Klaus Modick tells the story of the writer Lukas Domcik, who wants to cash in on a found manuscript. He repackages Aunt Thea’s memoirs of her youth in the 1930s and ’40s as a novel and claims it was written by Rachel, a young, camera-ready makeup artist he has his eye on. With this unbeatable combination he’s betting on a global bestseller. Yet in the exhilaration of his amour fou Domcik quickly loses sight of the big picture – and his hold on the strings of his attractive marionette…
A trenchant satire of the literary industry – and an enormous reading pleasure!
“[...] precise timing [and] a remarkable sense of situational comedy [...] His aim is to rescue good taste by showing where bad taste can lead.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
