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150 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 17, 2018


The book is not one of those overhyped bestsellers, but rather a quiet, somewhat meditative novel, that's difficult to sell. The story is virtually impossible to summarise, and if we tried to do so, no one would want to buy it.
When it was published during the summer, we sort of infected each other. One of us would read it, find the right words to describe it, then another few colleagues would read it, and they would also find it just as nice.
Then, after having started to recommend the book, the first few clients would come back, looking downright transfigured: "I want something like it again, exactly like it". They would buy it again, for a friend, and that's how you found yourself a new bestseller. One that no one had heard of before. Not a Ferrante, nor a Meyerhoff, or a Kehlmann, an unknown author from Berlin, who had invented a story about a small village from the Westerwald.
It's crazy, but it's precisely these books, these surprises, that make us love our job.
“Könnten Sie das ein bisschen einpacken?” Wir fragten uns schon lange nicht mehr, was ein bisschen einpacken bedeuten soll. Einen kleinen Papierstreifen über das Buch kleben? Ein Stück Papier lose herumwickeln? Nur eine Schleife darumbinden, ohne Papier?