Eber im Nebel

Luxembourg's number one satirist ventures into the animal kingdom in this book – and all the realms just beside it: the last wild boars of Prenzlauer Berg, lonely giant tortoises, mutated blue tits, and defensive silverfish. But also a tragicomic ghost named Florian comes under Kirps' attentive observation. From the Galapagos Islands to the Luxembourg countryside, where a cat rediscovers its hunting instinct, to Berlin, where the legendary Spreewald pygmies are said to dwell, Francis Kirps takes readers on a surreal journey through the world of animals and humans. He is abducted by bizarre rodent aliens to the planet Moleskin II, encounters an undead stand-up comedian, and travels back to his not-so-eventful childhood. What really happened in Chernobyl back then? What role did Haribo gummy bears play in the Miracle of Bern? How does the species of vaccine shamans live? What happens when songbirds remember their dinosaur heritage? And what the hell is a Moschops anyway? These and many other questions are answered in "Boar in the Fog" with only occasionally exuberant imagination.