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A political scandal erupts when a terrorist wanted throughout, Oliver Zureck, is fatally wounded in an exchange with border guards and the official report of suicide does not correspond to the eyewitness statements.
When the case gets heavy publicity the effects are far-reaching; the Minister of the Interior resigns and the Attorney General is forced into early retirement. Yet for all the fuss, the case is closed within a few months.
Oliver’s father, however, grows suspicious of the authorities and becomes determined to discover the truth about the death, or possible murder, of his son. Having lived a simple and quiet life with his wife, he had never been able to understand his son’s views and actions, but the former high school principal soon finds himself bent on one thing and one thing only: justice. In his search, he attempts at last to understand his son’s motivation for submerging into the political underground, and begins to uncover what happened on that fateful day when Oliver lost his life.
With concision and force, Christopher Hein relates the tale of a father who sets out to follow the trail of his son and finds himself embarking on a journey that reaches to the core of his beliefs, forcing him to reconsider what had once been sacrosanct.
»Hein’s recent novels Willenbrock and Settlement cemented his status as one of the most important authors now working in Germany. His latest novel is on a more modest scale, focusing on a smaller section of reality, but not without asking the big questions. The result is thoroughly compelling. « Rheinischer Merkur
Christoph Hein, born in 1944, lives in Berlin. He is the author of novels, novellas, short stories, plays, essays and children’s books. His most recent novels were on the Spiegel bestseller list for weeks. His most recent awards include the 2019 Prix du Meilleur livre étranger (for Glückskind mit Vater), the 2019 Samuel Bogumił Linde Prize and the 2017 Grimmelshausen Prize.
Christoph Hein, born in 1944, lives in Berlin. He is the author of novels, novellas, short stories, plays, essays and children’s books. His...
The cast of characters who sleep under the sofa in Jakob Borg’s room sure are a motley crew: there is Snout the donkey, who feels called to be a professor and loves nothing more than a good meal....
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The late 1950s in the divided Germany: as the son of a pastor, 14-year-old Daniel is barred from taking the Abitur, the secondary school leaving examination, in his East German hometown and so he...
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In the small town of Bad Guldenberg the world is still alright. At least until a group of underage immigrants is given accommodation in the Old Seglerheim. The people of Guldenberg agree: The...
He is considered the chronicler of German-German relationships, the precise dissector of a formerly divided nation which still hasn’t found its way back together completely, and as...
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Friedeward loves Wolfgang. And Wolfgang loves Friedeward. They are young, enjoying the summer vacation, cycle the long way to the sea, discuss all the subjects under the sun. They are happy when...
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A brilliant chronicle of the lives of two families in 20th century Germany and Russia. The futile hope for an existence beyond misery and slavery. Encompassing an entire century, reflecting an entire century.
Trutz is a 20th century novel, the one written by novelist Rainer Trutz and the one written by Waldemar Gejm, a professor for mathematics and...
What does Konstantin Boggosch, whom his mother described as »child of fortune«, owe to his father? In Christoph Hein’s new novel, which mobilises all the registers of his storytelling prowess and...
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Ten-year-old Ulla lives with her brothers Karel and Paul, the dog Strolch and her parents. The father is a sculptor, the mother a director and Ulla’s best friend, beautiful and always laughing....
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Leipzig 1968: Historian Dallow is released from prison after twenty-one months. His crime: He filled in as a piano player at a student cabaret and the text that he was asked to accompany with a...
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Thomas was almost a child still at the time, but he remembers the events in sleepy bad Guldenberg in the summer of 1957 very well: how he started working for the gypsies and was punished for it by...
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»I have become invulnerable. I have bathed in dragon’s blood, and no linden leaf anywhere left me unprotected. I can never get out of this skin.« This is the conclusion of the...
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