Das Leben ist ein wilder Garten

Here you will find the fine observations that touched so deeply in 'The Flicker on the Horizon.' Roland Buti's new novel about life in all its facets.

The tranquil life of landscape gardener Carlo is thrown into turmoil. His wife has left him, and his daughter is now studying in London. Agon, his assistant gardener from Kosovo, a sensitive soul in a hefty body, is beaten up out of the blue. And then suddenly, Carlo's demented mother goes missing. Together with Agon, he sets out on a search and discovers not only the nature and people around him anew but also uncovers the unexpectedly glamorous past of his mother during World War II in a grand hotel in the mountains. We are very close to Roland Buti's characters. Their faces, their movements become familiar to us. We live and feel with them. This is Buti's great art.