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A paper container is on fire. The police accuse little Steffen. But he has done nothing but watch TV in the afternoon. Matthias, a big fan of the British band The Smiths, is about to graduate from high school and knows nothing about himself or his life until he helps the invisible Anne out of her shyness. Varnhagen, future husband of Rahel Varnhagen, has just come from Paris, where he met Napoleon and Chamisso, and ends up at the remote castle of Count Bentheim, who wants to talk to him mainly about love matters. A Jewish family in Berlin trying to flee the Nazis is strongly advised: "Don't go through Bentheim!" After the two Emlichheim novels "Nordwestwärts" (Northwestwards) and "Vogelpark" (Bird Park), Tobias Schwartz now presents a volume of diverse, atmospheric stories, which, set in a wide variety of times, take us back to the Lower Saxony province. His characters are confronted with life. They are ill with it. And they fall ill with the countryside, like Alexander and Eva, whose kindergarten love takes a tragic course. Schwartz tells in warm, humorous tones of fates that will not soon be forgotten.