book of dead

[12 stories, a literary attempt to dig out human memories regardless of one's own safety]

Germany's "most beautiful books" in 2019

The latest creation from the author of "The Lonely Island" and "The Giraffe's Neck"

●The latest book by the author of "The Lonely Island" and "The Giraffe's Neck" uses twelve essays to tell the story of things that once existed in the world but are now gone forever. He uses paper, ink, and language to summon memories and fight against disappearance.

●With personal writing and endless imagination, this book explores the well-known corners of history, wanders through the remains of human memories, and tells about the charm of blank spaces, the flawlessness of fragments, the appearance of lost objects, and the everlasting words. Narrative.

There is always something missing.

What the eyes see is perfectly complemented by the brain:

The fragments of fragments became a magnificent building,

The deeds of the deceased also become vivid and vivid,

Even brighter and more brilliant than their previous existence.

The history of the world is filled with many things that have long since disappeared, perhaps due to wanton destruction or perhaps lost in the torrent of time. Judith Sharansky's eloquent writing catalogs natural objects and works of art, such as Sapphire's Love Song, the demolished Palace of the Republic, an extinct tiger species, or a sunken island in the Pacific. The protagonists in the story are all bystanders, fighting against disappearance. For example, the old man accumulates human knowledge in the Ticino forest, the ruin painter creates a past that has never existed, and the old Greta Garbo wanders in Manhattan, asking herself why. Possible death at that time, and the author Sharanski looking for traces of East Germany without historical consciousness in the blank space of his own childhood.