Die dünnen Götter

Ache Middler, a rock musician in his sixties, is living in seclusion in Berlin when he receives a letter from a dying woman. Years before, they had spent a night together. Now she asks him to tell his story to their daughter. Ache looks back: to his childhood in Delaware and his drinking mother, to his rise to fame in the glamorously torn-down New York of the 1970s, to the eternal money worries - and to the three women who shaped him. Over decades, "The Thin Gods" follows the contrasts of a life: between swashbuckling masculinity and vulnerability, between independence and love. A novel that pulsates with the intoxication of the underground, electrifying and casually melancholic at the same time.