The protagonist and her best friend seem to want to stay out of politics. Die Zeit described it as a political pamphlet disguised as a thriller, and that certainly fits the bill. I suppose you could even read the poem as a sort of dystopian political thriller.īecause that is what Leere Herzen is. I’d forgotten that Braunschweig is Brunswick in English, but as soon as I remembered, the Pied Piper of Hamelin echoed in my head: “Hamelin town’s in Brunswick, by famous Hanover city…” That makes sense, as being led astray is a big part of both stories. A bit like Black Mirror, perhaps.īut the location of this book couldn’t really be anywhere else but Germany, and a decent-sized city in Northern Germany at that. The year is not that far into the future, near enough that it could almost be now, but far away enough that it really couldn’t, at least one hopes not.
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