在杰特（Jette）记事之前她的弟弟埃米尔（Emil）就病了，现在他去世了。失去他使她产生了强烈而混乱的感觉。说得简单一点，就像是有乌云笼罩了她的家人。荒谬的事实是，死后似乎没人知道会发生什么，而大人们常常说得好像他们知道一样。Jens Raschke的《鱼会睡觉吗？》用一个善于观察的10岁小女孩的**人称口吻讲述，诚实地探讨了失去，记忆和寻找答案。 《鱼会睡觉吗？》在票房上取得了突破性的成功，并获得了2012年米尔海默儿童剧院奖和2014年耐多药儿童广播剧奖。《鱼会睡觉吗？》自出版以来一直是德国的畅销书，并已被翻译成多种语言。

Sick since even before Jette can remember, her brother Emil now has died. The feelings that losing him evoke in her are huge and confusing. Most simply, it feels as though a dark raincloud has descended over her family. And then there's the ridiculous fact that nobody seems to know what happens after you die, and yet adults often talk as if they do. Told in the first-person voice of a wry, observant 10-year-old girl, Do Fish Sleep? by Jens Raschke is an honest, darkly funny look into loss, memory, and the search for answers. Originally performed as a one-girl play, Do Fish Sleep? was a breakout success at the box office, and received both the 2012 Mülheimer Children’s Theater Prize and the 2014 MDR Children’s Radio Play Prize. Do Fish Sleep? has been a best-seller in Germany since publication and has been translated into several languages.