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What We Are Made Of
Woraus wir gemacht sind
Thomas Hettche (born 1964)
Translated by Shaun Whiteside
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What We Are Made Of
Picador · United Kingdom · 2008 · 311 pages
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Niklas Kalf is writing a biography of the Jewish émigré Eugen Meerkaz and travels to New York with his wife Liz in 2002. Shortly after they arrive, Liz is kidnapped, and Kalf is blackmailed into uncovering a secret about Meerkaz. His search for the truth becomes a journey into the interior of the United States on the eve of the Iraq war. At the same time, far from home, Kalf begins to understand what remains when nothing is certain any more. A thriller with a passive German hero, about old Europe and America, German intellect and American reality.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 319 pages in the original
- Genres
- Crime, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United States, 2002
- First published
- 2006 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch
- Author's age
- 42 when first published
- ISBN
9783462037111 (original)
9780330452076 (Picador, United Kingdom)
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