Matthias Altenburg - Landscape with Wolves
Over seven hot June days the protagonist Neuhaus drifts through Frankfurt. More apocalptic vision than creation narrative, the story builds up to the seventh day. The city waits for redemption and the city guide Neuhaus has lost his way. The boarders between day and night blur into one, death and impermanence seep out from all corners of the city, the people are paralysed and Neuhaus falls. Nothing stops him any more and he pushes out of the way those who want to stop him. A big city novel of the 90s - theatening, depressing, full of reality and concealed beauty.
There are a few rosy clouds in the sky, and screaming swallows jagging about below them. If you think about it, life’s not so bad.
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I go to the Romer. I have trouble breathing, and swallow a tablet. I go into the old Nikolaikirche, because it’s the most beautiful church the city has to offer.
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Jan Seghers (Matthias Altenburg) - Far Too Pretty a Girl
Far Too Pretty a Girl is Matthias Altenburg’s exciting first crime novel, written under the pseudonym of Jan Seghers. His chief inspector, Marthaler, has a case to solve, and all the clues are pointing to a certain woman as the culprit.
Marthaler went into the kitchen, filled his espresso maker with water and put it on the hob. Still in his pyjamas, he went down two floors and fetched his newspaper.
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In the yard he unlocked his new bike and pushed it round to the front of the headquarters. He carried it over the tramlines to the other side of the Düsseldorfer Strasse and then rode through the station district, where neon signs were already blinking on the brothels and strip joints.
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The Goethe Tower was a tourist attraction present in every guide book of Frankfurt. And in all of them it stated that it was the highest wooden observation tower in Germany or even in Europe.
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‘I’ve had enough for today,’ said Schilling and wiped the milk foam from his mouth with the back of his hand. ‘I’m driving back to headquarters.’ […]
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Over seven hot June days the protagonist Neuhaus drifts through Frankfurt. More apocalptic vision than creation narrative, the story builds up to the seventh day. The city waits for redemption and the city guide Neuhaus has lost his way. The boarders between day and night blur into one, death and impermanence seep out from all corners of the city, the people are paralysed and Neuhaus falls. Nothing stops him any more and he pushes out of the way those who want to stop him. A big city novel of the 90s - theatening, depressing, full of reality and concealed beauty.
