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Der zweite Jakob
“The Second Jakob” (title translated by AI)
Norbert Gstrein (born 1961)
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Jakob is a well-known actor, and he dreads what is coming: his sixtieth birthday. Then his daughter asks him: what is the worst thing you have ever done? Jakob remembers a film shoot on the Mexican-American border. He saw the murders of women and the misery there only from a distance, until suddenly he found himself in the middle of something sinister. Ashamed, he longs for happiness in glaring memories and fears his own transience. Why is he never the original, always only a second version? A story about how a life of failure, shame and guilt refuses a simple plot.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 444 pages in the original
- Genres
- Crime (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Mexico, United States
- First published
- 2021 by Carl Hanser Verlag
- Author's age
- 60 when first published
- ISBN
9783446269163 (original)
- More
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