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Die Sonnenposition
“The Position of the Sun” (title translated by AI)
Marion Poschmann (born 1969)
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After reunification, the psychiatrist Altfried Janich takes a job at the 'Ostschloss', a run-down baroque palace in eastern Germany that houses a psychiatric institution. Towards his patients he takes up the 'sun position', offering them orientation and comfort. When his friend Odilo dies in a mysterious car accident, Janich himself slides onto the night side of things. By day the patients come too close; by night he wanders the halls like a ghost. Memories torment him, and his family history catches up with him, in a portrait of a country where present and past, East and West, the beautiful and the ugly shape each other.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 337 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany, 1990s
- First published
- 2013 by Suhrkamp Verlag
- Author's age
- 44 when first published
- ISBN
9783518424018 (original)
- More
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