Uwe Timm’s enchanting novel describes three days and three nights in Berlin during the Midsummer’s Eve festivities, when the artist Christo famously “wrapped“ the German Reichstag in silver fabric.
It’s the story of a man who originally sets out to write about potatoes, but becomes embroiled in a series of hair-raising adventures. Flitting back and forth between east and west, thrown into the cauldron of the city’s diverse social strata and underground scenes and hounded by Tuaregs and techno-babes, arms dealers and hairstylists, our unlikely hero learns all about hope and ephemerality, magic and sensory deception.
