Die Überflüssigkeit der Dinge

"A touching coming-of-age novel about love, sex, and guilt." Olga Grjasnowa Ina has settled into a world where no one expects anything from her. With her roommate Falk, she roams the nights in St. Pauli, content with enough sleep, some sex, and gin and tonic. When her mother dies in a car accident, Ina is caught up with a childhood spent in the theater and thoughts of a father she never knew. Now, of all times, he returns to Hamburg to stage Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. And Ina, who finally has something of a plan, takes a temporary job in the theater's canteen. But before she can consider revealing herself to her father, she meets the actress Paula. Ina, who until now has attached her heart neither to things nor to people, gets to know love - and the betrayal of it. "Sleepwalkers know: when they open their eyes, they crash. Steenfatt tells of such eye-opening with dizzying assurance and a brittle wit." Antje Rávik Strubel.