The Heart, a Wolf A hot Munich summer: While the whole world is at the public pool, including her friend and her child, Nele Kastner sits at her father's deathbed, waiting with him for death. And although death is of course natural, everything feels like theater just before the end. In the lead role: the missing conversation. Because her father can no longer speak, Nele takes over, telling their shared story. Growing up in petit-bourgeois suburban surroundings in the 1980s and 1990s. About psychic fasting and crumb neuroses, first and last times, box runs and family rituals. About what keeps you small and what makes you big. And don't worry – you won't believe how much humor can lie in the final stories. The brilliant debut novel by musician and moderator FIVA (FM4, BR2, 3sat, ZDFkultur), twice nominated for the Grimme Prize. In addictive prose, Nina Sonnenberg tells ruthlessly, tenderly and with disarming wit of suburban youth in the 90s, of family imprints, of life and dying. "A finely and sensitively told story that takes all children of the 80s back to a childhood full of cigarette smoke and Knorr soups." Eva Karl Faltermeier For all readers of Joachim Meyerhoff, Giulia Becker and Stefanie Sargnagel
