When the eviction of his mother's apartment leads to a mix-up that sends everything of value to the incinerator, the narrator is left literally with only the refuse of his family's history. How did it come to this? The narrator reflects on his family's biography: a family tree of madness. The grandmother is bipolar, with twelve suicide attempts; the grandfather is a regular at Steinhof; the mother is an alcoholic; and the father is depressed. He also examines his own path: a childhood in a working-class neighborhood in Munich, an early fear of going insane, and an escape from the family to distant New York. Years spent in Vienna with Freud in the café. And how he ultimately ends up in an institution – as a psychologist. Through his work with patients, he learns that a person is always more than their illness, that listening is more important than diagnosing. Above all, he soon has to confront the question of what it means to be a normal person. A family history gone awry? A rogue's tale? A lesson in empathy? Leon Engler's debut is all of this and more, a tender act of liberation, the story of reconciliation. "Irresistible. Light-footed and serious, tender and brutal, ironic and honest." SIRI HUSTVEDT.
Language | German |
Genre | Novels + stories |
Author | Leon Engler |
Number of pages | 208 |
Book cover | Hard cover |
Year | 2025 |
Item number | 59043923 |
Publisher | Various Publishers |
Category | Fiction |
Release date | 2.6.2025 |
Sales rank in Category Fiction | 43 of 287326 |
Genre | Novels + stories |
Language | German |
Author | Leon Engler |
Number of pages | 208 |
Edition | 1 |
Book cover | Hard cover |
Year | 2025 |
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Height | 211 mm |
Width | 134 mm |
Length | 21.30 cm |
Width | 14.50 cm |
Height | 2.70 cm |
Weight | 367 g |
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