Hasenprosa

A book like a childhood summer, extravagant, wide open, and radiantly beautiful. "If this is all there is, I'm leaving," one exclaims, setting off in her hiking boots and travel socks. In the back seat: a rabbit. It takes us on a journey through time, eras, and out into the pitch-black universe. In a sketchy plane through the sky and memory: of two grandmothers, one bright, one dark, one whole, one wounded. A grandfather, his rough hands. A brother and his tree. Of racing dreams, crooked fairy tales, and a Purple Rain. Maren Kames' rabbit prose is quicksilver and heartfelt. It is full of punk, punk, punk and tenderness. Delicately spun tales stand alongside a precisely captured perception of the world. We hear Glenn Gould and Billie Eilish, see Lionel Messi dribbling through the universe, and rappel down from fixed stars with the rabbit. A book like a childhood summer, extravagant, wide open, and radiantly beautiful.