Wo das Meer beginnt

German Book Prize 2016 for Bodo Kirchhoff. Who am I when I desire? And what boundaries do I cross in the process? These are cardinal questions for Viktor Haberland since an incident at the end of his school years involving Tizia, his partner in the rehearsals for A Midsummer Night's Dream. Back then, only an old, solitary teacher stood up for the boy. Now, Haberland is in his early thirties and is preparing an evening for a German cultural institute in Lisbon, to which Tizia unexpectedly responds. For the first time, Viktor reads the notes of the conversations his old teacher had with him back then. A masterfully told novel about love and Eros, about the tension between body and language, and about situations of boundary crossing.