Südstern

On the longlist for the German Book Prize 2023 Breaking Bad in Berlin: Vanessa delivers lucky drugs, Deniz patrols. Their encounter opens up the skies above a vibrant city Vanessa is a pharmacologist. She supplies substances that ensure success and happiness. Her customers are athletes, nurses and politicians. Deniz is a patrolman. He works double shifts and cares for his father, who has Parkinson's disease. Every day Vanessa and Deniz look for lost people, but then they meet. A tender, powerful urban novel that asks: How can we withstand the pressure? How do we want to live and how can we love? "His frenzied sense of rhythm is addictive. To our city, to romance!" Julia Franck "Tim Staffel has written an absolutely contemporary hallucinogenic urban novel." Jan Brandt.