Orphan, Heidi will live at his grandfather's on an alpine meadow above Maienfeld, Switzerland. While she has acclimated and found new friends, her aunt, who is legally to raise her, returns to find her to live in Frankfurt am Main, where she must keep company with her paralyzed cousin Clara.

Peter Stamm (born January 18, 1963 in Münsterlingen) is a Swiss writer. His prize-winning books have been translated into more than thirty languages. For his entire body of work and his accomplishments in fiction, he was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013, and in 2014 he won the prestigious Friedrich Hölderlin Prize