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Title translated by AI:“The Stand-In School”
Kaleb Erdmann · 34 when first published
Novel · 298 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:In 2002, shots are fired at a school in Erfurt on the last day of final exams. The narrator, then eleven, is evacuated with his classmates. More than twenty years later, the event breaks back into his life, and he starts writing about it.