Der Windfisch

Who hasn't dreamed of turning their back on the suffocating nonsense of our reality and daring to start anew in an exotic land? With his prose debut 'Messers Schneide', Ralf Rothmann once again achieves the feat of capturing this longing for another life in a tense, vividly invigorating language. Guntram Lohser, a photographer from Berlin, endures threateningly painful experiences in Muisne, an Ecuadorian village by the sea, nestled between swampland and coconut palms, which are celebrated in the obscene song of the windfish. A man who no longer feels at home, a fish in the wind, Lohser becomes embroiled in the search and revenge mission of a French Jewish woman against an SS murderer, and finds himself under suspicion of murder. A nightmarish political thriller unfolds.