Eine runde Sache

Price of the Leipzig Book Fair - "It's sooo well written!" Iljoma Mangold, SWR lesenswert-Quartett. In "Eine runde Sache," two artists from two different centuries travel through linguistic and cultural spaces, always in motion. Experiences of foreignness, identity, life as an artist, and a lot of politics are the major themes of the novel, where the two narrative threads reflect each other. First, Tomer Gardi presents himself, written in German, as a literary character accompanied by the talking German Shepherd Rex and the Elf or even the Erlking, embarking on a fantastical-adventurous odyssey. With slapstick humor, comedy, and many subtle jabs, the wind fills the sails. In the second part of the novel, translated from Hebrew, we follow the 19th-century Indonesian painter Raden Saleh from Java through Europe and back to Asia – a historical novel and at the same time a reflection of our times.