Hamburg, St. Pauli, New Year’s Eve. The wildest night of the year is about to begin in Hamburg’s notorious red-light district. Only Oskar Wrobel would prefer to spend it in bed. But he can’t. His life is falling apart.
He runs a music club in a former hospital at the end of the Reeperbahn. His friends are odd but great people. The girls like him. His life is one big party. But now, it’s all about to end. While fireworks go off in the streets of St. Pauli, preparations are underway for the great demolition party. Oskar has debts and no idea what’s going to become of him. Fortunately, there’s no time left to think about his predicament: a desperate ex-pimp takes over his apartment, his best friend breaks down under the pressure of fame, fun-loving Nina is depressed, chaos descends on the club, and then there’s dead Elvis, the minister of the interior and – Mathilda, Mathilda, Mathilda.
While the hero of the story tries to stay cool, he asks himself: What’s all this about? Why? How do you become a good person? In the Thick of it is the most musical, most romantic and fast-paced coming-of-age novel of all times. A page-turner that shoots readers into the sky with the speed of a rocket – the novel for the young urban generation.
