When the Nerves Burn

It seems like an ordinary day at the Weidenhof nursing home.

Sebastian works as the daily caregiver to Hannes Hartmann, a man living with multiple sclerosis. He becomes Hannes’s voice — and his final bridge to the world of the living.

But why does Hannes want to marry Klara, a severely disabled woman, when neither of them can hardly leave their care beds anymore?
Why does a quiet jealousy grow inside Carola, Sebastian’s wife — even though she knows the shared past between Sebastian and Hannes?
And why does Amanda search for her true father of all places in a nursing home?

Piece by piece, a mosaic unfolds — a story of memories, missed chances, and unspoken love.
A novel about what holds us together when everything threatens to fall
love that needs no words, friendship that survives even forgetting, and a final spark of meaning that continues to glow beyond death.

For readers of Jojo Moyes, Paulo Coelho, and Khaled Hosseini — a moving story about illness, the search for meaning, and the quiet power of love.



Bekim Caushi was born in Kosovo in 1987 and came to Germany as a child.
Shaped by experiences of displacement, illness, loss, and the search for meaning, he writes deeply moving novels about what holds people together on the inside — love, friendship, memory, and forgiveness.

His debut novel, When the Nerves Burn, is a literary homage to a beloved person and a call for humanity.