Überm Rauschen: Ein Buch für die Stadt - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3406610412 ISBN 13: 9783406610417

Synopsis

Once the father and brothers went fishing together, the noise of the weir behind the restaurant in the Eifel where they lived has enlived the brothers' childhood with clues and fantasies. But the father, who was always looking for a giant, mythical primeval fish while fishing, has long been dead. And the older brother Hermann has been picked up, had to go to the clinic, he has lost his mind, his fate is uncertain.
The younger brother, the first-person narrator, has returned to the place of childhood to help the family, stands in the river, fishing, and lets the brother's life, his own, that happen to the family. The childhood by the river, the first love, the chewy guests of the parental hospitality, the brother's outbreak attempts, the decline of the pub, the river and the fish, the death of the Dutch occasional lover of the brother and the unexplained question of his own biological father - exhausted and yet overawake, the narrator tries to escape from the memories and conversation. observations to establish a connection, find an explanation.
Norbert Scheuer's novel "Überm Rauschen" develops an enormous suction with its accurate and poetic language. Grief and beauty of a whole world are born through this suggestive story, whose protagonists are at the same time looking for happiness with their search for the great mythical fish. And happiness is there, in the noise, in the wistful power of storytelling.

Edition details

• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3406610412
• ISBN 13: 9783406610417
• Binding: Paperback