Penguin Karlmann

The trade secrets of an ordinary man. On his wedding day, Karlmann "Charly" Renn feels like a winner. He has married his dream woman, and Boris Becker wins Wimbledon. Everything seems possible. Michael Kleeberg's novel illuminates the family and friends, the love and work of his hero with such relentless precision that the banality of everyday life reveals its hidden fascination. A book about time and what it does to people. Kleeberg employs literary means to conduct nothing less than an anthropology of masculinity. Charlie Renn is, after all, an everyman, a man one believes to know. One who desires, seeks, functions, conforms, and dreams of escape. But the way the author observes and dissects him, he has never been seen like this before. The first volume of the great Karlmann trilogy, followed by the novels "Vaterjahre" and "Dämmerung," opens a literary exploration of the epochs that spans from the 1980s to our present day.