Beschreibung (Langtext)

In his long-awaited new novel, renowned German author Ingo Schulze provides a rich and nuanced panorama of a world in transition.

East Germany, January 1990. Enrico Türmer man of the theater, aspiring novelist has turned his back on the art world and joined a startup newspaper. Before long, the former aesthete and rebel becomes obsessed with personal gain, and in a series of letters to his sister, a friend, and a would-be lover, Enrico vividly muses on his capitalist ventures and latent worldly ambitions. As Schulze peels away the layers of Enrico s previous existence, his antihero s reinvention comes to embody all the questionable aspects not only of life in the old Germany, but of life in the Germany just taking form.