Jan Faktor

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• Trottel

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  Deutscher Buchpreis 2022 · Shortlist

  Trottel

  AITitle translated by AI:“Idiot”

  Jan Faktor · 71 when first published

  Novel · 396 pages · Family

  AIAI-generated summary:A self-declared fool tells his own life: dropping out of computer science in Prague, moving to East Berlin and its underground scene, starting a family, and living through the GDR and the years after, all shadowed by his son's suicide.

• Georgs Sorgen um die Vergangenheit oder im Reich des heiligen Hodensack-Bimbams von Prag

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  Georgs Sorgen um die Vergangenheit oder im Reich des heiligen Hodensack-Bimbams von Prag

  AITitle translated by AI:“Georg's Worries About the Past, or In the Realm of the Holy Testicle Bimbam of Prague”

  Jan Faktor · 59 when first published

  Novel · 636 pages · Coming of age, Family

  AIAI-generated summary:In socialist Prague, a city losing its shine, Georg uses every opportunity to break out, escaping both his mother and the stifling household of his father, where he has to spend his hated weekends.