Der letzte Ort

A literary thriller about friendship and betrayal. The world around Albert, a German expatriate, has shrunk since he was kidnapped in Iraq. It consists only of what is visible through the rough-hewn yet insurmountable wooden planks of the shed where his captors have imprisoned him. He could never have imagined what it feels like: the fear of dying bound in a stall, swarmed by flies, separated from his translator Osama, his bridge to the foreign culture. Osama, a local from a liberal family, has long since become a friend. In captivity, subjected to the whims of their captors who drag them from place to place, sometimes together and sometimes apart, they began to talk: about the hatred between cultures that starts with thought, and about their own lives. Albert becomes b.