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Monde vor der Landung
“Moons Before the Landing” (title translated by AI)
Clemens Setz (born 1982)
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Worms, in the early 1920s. Peter Bender, a former lieutenant in the German air force, makes a name for himself as the founder of a new religious community and the prophet of the so-called hollow-earth theory: humanity lives not on but inside a sphere, and nothing exists outside it. His congregation stays small, but he is sentenced to several months in prison for spreading seditious and blasphemous pamphlets. The novel follows the inner life of this early conspiracy thinker without mocking or excusing him: his insincerity towards his devoted followers, his coldness towards his Jewish wife and his secret lover, and the darkening Germany around them.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 519 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany, 1920s–1940s
- First published
- 2023 by Suhrkamp Verlag
- Author's age
- 41 when first published
- ISBN
9783518431092 (original)
- More
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