Papiereltern

At the age of ten, Philippe Daniel Ledermann learns that the people he calls his father and mother are not his parents at all, but his "paper parents". What begins as a childhood trauma actually becomes the start of a turbulent life. In his autobiographical novel, Ledermann traces his life in powerful, richly pictorial language - from his childhood in Meiringen as the son of a master chimney sweep to becoming an internationally renowned dental implantologist - and describes the often painful search for his roots.