description: Originally published in 1990, I Lock My Door Upon Myself is the story of Calla, a beautiful, flame-haired, willful girl living in rural upstate New York in the early years of the 20th century. At 17, Calla is married off to a coarse local farmer. Her chance encounter with an itinerant black water-dowser leads to a passionate, obsessive, and doomed love affair, from which she emerges a celibate recluse.
language: German
title: Ich schließe mich selbst ein.
titlecomplete: Ich schließe mich selbst ein.
genres: Literature, American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Female Authors, Adult, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories, Novella
ratings_count: 724
places: Southern Tier, New York, Upstate New York
publisher: Btb Bei Goldmann