The old king in his exile

What is important? What makes our lives worth living? Arno Geiger tells the story of his father, who is slowly losing his memories and whose sense of orientation in the present is fading. Open, loving, and cheerful, he begins to get to know his father anew; he walks with him through the landscape where they both spent their childhood, listens to his seemingly nonsensical yet often wonderfully poetic sentences, and recounts the father’s present and past as well as his own childhood in the village. It is a bright, vibrant, and often humorous book about a life that is still profoundly worth living and that perhaps differs only slightly from the life we all lead every day.