The talk and reading will take place in German.

They have been friends since their school days: Max, the architect, and she, a writer, who has been chronically ill since childhood. Suffering from severe dizzy spells, she is dependent on Max. When he has to go into hospital, her world begins to totter. A novel about a special friendship, a childhood in the post-reunification era in the East and about what it means not to function like everyone else in our society. ‘Fürstenberg's novel tells of sick bodies and delivers many things: a linguistic reassessment, a political search for causes and, last but not least, a declaration of war.’ (WDR 3 Kultur am Mittag)