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Book · 2020
Star 111
In the chaotic weeks following the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, an aspiring young poet navigates the underground counterculture of East Berlin's squatted tenements while his parents flee westward to pursue their long-deferred dreams.
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Each sentence follows a melody that corresponds with the narrative, accompanying, complementing, and elevating it. Nothing grates; everything is harmonious, cohesive, and resonant. As a reader, you can simply sink into a bed of words and listen to the multi-layered story unfold.
Tobias Nazemi on Buchrevier It is this mix of magical surrealism and socio-critical scenarios that makes Seiler's novels so irresistible. Clumsy, know-it-all bashing of East Germany from a comfortable thirty-year distance is certainly not his style.
Peter Münder on CulturMag Lutz Seiler has interwoven his great poetic art with exquisite prose to create a novel of exceptional quality in both language and substance, richly deserving the 2020 Leipzig Book Fair Prize. Starlight!
Marina Büttner on Literaturleuchtet The novel thrives on Seiler's convincing ability to create the very special atmosphere of the early 1990s, allowing the reader to truly feel what it must have been like in the subcultural scene in which Carl finds himself.
letteratura on Letteraturblog With 'Stern 111', Seiler has written an atmospherically dense, deeply touching, and linguistically brilliant novel filled with the unique mood of that era. It is about euphoria and a new time full of changes, but also about the estrangement between East and West.
Constanze Matthes on Zeichen & Zeiten
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