Schwerenöter

In his novel "Schwerenöter", Hanns-Josef Ortheil creates a virtuoso portrait of our post-war society. In it, the author traces the development of the generation that was born shortly after the Second World War, grew up in the fifties, supported the student movement of 1968, and in the following years dispersed into the most diverse camps. An unequal pair of twin brothers appears, who imaginatively repeat two German ways of moving in the world: ecstatically one, melancholically the other ...