Eine deutsche Leidenschaft namens Nudelsalat

A loving bridge between East and West. Rafik Schami has been living in Germany for nearly forty years now, and he has not lost his astonished and critical perspective on everyday German life. In his uniquely charming style, he narrates in these partly previously unpublished stories from the years 1990 to 2010 about Germans and their linguistic peculiarities, marvels at the unwavering consistency with which German guests bring homemade pasta salad to invitations, learns that a department store is not a bazaar, reveals why he did not become an American, and almost befriends the talking housefly Subabe. Rafik Schami is a gifted storyteller: with words, he creates images like few others can, conjures up smells and sounds, and makes the atmosphere almost tangible.