“Everything Is Always Perfect” is a strangely melancholic novel that tells a poignant story with delicate humor: about the loss of joy in an orderly world, and about how two children try to cope with it in their own unique way. With Anaïs and Bruno, Julia Weber introduces to literature an extremely moving sibling duo. Everything Is Always Magnificent is her debut novel. It received the Franz Tumler Prize, the Alfred Döblin Medal, and the Konrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize.