Malibu Orange

What is a good life? Two friends meet again, but a guy called Volker gets in the way. A fast-paced and tragicomic story about friendship Imagine you've just quit your job, move back to your hometown, live in your old childhood bedroom again in your early 30s, finally meet your best friend and she doesn't come alone, but with Volker. And with Volker come some changes, at first it's just his homemade granola that your best friend suddenly likes, although she never liked granola, she gets paler and thinner, hardly answers messages, then she quits her job, drops out of university and moves with Volker to a mountain farm with no wireless network. What would you do? Ulrike Haidacher is a master of exaggeration, purposefully leading her characters to ruin, dismantling platitudes and beliefs. What is actually a good life and who decides that? A novel that sensationally combines comedy and tragedy. Cover by Katharina Maya Mair.