The famous Swiss writer and playwright Peter Stamm (b. 1963) chose a quote from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an epigraph to this collection of short stories: 'He looked out of the window and saw a lot of people in some unfamiliar garden; he immediately recognized some of them.'The heroes of the stories are wanderers and dreamers. The participant of the auto show Henry goes with a troupe of artists and dreams of meeting an extraordinary girl. Eric goes to work in Latvia. Regina, after her husband's death, left in a large empty house, dreams of making it full again, as in her youth, and of a journey that she will definitely make again.They live in America and Switzerland. They work in England and Latvia. They meet in a Lisbon bar. And all of them are constantly waiting. Waiting for the train, or love, or the return of a neighbor whose garden blooms without ceasing.Peter Stamm always manages to say more in a few words than others on three hundred pages.'Stuttgart Zeitung'