Grass, shares this opinion. During a writer's tour of the GDR in the late 1980s, he sees her along with eleven other donor figures in the Naumburg Cathedral. And since everything is possible on paper, he decides to invite all those in whose likeness the artist created realistic sculptures in the 13th century to dine in his garden. Unexpectedly, the image of Uta meets him really in the present day — in the squares of Cologne, Milan and Frankfurt. Grass follows her everywhere, looking for a meeting. What will she look like to him today? What will they talk about?The story, originally conceived as a chapter for the book "The Onion of Memory," was discovered in the Grass archive by his collaborator Hilke Ozoling recently. Now, after the author's death, this novel, illustrated by the author's graphics, has been published.