Das Geheimnis der verlorenen Zeit

One of the great novels of recent American literary history A cucumber manufacturer and hobby physicist from the imperial and royal era discovers the secret of time - and of time travel! Unfortunately, it is lost again in a moment. Three generations later, his great-grandson Waldemar Tolliver sits in a bubble of suspended time in a littered New York apartment. In order to return to the normal world, he searches in the past: among generations of Tollivers - geniuses, criminals, losers, visionaries - who did not rest to reveal the family secret. Can Waldemar become master of his history again? Can anyone?.