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Book · 2011
Sand
Set in a North African desert town in 1972, four people are murdered in a hippie commune while an amnesiac man awakens with a head wound and a sock full of sand. Hunted by ruthless operatives and confused local police, he stumbles through an absurd, paranoid underworld in search of his true identity.
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Even though the reviewer remains uncertain for a long time about how the individual episodes connect, he finds the scenes themselves drawn with immense clarity. That keeps him hooked. Herrndorf's "truly extraordinary tone," marrying "the sublime" with the ordinary, also compelled him to keep reading.
Stephan Speicher on Perlentaucher Friedmar Apel honors Wolfgang Herrndorf as a "clever and universally well-read artist" who stages the "futility of human existence as a great artistic feat" in his novels. The reviewer is thoroughly convinced by his desert novel Sand, which takes him in September 1972—at the time of the Munich Olympics hostage crisis—to a Maghreb country reminiscent of Morocco.
Friedmar Apel on Perlentaucher For Rainer Moritz, there is no doubt that he is dealing with one of the "most inventive and stylish authors" in the German-speaking world. He is all too happy to let Herrndorf's "spy thriller parody," brimming with obscurities and "ludicrous dialogues," whisk him away to hot North Africa in 1972 and simultaneously into the cinema, as Sand is also an excursion into literary and film history.
Rainer Moritz on Perlentaucher
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