Das Herz, ein Wolf

The magnificent debut novel by the musician and presenter known as Fiva. A hot summer in Munich: While the whole world is at the swimming pool, including her boyfriend and child, Nele Kastner sits by her father's deathbed, waiting for him to pass. And although death is, of course, a natural part of life, everything feels like theater just before the end. The main role: the missing conversation. Since her father can no longer speak, Nele takes it upon herself to tell their shared story. Growing up in the lower-middle-class suburban environment of the 1980s and 1990s. About psychological fasting and crumb neuroses, about firsts and lasts, about family rituals and the things that keep one small and those that make one great. And don't worry – you wouldn't believe how much humor can be found in the final stories.