A boy and a girl play football on the Faroe Islands, barely even noticing that they’re falling in love. A father suffers a heart attack while his daughter tries to save a spider on the balcony. A man wakes up with a bicycle chain around his neck, tries to figure out what happened last night and never sets foot in a bar again.
No one has ever written with such concision about the absurdities of welfare dependency: “To get welfare benefits, you have to suffer. It’s the ‘salty plaster’ concept.” This book is about love, farewells, Berlin and our planet, this rough, dirty gem that someone has thrown our way.
Kirsten Fuchs has been delighting audiences on the “Lesebühne” scene of open mic literary events for years. A novelist and playwright, her widely praised work addresses the big questions of existence in a calm way. This book shows the talents of Kirsten Fuchs as a storyteller, offering a series of stories by turns funny, serious, bizarre and brash.
Lighting up the imagination of her readers in a rainbow of vivid colours, her stories offer original and eye-opening perspectives on our times while reaching the heart of important questions in a casual, almost offhand way.
