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Claudia Starik is nineteen and suffers under the totally normal everyday life of a high-school graduate: authoritative teachers, disrupted family circumstances, love, fashion, upcoming exams and climate change. She has an ally in her grandfather, who is not only different from everyone else in terms of appearance: Konstantin Starik is a widower, ex-entrepreneur, Communist and millionaire.
Claudia supports him in the battle against the complexities of modern technology; in return he helps her in all matters relating to the impositions of imperialism, the education malaise and all other matters of life requiring courage. As Konstantin knows, history does not happen, it is made, and consequently he gives his granddaughter an unusual trip as a present for passing her school-leaving exam: As researchers and spies the two set out on a dangerous expedition into the cold, to the location of the world’s largest high-frequency antenna complex. Situated close to the magnetic North Pole HAARP is the pride of American technocrats and – perhaps the military’s secret project for manipulating the weather and global communication?
Dath’s new novel follows his young protagonist in the dialog with something that can think but is not human, to the place where logic and belief, army and church, man and sun, weapon and weather collide
Maybe there is a god after all. What if he doesn’t like us?
A German movie director flees from an exhausting love affair. His sister is suspected by the government of being a radical Islamist planning an attack. His best friend from childhood days is a priest fighting the devil. And a woman who knows all three of them, but is more than a mere human, opens the door to the...
Tomorrow, everything is going to be better: Since the Age of Enlightenment, this slogan identifies disciples of social progress, while those of the dark ages bark about how everything was better in the olden days. Some bank on science and technology to enhance freedom, wealth, education, and beauty, others on tradition, blood, land, family, fatherland, and other such ancestral chatter so that...
Dietmar Dath, »the most productive and most radical writer in Germany« (Thomas Lindemann, Die Welt) on the revolutionary democrat Rosa Luxemburg.
Denmark (Rosenkilde)
Turkey (Yazilama Yayinevi)
US paperback edition (DoppelHouse), Italy (Nero Editions), Serbia (VBZ), Turkey (Is Kültür)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (Seagull)
»I only produce shit nowadays,« reads a diary entry by Arno Schmidt, meaning: journalistic texts for newspapers. Since 1990, Dietmar Dath has published heaps of – well: journalistic, satirical, and essayistic texts and by doing so has created his very own fan base.
Like very few others, he manages to connect Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Bourdieu, pop culture to...
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»Dear Sonja,« David writes in these enlightening and desperate letters to a revered classmate from days long gone, »looking back isn’t always the best idea: Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land. But Lot’s...