Herscht 07769

Florian Herscht, a huge, kind-hearted cleaner of building facades in a small town in Thuringia, writes letters to Angela Merkel, signing them only with his name and postcode because the matter is confidential. The story is set in present-day eastern Germany, at once the homeland of Johann Sebastian Bach's music and an ever less secret base of neo-Nazi movements. More and more unexplained and frightening things happen in grey everyday life: strange graffiti at places dedicated to Bach, residents who vanish, a nearly fatal picnic and an explosion, after which further disasters can no longer be stopped.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

432 pages in the original

Genres

Politics, Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Germany, 2010s

First published

2021 by Magvető

Author's age

67 when first published

ISBN

9789631438956 (original)

9780811231534 (New Directions, United States)