Leben ist ein unregelmässiges Verb

About friendship, loss, and the comfort of memory

A commune of dropouts in the countryside, 1980: The authorities discover four children who have grown up hidden from the world. Their fates are reduced to headlines, yet Frida, Ringo, Leander, and Linus are primarily individuals with their own stories. Thrown from isolation into reality, they gaze around in wonder. And they live the most diverse lives in countless places: in foster families and boarding schools, on islands and mountains, as haters and lovers. How do the lost find their way in the world? In his uniquely tender and laconic tone, Rolf Lappert tells in this grand novel how one distances oneself from childhood without ever leaving it behind.