Uwe Timm’s thoughtful, intense and captivating novel is the story of an incomplete life, full of hopes and ideas of a generation fighting for a better world.
Thomas Linde is hovering. Something is different, but he does not know yet what exactly. Meanwhile his whole life is passing by, stories, memories, pictures, thoughts. Thomas Linde is a jazz critic and speaker at funerals, he has a love affair with the light-designer Iris who is twenty years younger than him. He is working on a funeral speech for Aschenbrenner, one of his combattants of 1967/68 when they wanted to change the world. And in Aschenbrenner´s estate he finds the dynamite meant to blow up the Siegessäule...
