jungles

A breathtaking debut about friendship and the power of memory.

He must find him. His best friend, who has always been in pursuit of the extreme - he will never forget how exhilarated Felix stood beside him at the rocky precipice, the cliffs below them jutting out like open knives. Yet even Felix does not seem to be the type to vanish without a trace on a journey in Asia. For the narrator, it is clear: only he can unravel the mystery of this disappearance. He is even willing to risk his great love for it. After all, he shares a special friendship with Felix. And a secret that unites them as much as it divides them. The narrator delves deeper into the wilds of Cambodia in his search, into this never-healing land without memory, desperately sifting through his recollections for a clue about what might have happened. Until he realizes that he can only save his friend if he disappears with him.

“Bang, bang, bang, and then put your head in airplane mode. Friedemann Karig has reinvented the travel novel. But actually, it’s more than a novel; it’s a hymn to youth and wildness. And that is grand.” Max Scharnigg.