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Thomas Lehr (born 1957)
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On a sunny August day, a group of visitors comes back up into the daylight from the CERN research centre in Geneva and finds that all of Europe has fallen into an enchanted sleep: time has stopped. The seventy 'chronified', the only ones still moving, find themselves in a traumatic state of loneliness, helplessness and murderous conflict, until after five years world time suddenly ticks on for three precious seconds. A thriller and an end-of-the-world story, a variation on human vanity and desire, and an image of standstill and of people unable to relate to the world around them.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 368 pages in the original
- Genres
- Speculative (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Switzerland
- First published
- 2005 by Aufbau-Verlag
- Author's age
- 48 when first published
- ISBN
9783351030421 (original)
- More
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